Roy Moore's salary from foundation draws scrutiny
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was promised a $180,000 a year salary in the five years he was president of a Montgomery-based charity, and the Foundation for Moral Law created a separate bank account and an unconventional vehicle to pay Moore, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
AL.com previously reported on the foundation taking out a second mortgage to pay Moore $465,000 in back pay at the same time it unsuccessfully fought a breach of contract lawsuit from a company that helped the charity raised funds.
Moore's salary from 2007-2012 didn't jibe with the foundation's tax records, and the Post discovered that the judge's salary had been under-reported.
The Post report outlines how the foundation's board, which includes Moore's wife, Kayla Moore, agreed to pay Moore the $180,000 a year salary, and drew up a promissory note for years where fundraising fell short of that mark. The note also entitled Moore to a $565,000 stake in the foundation's headquarters on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, which would allow Moore to recoup the money by selling the building. Kayla Moore recused herself from the decision.
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See how much fun it can be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Moral_Law
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The IRS granted the group tax-exempt status in 2005. As of August 2017, the Foundation had not filed Form 990s for 2015 or 2016.
From 2005 through 2013, Roy Moore and his family drew $1,030,875 from the Foundation for Moral Law. In 2016, Kayla Moore earned more than $10,000 as president of the foundation. In the 2017 Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate, these payments became the focus of television attack ads against Moore, a candidate for the Republican nomination.
