The New York Post reports:

Mike Huckabee is being backed by a bizarre upstate group that has been denounced as a cult, The Post has learned.

Records show Huckabee raked in $20,000 from Sara Bronfman, the Seagram liquor heiress and high-profile devotee of the NXIVM group.

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Bronfman made the donation to Hope for America, a political action committee set up in Virginia by Huckabee, according to that state’s public records.

Albany-based NXIVM bills itself as an executive-training program, but detractors have said it is a “cult.”

Read the full article.

UPDATE: Sara Bronfman has also given to Hillary’s campaign, according to the FundRace data base.

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