Richard Kofoed, a serial entrepreneur from California, seems like a large shot on social media. One particular picture reveals him sipping unusual bourbons, like Previous Rip Van Winkle and George T. Stagg, with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in the Trump International Lodge in Washington, D.C. A further image captures him mingling with Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy. A third submit shows Kofoed and his wife, Stacy, posing with a line of useless pheasants they hunted with Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota. Then there’s the shot that just about every challenging-core Trump supporter needs: a photo of Kofoed and his family members standing along with a beaming Donald Trump, who is flashing his signature thumbs up. “The beneath put up truly sums it up for me in 2020!” Kofoed wrote in the caption.

Social media doesn’t always tell the whole tale. In truth, Kofoed started out 2020 by filing for personalized bankruptcy. When the pandemic was surging two months afterwards, he commenced a enterprise and began functioning with two other organizations to promote particular protecting products. One of those small business associates ended up filing a lawsuit against Kofoed, alleging that he embezzled millions and used it to fund his lavish lifestyle.

By the conclude of 2020, Kofoed had donated more than $800,000 of dollars and air travel to Republicans. He then reportedly shepherded Kim Guilfoyle out of D.C. on a personal jet on January 6. To top it off, he moved into a person of Donald Trump’s Palm Seashore residences, correct following door to Mar-a-Lago.

Kofoed and his lawyers acknowledged getting Forbes’ inquiries, but Kofoed and his lawyers did not tackle any of the allegations described in this short article. In court docket filings in the civil accommodate, Kofoed denied…