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OpenSecrets.org’s New Dark Money Data Measures Groups’ Politicization
Update, Sept. 11: For clarity, we have added two paragraphs to this story (see *) explaining that the IRS and FEC definitions of political spending are not identical, and have rephrased headlines to...
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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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CRP Hosts Dark Money Panel
Update: We have now posted the video from the event. Watch it below, or on our YouTube Channel. There will be no easy fix. Or at least that was the apparent consensus this morning at a Center for...
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In the Garden of Dark Money, the Thorny Case of Rosebush Corp.
Former IRS official Lois Lerner became the face of the IRS “scandal,” though the agency rarely rejects exemption applications. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) Ever since news broke in 2013 that the IRS...
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Wellspring gives big boost to Judicial Crisis Network with $6.6 million grant
The address listed on the Judicial Crisis Network’s IRS filing is 722 12th St. NW, fourth floor. But Americans for Tax Reform, the only fourth floor tenant, deflected questions about whether JCN had...
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OpenSecrets.org’s New Dark Money Data Measures Groups’ Politicization
Update, Sept. 11: For clarity, we have added two paragraphs to this story (see *) explaining that the IRS and FEC definitions of political spending are not identical, and have rephrased headlines to...
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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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CRP Hosts Dark Money Panel
Update: We have now posted the video from the event. Watch it below, or on our YouTube Channel. There will be no easy fix. Or at least that was the apparent consensus this morning at a Center for...
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Web of secret money hides one mega-donor funding conservative court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neal Gorsuch speaks during an event at Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) This story was cross-posted at McClatchy When a small...
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$1 million mystery gift to Trump inauguration traced to conservative legal...
Leonard Leo (SHAUN TANDON/AFP/Getty Images) Cross-posted at McClatchy DC Bureau One of the largest contributions to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee in 2016 appears to have been...
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Pruitt landed wife a job at dark money group backing political allies
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images) As Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt’s list of scandals continues to grow, one nonprofit at the center of one of the latest controversies is...
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Kavanaugh confirmation battle further mystifies ‘dark money’ spending
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images) A lot is at stake in the ongoing battle for the next seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump’s fulfillment of campaign promises. Supreme Court nominee Brett...
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Tax returns reveal one six-figure donor accounts for entirety of “dark money”...
Matt Whitaker (right) applauds Jeff Sessions as he leaves the Justice Department(via Twitter – @TheJusticeDept) A single six-figure donor accounted for 100 percent of funding raised by a nonprofit run...
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New ‘dark money’ group led by Trump judicial adviser tied to network...
Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Newly obtained tax records shed additional light on the web of “dark money” organizations...
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Secretive conservative legal group funded by $17 million mystery donor before...
President Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The conservative “dark money” organization that spearheaded controversial Supreme Court Justice...
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An influential ‘dark money’ group turns off the lights for the last time
Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh (Alex Wong/Getty Images) One of the most influential “dark money” groups you’ve probably never heard of has...
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