Mitch Landrieu made $660,000 in two years from his racial justice nonprofit

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Post-mayoral life has been lucrative for Mitch Landrieu, according to financial disclosures he filed with the White House last month.

Landrieu, whom President Joe Biden appointed to oversee federal infrastructure spending, made almost $2 million over the last two years, largely in salary from the nonprofit he heads and from his consulting firm.

The former New Orleans mayor also listed thousands of dollars in income from speaking fees, providing political commentary for CNN and his salary as a fellow at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.

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A significant source of Landrieu's income was the nonprofit he founded, the E Pluribus Unum Fund. That organization, which he started after the fights over taking down monuments to Confederate leaders and a White supremacist militia in 2015, is aimed at promoting racial equity in the South.

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For 2020 and 2021, the nonprofit paid Landrieu a total of $662,500 in salary.

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That filing showed the organization raised about $2.4 million in 2018 and did not specify how much it paid to individual employees. The filing also did not specify where the money came from.

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Landrieu took in another $1 million during those two years from his position as president of First Day LLC, a Baton Rouge-based consulting firm. The financial disclosure does not specify the firm's clients, though Landrieu listed himself as a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Emerson Collective elsewhere on the form.

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In the last year, Landrieu also received $25,000 apiece from Harvard and the University of Chicago for serving as a fellow in their Institute of Politics programs and indicated he had made more than $5,000 a year in speaking fees from the Washington Speakers Bureau. Separately, he said he had made more than $5,000 from political commentary for Turner Broadcasting, which owns CNN, and from speaking fees from the University of Michigan and from Blue Meridian, a philanthropic group in New York City.

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