More Developer Money to Nexus PAC

Nexus PAC received a $10,000 contribution on January 12, 2026, from developer Paric Holdings. The PAC is the legal money laundry for lobbyists at Nexus Group.

Some redevelopments in St. Louis City involving Paric include The Victor (Butler Brothers Building), One Cardinal Way luxury apartments, Alexander Lofts luxury lofts, all in Downtown, and Robert Place Lofts (Enright School) and adjacent luxury homes in Visitation Park. I believe all the projects involved corporate welfare.

The PAC is run by attorney Matthew McBride, who serves on many St. Louis City economic development boards that authorize corporate welfare.

Since 2023, Paric has sent $100,000 to Nexus PAC for redistribution, legal money laundering.

This is another update to Sinquefields Donate to Nexus PAC. Again. There is a running list of donors and beneficiaries (both St. Louis City and around the state and other state), at that link.

Nexus PAC Update. Money to Bosley Charity Intrigue.

Screenshot of Nexus PAC contribution to Communities First

Screenshot of 2025 nonprofit filingat Missouri Secretary of State for Communities First

Screenshot of landing page for Citizens for LaKeySha Bosley campaign account registration at Missouri Ethics Commission

January 2026 campaign finance reports are trickling in to Missouri Ethics Commission and there’s an update to Sinquefields Donate to Nexus PAC. Again.

The January report for Nexus PAC shows two contributions to St. Louis City accounts and eight to campaigns elsewhere in Missouri as well as Illinois and South Carolina.

Nexus PAC is the legal money laundry for Nexus Group lobbyists. The PAC is run by attorney Matthew McBride, who serves on many St. Louis City economic development boards that authorize corporate welfare.

Screenshot of landing page for Citizens for Brandon Bosley campaign account at Missouri Ethics Commission

Screenshot of some 2018 campaign finance expenditures using address of 1428 Salisbury

St. Louis City State Rep Nick Kimble received $500 from Nexus PAC and there was a peculiar $1,000 contribution to Communities First at 1428 Salisbury.

It’s peculiar because the $1,000 was reported given to Communities First as a campaign contribution, not a charitable donation.

The organization is registered as a nonprofit with Missouri Secretaary of State. It is not registered as a political action committee with Missouri Ethics Commission.

Communities First is a Bosley Family charity. Their website does not have any information on its Board and Staff page.

But we know from corporation records and internet searches that Lucinda Frazier is registered agent and heads the nonprofit. She is 14th Ward (and before redistricting, longtime 3rd Ward) Democratic Committeewoman and Chief Deputy Recorder for St. Louis City Recorder Michael Butler, who also serves on the Board for Communities First.

Frazier is also widow of former Alder Freeman Bosley Sr and matriarch of the Bosley political family, mother to State Rep LaKeySha Bosley, a.k.a. LaKeySha Frazier-Bosley, and former Alder Brandon Bosley.

Both LaKeySha Bosley and Brandon Bosley use the 1428 Salisbury address for their campaign committees.

LaKeySha Bosley also uses it for her address on her campaign account and works with Communities First, possibly as an employee either currently or previously.

As a state legislator, she also worked for Recorder Butler at Open Concept, his now shuttered all you can drink for one price bar.

1428 Salisbury has also been used as an address for former 3rd Ward and Bosley Family related campaign workers on MEC Reports.

In 2023, I wrote about some of Brandon Bosley’s campaign finance problems here.

In December 2025, the Missouri Ethics Commission fined Brandon Bosley nearly $50,000 for campaign finance violations.

More Data Center Money Went to Mayor Spencer

On February 22nd, Rodney H. Thomas, of Armory data center developer THO Investments, donated $12,500 to Spencer’s PAC.

In addition to data center developer Jerald Kent donating $80,000 over the past two years to 21st Century St. Louis PAC, the legal money laundry for Greater St. Louis, he made donations to other campaign committees.

On February 20th of this year, twelve days before the St. Louis City mayoral primary election, Kent gave $25,000 to A Brighter Future for St Louis PAC, the pac for now Mayor Cara Spencer. That money helped fund media buys, negative advertising against incumbent Mayor Tishaura Jones.

As earlier reported, he also donated the max of $2,600 to the then 8th Ward Alder and candidate for Mayor on the same day.

Kent is the Chairman and CEO of Tierpoint and Cequel 3, data center developers. It’s highly likely Kent and/or his attorneys influenced, if not actually the author or put stamp of approval on, Mayor Spencer’s Executive Order 92 on data centers.

Transparency Fail. Spencer’s PAC also received $4,000 on March 31st from John M Baragiola III, his occupation/employer is identified on the April quarterly campaign report as “NA/ — Retired.” Baragiola is actually President and owner of Falcon Technologies, a company that sells materials for IT infrastructure. He also gets farm subsidies.

Campaign $ and Millennium Hotel Deal

Cha Ching graphic with floating paper money

March 10th , 2025, A Brighter Future for St Louis PAC received $50,000 from The Lamar Johnson Collaborative, the architectural firm now working with Bob Clark’s Clayco and Gateway Arch Park Foundation on redevelopment of former Millennium Hotel. It’s Mayor Cara Spencer’s PAC, a way around campaign finance contribution limits.

Clayco contributed a total of $130,674.60 to the PAC in January-February. Those monies helped fund mailings produced by Mike Kelley‘s Show Me Victories and negative media against then Mayor Tishuara Jones.

Clark donated the maximum $2,600 to both Spencer and now Comptroller Donna Baringer this year. But he also donated $10,000 February 25th to 71 Percent PAC run by Kelley Group/Show Me Victories, political consultants.

The 71 Percent PAC paid $77,897.24 to Show Me Victories for digital ads and mailings supporting and opposing candidates. It supported the election of Spencer and Baringer as well as re-election of 11th Ward Alder Laura Keyes and losing 7th Ward Alder candidate Cedric Redmond. It opposed the re-election of Mayor Jones and Comptroller Darlene Green as well as 7th Alder Alisha Sonnier.

Board Bill Number
39 In Session
2025-2026
Chapter 99 Redevelopment Plan for 200 South
4th St. Redevelopment Area

Summary

This Board Bill seeks to approve a Chapter 99
Redevelopment Plan and Blighting Study for the 200 South
4th St. Redevelopment Area. The proposed Bill also allows
for use of eminent domain within the area for all properties. This Board Bill will allow for up to a 20-year tax
abatement at 90 percent.

In 2019, then Alder Spencer co-sponsored Charter amendments against concealment of campaign donor true identity ( Board Bill 41) and against candidates accepting funds from donors seeking City contracts (Board Bill 40). Neither made it to the ballot.

In September, the Board of Alders passed and Spencer signed a redevelopment plan for Millennium Hotel. Board Bill 39 provides for 20 years of tax abatement (making St. Louis public school children pay for redevelopment), per Bill Summary on City website as of 12/29/2025, on the project as well as eminent domain use.

Updated 12/29/2025 to reflect tax abatement information from official bill Summary, not me comparing the 105 page Introduced bill to the 104 Committee Substitute bill. If Summary is wrong, that’s not on me.