New financial disclosures show that the Mercer family, who have funded Breitbart and are close with former White House aide Steve Bannon, gave James O'Keefe's Project Veritas a large donation in 2012.
According to formerly unpublished tax forms acquired by BuzzFeed News, Robert and Rebekah Mercer's "investment vehicle," Gravitas Maximus LLC, gave Project Veritas $25,000 in 2012.
"The filings draw yet another connection in the web of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer, who recently stepped down from his role as co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies after a BuzzFeed News exposé revealed the connections among the Mercers, Breitbart, and white nationalists and neo-Nazis," the report notes.
Project Veritas gained even more notoriety earlier this week after a woman associated with the group credited for their "creatively-edited" videos infiltrating liberal groups tried to peddle a fake story to the The Washington Post accusing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of impregnating her as a teen.
