Anonymous Donors: Rick Snyder

Rick Snyder: The New Energy to Reinvest and Diversify, or NERD, fund is being replaced with a fund that will "go far and above" legal requirements by disclosing donors, the amounts given and an overview of expenditures, Snyder's spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said Monday. She said while the Republican governor has full confidence that the legal NERD fund met compliance and reporting requirements, criticism "had simply become an unnecessary distraction.", according to Times Colonist. The fund was created primarily to lessen the "financial burdens of government." The money has been spent to upgrade a press auditorium in his Lansing office and cover travel expenses of staffers, among other things and LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder is dissolving a non-profit fund that came under scrutiny because money from anonymous donors was used to pay one of his top aides and some expenses for Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager. Snyder will not make public the donors who contributed nearly $1.7 million in 2011 and 2012 because, at the time, the parameters were such that they could be anonymous, Wurfel said. The non-profit social welfare organization had a roughly $230,000 balance at the end of 2012, according to its most recent IRS filing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.