March 17, 2017
WELFARE QUEEN:
White nationalist gets his money from cotton fields - and the government (Lance Williams / March 17, 2017, Mother Jones)
Spencer, along with his mother and sister, are absentee landlords of 5,200 acres of cotton and corn fields in an impoverished, largely African American region of Louisiana, according to records examined by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The farms, controlled by multiple family-owned businesses, are worth millions: A 1,600-acre parcel sold for $4.3 million in 2012.The Spencer family's farms also are subsidized heavily by the federal government. From 2008 through 2015, the Spencers received $2 million in U.S. farm subsidy payments, according to federal data.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 17, 2017 2:55 PM