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Yet another whistleblower alleges Medicare Advantage fraud
Insurance giant Humana Inc., which operates some of the nation’s largest private Medicare health plans, knew for years of billing fraud at some South Florida clinics, but did little to curb the...
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Tracking the Trump data, plus Spotlight
The speed of the Trump juggernaut redefining U.S politics is making it hard for any news organization, perhaps especially an investigative one, to keep track of the landscape and the people on it.Show...
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Rubio, other conservatives pummel Trump with attack ads
The empire has struck back — a conservative coalition aired nearly 7,000 advertisements in the past week attacking anti-establishment candidate Donald Trump in a last-ditch effort to prevent the real...
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Commentary: Is America a 'Nation on the Take'?
America stands at a historic crossroads. One path leads to a renewal of our Democratic ideal, the other to government by the few, the rich and the powerful. So argue Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman in...
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The lobbyists who love Bernie Sanders
You might not think the National Cannabis Industry Association, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and National Mining Association have much in common.But they have this: Lobbyists for...
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Most voters favor cutting defense spending. Politicians say otherwise
March 10, 2016: This story has been corrected.Both the Obama administration and Congress are pushing for higher spending on the military next year, as are most of the presidential candidates. But most...
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Belgium orders immediate security upgrade at its nuclear sites
Just weeks after publicly confirming that terrorism suspects were spying on a senior nuclear official, the Belgian government announced it will take an unprecedented step towards strengthening security...
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Citizens United, explained
More than $300 million has been spent so far on political TV ads in the 2016 election, and if you live in states hosting primaries or caucuses, you’ve endured a nonstop barrage at virtually every...
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Lobbyists' preferred candidate in GOP presidential race — Marco Rubio
While 2016 may be the year of the political outsider, Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio is relying on a decidedly insider source for campaign money: lobbyists.Rubio's presidential bid has...
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Analysis: How might the ‘Citizens United’ decision be undone?
It’s taken a few years, but the 2010 Supreme Court case crucial to the creation of super PACs and “dark money” nonprofits has entered the political zeitgeist. More and more Americans are seeing and...
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Virginia drops charges against boy who was subject of Center probe
March 15, 2016: This story has been updated. A Virginia juvenile court has dropped charges against Kayleb Moon-Robinson, an autistic sixth grader whose rough arrest on felony charges was the focus of a...
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Pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC leader charged with fraud
Cary Lee Peterson — the creator of a purportedly pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC that collected nearly $50,000 from “James Bond” actor Daniel Craig — was arrested Sunday in San Francisco by the FBI and...
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Super PACs built a wall around Florida, and Trump destroyed it
A coalition of outside groups paid for more than 4,300 anti-Donald Trump ads during the week before Tuesday’s primary election in Florida — all to no avail as the real estate mogul sailed to an easy...
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You could buy an Australian island for what the Pentagon says it would cost...
The Pentagon dashed any hopes that it might soon be able to pass a simple audit, when it provided a surprisingly unhelpful response late last month to a simple question about how many widgets of a...
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Tobacco giant gave $250,000 to group representing black-owned newspapers
After National Newspaper Publishers Association President Benjamin Chavis Jr. visited Reynolds American’s headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., he left impressed — and with hopes of big money from the...
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Feeding the political beast
Politics and particularly money-in-politics is the meat and drink of the Center for Public Integrity. It’s where we do much of our long-term coverage and also where journalists like federal politics...
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Center wins SABEW Award for Mobile Home Reporting
A series exposing the exorbitant fees and sky-high interest rates of a mobile-home empire has earned the Center a “Best in Business” prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers...
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Catching a political phantom
This is the story of a phantom who sponsored a political attack ad in the heat of Florida’s critical presidential primary and sidestepped federal transparency laws.It begins with a single TV spot— one...
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Latest numbers to know about the 2016 presidential race
Presidential candidates and their supportive super PACs generally entered March one of two ways: flush with energy and cash or destined for Election 2016 footnote status.A new round of federal campaign...
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Megadonors stricken with presidential fatigue?
Donald Trump-fueled tumult in the Republican presidential race is prompting some major donors to abandon the field for now and instead funnel resources into downballot races.Some key political groups...
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