BH Group
BH Group is a Limited Liability Corporation registered in Virginia in August 2016. It is the sister group of the BH Fund and is closely related to the Wellspring Committee and the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. It is an employer of Leonard Leo. Funding. Between 2016 and 2018, the BH Group received $4 million from the Judicial Crisis Network, the Judicial Education Project, and the Wellspring Committee. It has been described as a shell company, a pass-through vehicle, or a "a cipher, and likely was set up solely to prevent disclosure of the actual donor’s  name." In November 2017, the Wellspring Committee filed tax documents showing a $750,000 payment to BH Group firm for “Public Relations.” The BH Group does not appear to marketed itself as a public relations firm, has no known website, and does not that advertise its services. Similarly, Wellspring Committee, a nonprofit, has no known public-facing operations, no website for publicizing them and three employees. In 2018, the BH Group received nearly $919,000 from the Wellspring Committee, the primary funder of the Judicial Crisis Network. In 2018, the Judicial Crisis Network also reported paying BH Group $1.2  million in consulting fees. In 2018, the Rule of Law Trust paid the BH Group $4,000,000 for consulting services. The Rule of Law Trust is an $80,000,000 trust with no employees; its sole trustee is Leonard Leo. Known activities. It is connected to the non-profit BH Fund, which has received $24,250,000 from a single unknown donor, and has donated more than $3 million to the Freedom and Opportunity Fund and America Engaged. The BH Fund is responsible for enforcing a donation agreement between a secret $20 million donor and the Antonin Scalia Law School  at George Mason University. In December 2016, BH Group donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. The Honest Elections Project, an alias of the Judicial Education Project/Judicial Crisis Network, has also paid money to the BH Group. The Honest Election Project, which has expressed the view that voter suppression is a "myth," has filed court briefs "in favor of voting restrictions" in Nevada, Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. As The Guardian notes, "By having a hand in both voting litigation and the judges on the federal bench, this network could create a system where conservative donors  have an avenue to both oppose voting rights and appoint judges to back that effort." Known Employees. Leonard Leo is an employee of the BH Group and the President of the BH Fund.