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Wellspring’s Flow: Dark Money Outfit Helped Fuel Groups on Political Front Lines
The third part of a package produced in collaboration with NPR. Part I is available here, and Part II is here. For people who guard their privacy closely, Ann and Neil Corkery are key players in some...
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Americans for Prosperity Helped Churn Koch-Linked Money
Americans for Prosperity, the political nonprofit formed with the backing of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch, gave a $100,000 grant to another dark money group linked to the Kochs in...
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At Least 1 in 4 Dark Money Dollars in 2012 Had Koch Links
Political money flowed freely in the world of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch in 2012. With most of the annual tax filings for nondisclosing nonprofits now in, it’s clear that no other...
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American Future Fund Draws Nearly All Revenues From Two Koch-Linked Groups
American Future Fund, a politically active nonprofit based in Iowa that reported spending more than $25 million in last year’s elections on ads and other communications benefiting Republicans, received...
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Americans for Responsible Leadership Wholly Funded by Koch-Linked Group
Americans for Responsible Leadership — one of the political nonprofits involved in a scheme last year that California authorities called political “money laundering” — spent more than $25.2 million...
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The Koch Network: A Cartological Guide
Our joint analysis with the Washington Post of the Koch brothers’ labyrinthine network of political groups — none of which reveal the names of their donors — showed that the coalition raised more than...
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An Encore for the Center to Protect Patient Rights
Sometime last week, one of the largest and most controversial dark money groups adopted a new name. Two documents suggest the timing of the Center to Protect Patient Rights’ metamorphosis into...
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Nonprofit’s Exemption Was Granted Despite Record Fine, Big Political Spending
A conservative nonprofit that paid a record-setting fine in California for its part in a campaign finance scheme might never have sought formal recognition as a tax-exempt group had it not been...
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GenOpp, Too: Another Group Almost Wholly Funded by Koch Network
Generation Opportunity President Evan Feinberg. (Twitter) Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce provided more than half the two-year budget of a conservative nonprofit geared toward youth that has been...
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American Future Fund Goes to the Islands
Alejandro Garcia Padilla, governor of Puerto Rico, is under attack by American Future Fund. (GDA via AP Images) A politically active nonprofit that spent more than $25 million on ads to help...
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The multiplication magic behind the dark money churn
Ever hear the one about the social welfare organization that was punished by the IRS for its political activity? The lawyer who got the letter was so shocked by the news, he forgot to thank the flying...
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FEC Dark Money Fine Shows Limits of Disclosure (Again)
Sean Noble ran the Center to Protect Patient Rights, which was the hub of the Koch network of groups for several years. (LinkedIn) This week, the Federal Election Commission did the unthinkable. The...
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At Least 1 in 4 Dark Money Dollars in 2012 Had Koch Links
Political money flowed freely in the world of conservative billionaires David and Charles Koch in 2012. With most of the annual tax filings for nondisclosing nonprofits now in, it’s clear that no other...
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American Future Fund Draws Nearly All Revenues From Two Koch-Linked Groups
American Future Fund, a politically active nonprofit based in Iowa that reported spending more than $25 million in last year’s elections on ads and other communications benefiting Republicans, received...
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Americans for Responsible Leadership Wholly Funded by Koch-Linked Group
Americans for Responsible Leadership — one of the political nonprofits involved in a scheme last year that California authorities called political “money laundering” — spent more than $25.2 million...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Koch Network: A Cartological Guide
Our joint analysis with the Washington Post of the Koch brothers’ labyrinthine network of political groups — none of which reveal the names of their donors — showed that the coalition raised more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Encore for the Center to Protect Patient Rights
Sometime last week, one of the largest and most controversial dark money groups adopted a new name. Two documents suggest the timing of the Center to Protect Patient Rights’ metamorphosis into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nonprofit’s Exemption Was Granted Despite Record Fine, Big Political Spending
A conservative nonprofit that paid a record-setting fine in California for its part in a campaign finance scheme might never have sought formal recognition as a tax-exempt group had it not been...
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