Laurel Libby Refuses to Re-pay $57,000 in Stolen Funds, Quits Her Dinner Table Action PAC
A MAGA conman donated $100,000 of purloined dollars to Maine GOP lawmakers (and wannabes) who haven’t returned a single cent.
Laurel Libby — the Auburn lawmaker who made national news this spring for doxxing a trans Maine high school athlete and then being censured by the Legislature — is all about the Benjamins. Since her entry into politics, via her OG 2020 election, Libby has raised over $2.4 million for various PACs she’s involved with, plus her own campaign war chest. And her single biggest overall financial supporter is Edwin Brant Frost IV, a 67-year-old Christian-Nationalist shyster from Georgia who bilked millions from MAGA investors.
We’ll get back to the list of Maine politicians who benefited from Frost’s largesse in a minute. Especially to focus on Libby and her workmate Alex Titcomb, who received the largest share of the stolen cash, although none of that money is paying for the undynamic duo’s latest crusade: the voter suppressive Question 1 featured on Maine’s November ballot. (A dark money magician named Leonard Leo is footing that bill.)
First, let’s examine the illustrative tale of a sanctimonious grifter who used his Christian Patriot persona to hoodwink millions of bucks out of listeners of right-wing podcasts, including the Charlie Kirk Show. Here are the deets of the $140 million scheme: Frost’s company, First Liberty Building & Loan, advertised on conservative media and targeted self-identified “patriots,” promoting excellent returns on money put into “investment programs” that supposedly bankrolled high interest bridge loans made to small businesses.
Frost — and his son, Edwin Brant Frost V (both fellas dropped the ‘Edwin’ and go by ‘Brant’) who just resigned from his position as vice chair of the Georgia GOP — promised their “brothers and sisters in liberty” annual returns of “8 to 18 percent” according to court documents, on “loan participation agreements and promissory notes … with the interest rate paid increasing based on the size of the investment, and investment tiers starting at $25,000.”
Spoiler alert: Dude was lying. While running the grifty loan company, Frost blew many millions of investor cash on jewelry, rare coins, credit cards and political donations. Also, according to court records, Frost spent at least $240,000 on vacation rentals for his family in Kennebunkport, which shows the priciness of Maine’s coastal real estate. It’s gotten so expensive that even multi-millionaire Ponzi-schemers in the “Patriot Economy” can’t afford to buy.
Also, the Frosts used their right-wing Christian personas to help sell the grift. Brant-the-elder served on the board of the “Wednesday Warriors,” an IRS-recognized “church.” And First Liberty’s YouTube page is filled with promotional vids of the orgs and ministries that Frost claimed to support. Their faux-Christian business spiel was also spread by pastors across Georgia and beyond. Such as a glowing endorsement of First Liberty Building & Loan by Pastor Joel Balin on his ministry’s blog. (Balin, btw, also happens to be CEO of the above-mentioned “Wednesday Warriors,” church.)
You can read the entire complaint about the conman, brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, here. The bulk of the money is likely long gone and unrecoverable, squandered on luxury. Except for the over million bucks in political donations the Frosts made since converting the “bridge loan program” into a pyramid scheme in 2021.
On June 27, 2025, Frost suddenly shut down the operation and put some word salad on the First Liberty Building & Loan website, addressed to “To All First Liberty Constituents,” which said, in short, that all the investment programs were “indefinitely suspended.” All repayments, interest, dividends, etc were suddenly not a thing. Also, “no one at the company will be available to answer phone calls or respond to email inquiries. First Liberty hopes to provide additional information and updates in the near future regarding the status of the company’s efforts to effectuate an orderly wind-up of the business.”
By early July, the feds filed the case and raided offices, seizing the company’s computers, remaining cash and assets. First Liberty Building & Loan and Frost’s associated corporate entities were officially out-of-business.
Soon after, Frost issued an apology. “I take full responsibility for my actions and am resolved to spend the rest of my life trying to repay as much as I can to the many people I misled and let down,” Frost said in a statement, released by his lawyers. “I will be cooperating with the receiver and federal authorities.”
And if you believe him, I’ve got a bridge to Matinicus for sale. Cheap.
In the immediate wake of the Ponzi scandal, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, issued a statement urging “any political entity that accepted contributions to return those contributions to the court-appointed receiver so that victims of the alleged fraud may be made whole.”
In late July, a federal judge appointed S. Gregory Hays as the “receiver,” for the mess, tasking Hays with managing First Liberty’s financials, including trying to recover the stolen loot.
“Georgia politicians have returned over $300K,” Hays told me last week. “I have not seen any payments from Maine. We have not sent demand letters on all donations, but will get to that soon.”
So, in addition to Libby, the following Mainers should be checking their mailboxes for envelopes bearing an Atlanta, Georgia postmark: State Rep. Reagan Paul, former state Senator Eric Brakey, failed NASCAR candidate Austin “Snitch” Theriault, plus ex-State House candidates Elizabeth Jorden and Amy Bell. And the Dinner Table Action and Fight For Freedom PACs, plus the Maine Republican Party, should check their PO boxes for the demand letter from the court-appointed receiver as well.
The Maine media, for some reason, has ignored this story about thievin’ pols. Apparently they’d rather report on Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s penchant for cussing, shit-posting and garbage tattoos. Or how an angel dramatically rescued GOP leader Billy Bob Faulkingham after he flipped his boat while shooting vids for the socials and nearly killed his sternman. (Ooops. The Maine media ignored the angelic rescue of that lying pol as well!)
I’ll give the Bangor Daily News a modicum of credit. On August 5, a mere 26 days after the news broke on July 10th, they published a story, written by David Wickert and Charles Minshew of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but merely bylined in the BDN as “by Tribune Content Agency” about the Ponzi scheme that briefly mentions Maine’s connection to the scandal. In that story, Libby’s best boy Titcomb, aka Dinner Table Action’s executive director, said Frost’s donations had already been spent.
“The money was contributed in 2022, so the money is long gone,” Titcomb told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We do not have the money currently to pay that back if we wanted to or are legally required to.”
Also, according to the reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, published by the BDN, Frost also contributed $60,000 to the Maine Republican Party. However, I’ve searched the state, federal and other campaign finance databases and only found a $10k gift from the conman to the Maine Republican Party.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting, though, failed to mention the local legislative recipients of Frost’s plunder.
You’d think the Bangor Daily — or another Maine media entity — would’ve followed up on the “stolen money for local politicians” angle. However, recent staff cuts have decimated Maine’s newsrooms and apparently this scandal didn’t reach the threshold to merit assigning someone to investigate.
Understandable, I guess. Campaign finance journalism isn’t easy or cheap. Takes a long time to sort through finance reports and, often, the job is mind-bogglingly boring. Searching long lists of names, donations and expenses in the hope of finding a smoking gun can be a Herculean and often fruitless task.
I actually stumbled across this whole Frost saga, btw, because I was perusing the Dinner Table’s financials while investigating salacious rumors emanating from the Capitol Dome. The scuttlebutt, the specifics yet unconfirmed, regarded some romantic troubles in Dinner Table Action paradise. That’s why I was digging around the Christo-PAC’s financial records filed with the Maine Election Commission, looking at hotel receipts and airline ticket purchases trying to piece together a puzzle.
And that’s when I noticed that Edwin Frost was the largest contributor to Libby’s legislative races. Also, Frost was Dinner Table’s second largest total contributor, ever, just behind “For Our Future,” the PAC run by her homeboy Titcomb, but mostly funded with $375,000 in dark-money from judical-fash-man Leo Leo, who owns a rundown shack on Mount Desert Island.
I didn’t know who Edwin Brant Frost IV was, but Google did. And the fella’s notoriety was enough to get me digging through all sorts of Dinner Table Action receipts. And that’s when I found two documents filed at the end of July that showed — via the omission of her name — that Libby was no longer associated with the group.
Which was surprising. The Dinner Table was Libby’s baby. She started the PAC with Titcomb back in 2021. Until July 29, she was on-file as “decision maker and fundraiser” for Dinner Table Action. And it doesn’t appear the omission of her name was a mistake. Because the day after the first doc removing Libby from the org was filed, Dinner Table filed yet another registration change. Libby’s name was still missing, but this form included the following addition to the oppose/support tabs. “The Dinner Table opposes candidates or causes that infringe upon limited government, free enterprise, personal responsibility and individual liberty. The Dinner Table supports candidates or causes that advance limited government, free enterprise, personal responsibility and individual liberty.”
I only noticed the removal of Libby’s name, btw, because these PAC registrations are usually filed just once annually, unless a major change is made in a org. And in 2025, Dinner Table, however, filed four of ‘em.
Follow the money
Gotta admit, Maine’s campaign finance database isn’t the most intuitive platform on the web. Nor is it the best designed database or the most easily navigated. That being said, there’s a lot of info to be had, if you’ve got time on your hands and not prone to fits of rage when encountering numbers that confirm money in politics is out-of-control. And, sadly, probably uncontrollable.
Consider Libby’s political monies. Like the aforementioned cumulative $2.4 million Libby has raised for her campaign and her PACs in Maine. Foremost, until she apparently quit in late July, was Dinner Table Action, which raised over a million bucks since 2022.
A brief aside for those lucky enough to be unfamiliar with Dinner Table Action: The PAC’s mission was to elect enough End Times whackjobs to the Maine Legislature to gain control of the State House. And they spent tons of cash on various local races in 2022 and ’24, but failed and just fell short of their goal of capturing the Government Mountain as part of the Seven Mountain Mandate, the wet dream of modern American Christian-Nationalists. Short version: The Christo-Chuds seize control of society to trigger the return of Jesus Christ.
Not kidding. I’ve written about the Seven Mountain Mandate here and here. I also wrote about (and attended) a prayer service with these thousands of these End Timers gathered on Capitol Park in Augusta last summer.
Guns and Money for God
Btw, in addition to taking donations from Georgia con artists, Dinner Table and Libby herself have utilized an odd way of raising extra cash for their Christo-fash enterprises: The gun raffle. Basically, they raffle off a gift card to a gun shop, rather than the actual gun. But, as good Christians, they like to show the gun that the winner could buy. And then sell $2,750 worth of raffle tickets for $1,300 roscoe. After all, that’s what Jesus would do.
I’ve lost track of how many chud gun auctions I’ve seen, but Libby and Dinner Table definitely have done the most. In the video below, Libby is promoting the raffle of a Sig Sauer P365. No money even required for this drawing. To enter, hopefuls just had to provide their contact info to Libby’s PAC-machines. Also, this particular handgun is an interesting choice for a contest, since Sig Sauer is facing multiple lawsuits (including by a Maine cop) over the gun discharging WITHOUT the trigger being pulled.
As for Titcomb’s claim that Dinner Table Action doesn’t have the dinero to refund the conman’s gift, that’s simply a lie. According to the PAC’s latest filing on Oct. 6, Dinner Table Action has $92,278 on hand. Which means they could pay the $50,480 back and still have almost $42,000 left in the bank to buy guns or pay Titcomb’s salary. Pretty sure that’s what Jesus would do.
In June 2023, Frost also gave $5,000, under aegis of “First Liberty Building and Loan” to “Fight for Freedom,” Libby’s so-called leadership PAC, which she has in partnership with her sidekick Titcomb. As of today, “Fight for Freedom” has $65,860 on hand. In other words, Libby could pay back the stolen five large and still have sixty Gs leftover.
FYI: Just like with Dinner Table Action, Frost took second place on “Fight for Freedom’s” leaderboard, using his corporate entity to make the contribution. Once again, “For Our Freedom” gave the most — $102,000 — of Leo Leo’s hard earned cash.
Libby’s personal 2024 legislative campaign also benefited from Frost’s largesse, receiving $950. That coinage makes the Georgian ripoff-man the all-time number 1 donor to Libby’s legislative races. While those numbers ain’t nuthin’ compared to PAC revenues, State House races don’t usually raise tons of cash.
Except for Libby’s, that is. Her 2024 campaign took in $132,128, but after election day, she still had $50k in the bank. And that’s even after paying her right-hand man Titcomb, via his “Ignite Strategies, LLC” for “Personnel and campaign staff, consulting, and independent contractor costs” at the bargain basement price of $5,000.
Just a couple weeks after the 2024 election, Libby took the leftover cash and started her ’26 campaign account, with Titcomb as treasurer, and has, currently, $116,746 on hand. And the largest expense, so far, was to Titcomb’s Ignite Strategies, LLC. Leaving more than enough to repay the thousand bucks given to her 2024 campaign by Frost that he stole from unsuspecting Patriots.
All that to say, Libby and her various bank accounts, have lots of cash. And she could pay back all the donated loot conned out of the now-poor MAGA investors in the blink of a Stepfordian eye.
But she hasn’t.
And neither have the other Mainers who received funding from the Georgia Christo-Con-Artist.
According to campaign finance records, Rep. Reagan Paul received $2,850 in pilfered funds from Frost and his family for her 2024 race. Her campaign account is still active with a current balance of $15,163. Which means the state rep from Winterport could pony up the cake to pay the debt, as I’m sure her Savior would prefer.
Failed CD2 congressional candidate Austin “Snitch” Theriault received a hundred bucks shy of ten grand, $9,900, from the southern gentleman thief. On Aug. 20, 2024, Frost wrote a check to Theriault for $3,300. A couple months later, on Oct. 16, Frost’s wife Krista gave “Snitch” another $3,300. A week later, Frost’s son (aka “V”) contributed an additional $3,300. That means the former NASCAR driver is currently in possession of lots of ill gotten monies. According to FEC records, Theriault had $14,746.55 in the bank after paying all the bills connected to his $3.6 million failed attempt to unset Rep. Jared Golden.
That $14,746.55 means Theriault could pay back the stolen funds and still have $4,846 left. Or, to put it in a way the former racecar driver might understand, he’d have enough to purchase 147 diecast models of his former racecar.
For more on Theriault’s “Snitch” nickname, read the Crash Report below, detailing the FAILSON’s rat-habit.
Other People’s Money
Another failed GOP candidate, Elizabeth Jorden of Kennebunkport who ran for (and lost) the District 134 seat twice, also received $1,200 in cash from the Frost family. Her campaign bank accounts, which are still active according to state records, have a balance of $4,426.62. Theoretically, she could pay back the conman’s victims and still have over $3,200 to devote to her next attempt to lose a State House race.
Amy Bell from Sanford, the GOP candidate who lost her bid for House District 142 by 64 votes to Anne-Marie Mastraccio, took $950 from Frost and his wife. Bell’s campaign account is now closed, according to state records, but not before she gave $1,997 to “Wings with The Word, Inc,” the “flying ministry” owned and operated by her husband Pastor Todd Bell, of Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford. He’s the fella responsible for the infamous “super-spreader” wedding in Millinocket that resulted in COVID outbreak with hundreds sick and least 8 deaths in 2020.
I took a quick look at the latest IRS 990 for “Wings for The World,” which is registered as an airplane “church” that Bell uses to fly all over Maine, “planting” new chapters of his End Times cult. According to the 990 filed in 2023, the charity had almost $15,000 in the bank after paying almost $94,000 in fuel, maintenance costs and other expenses connected to his trio of airplanes and hanger in Sanford. So perhaps that man-of-God, and proprietor of multiple churches in Maine, would find it in his heart (and wallet) to return the moolah, donated by his wife, that was stolen from Patriots.
While a couple more donations may have slipped through the cracks of my investigation, let’s talk about another local fav of Frost and company: the now former Maine politician, Eric Brakey who fled Maine last year after securing gainful employment as the executive director of the Libertarian cult’s “Free State Project.”
When Brakey ran for state Senate in 2022, the Frosts donated $850 to his efforts. In 2023, when Brakey launched his bid for re-election in 2024, the Frosts gave $950 in stolen money on Sept. 12, 2023. A month later, on Oct. 10, the Frosts gave $700 to Brakey’s “Free Maine Campaign” PAC, making the father-son duo the third biggest contributor to the Free Maine Campaign, founded in 2023 by Brakey and his mom, Lucinda Brakey, in order “to protect the freedoms and paychecks of Maine people.”
On Dec. 1, 2023, Brakey announced that he was abandoning the Maine Senate to take the executive director gig for the Free State Project. He’d remain in the Senate for the rest of his term, but abandoned his re-election bid. According to state records, he never refunded campaign contributions, including the $2,500 in stolen cash that came via Frost’s financial skullduggery.
A quick look-see at Brakey’s PAC filings for that time makes things a tiny bit more interesting. For instance, the largest contributor to the Free Maine Campaign was Titcomb’s “For Our Future” PAC, which gave Brakey $30,000 on August 27, 2024. (FoF’s largest funder: the aforementioned Leonard Leo.) That’s while Brakey was working in New Hampshire for “Free State Project” and a member of the Maine Senate.
A week later, Brakey’s PAC gave $25,000 to Titcomb and Libby’s Dinner Table Action PAC.
The other five grand, according to state records, paid for Brakey’s trip to the 2024 GOP convention in Milwaukee. So, in a roundabout way, Leonard Leo paid for Brakey’s $1,489 stay at The Wildwood Lodge in Pewaukee, plus his Vietnamese takeout, his bar tabs at Fat Tuesdays and his Uber back to the airport. So while serving as both a Maine state Senator and the boss of a Libertarian non-profit in New Hampshire, Brakey apparently funneled cash (or laundered) from Titcomb PAC to Titcomb PAC in exchange for five grand in Leo-Leo Bucks.
Wut?
By Election Day 2024, Brakey had resigned from his Senate seat and officially moved to the Granite State, just in time to register to vote and cast his ballot for Donald J Trump.
Now, according to state campaign finance records, the Free Maine Campaign PAC has been “terminated,” so there’s no hope that the Libertarian Leader’s PAC will repay the money stolen from the Liberty-loving investors who gave First Liberty Building and Loan their life savings. The same goes for the monies donated to Brakey’s personal campaigns: long gone.
If Brakey and the rest of these politicians were honorable, though, they’d find ways to refund the contributions.
It’s not like Brakey is penniless. He’s earning close to $70,000 from his gig in the non-profit sector, plus anything he can grift from his podcast sponsors. And he was able to afford a zipline adventure in Honduras earlier this month as part of a Royal Carribean cruise.
That trip, though, ended on a sour note for Brakey, who claimed he’d been detained at the Florida border for an extra 90 minutes because his bag looked “heavy” and because of his political beliefs.
Brakey, who voted for Trump twice, was not happy with his treatment at the border. Apparently, guards only let him enter the U.S. after he explained both Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and the tome The Creature from Jekyll Island to passersby. Just kidding. After the former state senator asked for a clarification on his rights as a U.S. citizen, he was told, according to Brakey, “they did not need a warrant for anything in my possession, including all my electronics.”
After being “detained” for 90 minutes, border guards, thankfully, allowed Brakey to re-enter the U.S.
Liberty Libby
It’s fair to say that Libby owes her political success to Brakey. After all, it was Brakey who accompanied Libby on her unmasked door-knocking campaign back in the fall of 2020. Brakey — after getting his ass kicked by Angus King in the 2018 U.S. Senate and then placing third in a three-way primary for the 2020 race for CD District 2 — was on break from elected office and happy to help.
Before Brakey introduced her around his ‘hood, Libby was just another anti-vaxxer, former nurse and part-time interior decorator. But with Brakey’s blessing, Libby was canonized as a beacon of “Liberty” and won her seat.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens in ’26, provided she’s still living in the same district.
Even more interesting than Libby’s meteoric rise in chud-circles is Titcomb’s success, riding the Libby coattails to a lucrative career as a political operative and fundraiser. Before starting his collaborations with Libby, Titcomb’s only political experience was volunteering for the Ron Paul campaign when he was a young lad.
For her 2020 bid for the State House, Titcomb donated $350 and his occupation was listed as “Keystone Masonry,” which is the name of a local hardscaping company. During that same campaign, though, he apparently did “work” as a “political consultant” in order to receive $1,595 payments from Libby. And after her victory, she paid Titcomb an additional $2,075, apparently for “phones and polling” and further “political consulting.”
Now, five short years later, the 33-year-old married father of two, is pulling in a six-figure annual paycheck, spewing voter fraud disinfo to suppress the vote as part of the plot to get End Times chuds into elective office in order to trigger Armageddon. And the money to pay for Titcomb’s wisdom (and a gazillion roadside signs) comes from the dark money entity “Republican State Leadership Committee”, which is funded by the aforementioned Leonard Leo.
So, in short, Titcomb is making bread from “Dinner Table Action” and “For Our Future” and “Fight for Freedom” all via Leo Leo’s Concord Fund. Plus he’s earning bank via “Voter ID for Me.” All funded — in a major way — by the architect of MAGA Daddy’s anti-American, Christo-Fash Supreme Court. And it’s hard to come up with an exact grand total, due to the multiple PACS, payees etc, but Titcomb appears to be earning at least $125k for his politicking.
Oddly, the “Voter ID for Me” registration has Titcomb listed — repeatedly — as “Ms.” I’m assuming that’s a mistake and that’s he is a biological male. And while Libby isn’t mentioned on the “Voter ID for Me’s reg — which is considered a Ballot Question Committee, not a PAC — her 2024 financial disclosure as a lawmaker reveals she is the “fundraiser/Decision Maker” for the Voter ID BQC.
Titcomb’s success is quite the accomplishment for a kid born and raised in a Russian orphanage, magically rescued in 1998, at age 6, and adopted by a 57-year-old Christian minister and his decade-younger wife with a home church in the Sagadahoc County town of Bowdoin. His origin tale is testament to good luck, privilege and the American Experience. Where else could a person born in a far-distant land, come to the U.S. under fundamentalist religious pretenses, attend local colleges (Central Maine Community and University of Southern Maine) and end up being a political operative, linked to an elected bigot (Libby) AND a Dark Money knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Leo) in a lame attempt to limit voter access?
To her credit, Libby doesn’t seem to be using the Culture War to enrich herself. Other than for food, travel and sundry expenses. For Libby, her pay comes in the form of the more valuable social media currency of likes, shares and subscribers. And, perhaps, if she can keep her nose clean: Higher Office.
Libby and Titcomb share — among other things — the ability to network and fundraise, and aren’t shy when it comes time to beg for cash from the deepest dark money pockets.
And their endeavors haven’t gone unnoticed. Just last month, for instance, the pair were honored for their efforts by “Club For Growth Foundation.” Libby was presented with the 2025 “Courage Under Fire” award during a gala at the Club’s “Fall Seminar & Alumni Reunion” in Washington, D.C. At the same event, Titcomb was awarded the Club’s “Fellow of the Year” for his work with Dinner Table Action to reduce voting access and other electoral goals of the Christo-Fash movement.
It’s nuts that Libby and Titcomb and the others act like they don’t have to refund the ill-gotten lucre from Edwin Brant Frost IV. Campaign contributions are often returned, especially when it’s discovered that the donor is sketchy or has a shady past. And in the case of Libby, et al, the “donations” are actually stolen cash, which should make writing a check a no-brainer.
I mean, even Snitch Theriault can figure out how to issue a refund check. Not for the victims of the First Liberty Building and Loan scam, though. After his 2024 defeat, according to federal records, Theriault rebated, for an unknown reason, $3,300 to Robert Rowling, the billionaire who owns the Omni Hotels chain.
Regardless, Libby and Titcomb still have plenty of Leo-Leo Bucks in the bank. But I wouldn’t bet a patriot dollar that the Christo-Cons will do the right thing and try to make good on their “Brother-in-Liberty’s” sins.
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Where in the article does it say Libby "refused" to pay back the money? I see failed, but not overtly refused.