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May 24, 2024 · OpenSecrets report details how this “dark money,” funds from anonymous sources often laundered through shell companies or private organizations, has surged in the run-up to the 2024 election at a...
May 10, 2024 · Dark money, funneled into committees with innocent sounding names, are used by both Republicans and Democrats. It happens through pouring money into 501 (C) (4) committees and LLCs that are not...
- Howard Wilkinson
May 21, 2024 · Public broadband advocates say that over the past few years, they've seen a noticeable increase in "dark money" groups attacking public network projects.
May 7, 2024 · The term “dark money” is used by those seeking more speech regulation and generally refers to groups that do not report donors when making independent expenditures. Hence the contention that this form of campaign spending is “dark” – presumably something shady, frightening, and underhanded.
May 6, 2024 · In Ohio, federal and state prosecutors are untangling one of the largest corruption scandals in the nation, involving a powerful utility, Akron-based FirstEnergy, that admitted it bribed one top...
- Jessie Balmert
- State Government Reporter
May 6, 2024 · How dark money influences politics. In 2010, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected corporations' and unions' right to donate to independent expenditure groups,...
2 days ago · Rep. Ken Chestek, D-Laramie, started his fight for campaign finance reform after his first campaign for office in 2016. Chestek learned the power of “dark money” in politics when an anonymous ...
