Gavin Newsom Accused of Corruption Over $20M Diaper Deal

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing yet another scandal - this time involving alleged corruption tied to $20 million in taxpayer money, which is being used to fund the state’s new “free diapers” initiative. Here’s the kicker: the eight-figure deal involves a nonprofit led by a woman associated with Newsom’s wife.

Newsom’s Dirty Diaper Deal

Just before Mother’s Day, Newsom announced a first-of-its-kind state program that provides newborns with 400 free diapers before they leave the hospital. The Golden State is working with Baby2Baby, a nonprofit that provides diapers, clothing, and other basic necessities to children in need across the nation.

Baby2Baby’s co-CEO is Norah Weinstein, who just so happens to sit on the board of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s California Partners Project, another non-profit that claims to champion “gender equity across the state” and ensure California’s “media and technology industries are a force for good in the lives of all children.” The connection is raising eyebrows in part because Siebel Newsom has been caught in similarly not-so-coincidental – and highly profitable - situations before. In 2025, the self-described “First Partner” of California reportedly “received donations to her Representation Project nonprofit from companies that lobbied her husband,” according to the New York Post.

“It is no surprise Gavin and Jennifer Newsom have leveraged their business and non-profit endeavors for personal and political gain,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director for the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust, said at the time. “Backed by left-wing megadonors with ties to the governor, the power couple’s ventures have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars, pushing a politicized agenda into public schools, all while personally benefiting the Newsoms.”

“Profiting from progressive indoctrination is easy when your husband is the governor — a blatant conflict of interest,” Sutherland added.

Weinstein and co-CEO Kelly Sawyer Patricof called the partnership “historic” in a joint statement: "We are incredibly grateful to Governor Newsom for his ongoing commitment to combating diaper needs in California and could not be prouder to partner on this historic initiative that will support moms and babies at their most vulnerable time.”

Adding to corruption concerns, Patricof is married to movie producer Jamie Patricof, the son of Democratic donor Alan Patricof, who, the Post reported, has “deep ties to the Clinton-era political network.”

Diaper Damage

During its first year, the program will be offered at approximately 75 hospitals that primarily care for low-income patients, and will cost the state an estimated $12.4 million, on top of $7.4 million that California allocated for the program’s launch in last year’s budget.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton slammed the program’s allegedly wasteful plan: “If you take the number of diapers they’re planning to send out and the amount of money that he’s spending on it, it’s 50 cents for each one, which is like 100 times more expensive if you just bought them in Costco.”

Media Research Center’s Brittany Hughes explained that Baby2Baby’s branded diapers will be used in the program: “Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a ‘nonprofit’ that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a ‘free’ service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.”

An unnecessarily expensive, taxpayer-funded program that allegedly benefits the governor’s wife: It appears this ostensibly helpful “free diaper” initiative is a real stinker.