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$1 billion spent in 2016 presidential race — and other numbers to know
It's official: The 2016 presidential election is already a 10-figure affair.Household names such as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz account for much of this spending. But a...
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U.S. prosecutor opens investigation into 'Panama Papers matters'
In a statement on Thursday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made it clear that while it welcomed interest from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office in its Panama Papers...
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Cartel-linked suspects arrested after Panama Papers revelations
Uruguayan prosecutors are seeking to bring to trial at least five individuals detained on suspicion of laundering money for a powerful Mexican drug cartel, including at least one suspect allegedly...
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Coming Soon: ICIJ to release Panama Papers offshore companies data
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) will release on May 9 a searchable database with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers...
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Donald Trump steamrolling toward nomination despite negative ad blitz
About 60,000 TV ads — roughly one-fifth of all ads aired in the Republican presidential primary — have been critical of Donald Trump in some fashion, according to a Center for Public Integrity review...
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Center asks Virginia Supreme Court to make public auto title-loan records
The Center for Public Integrity will ask the Virginia Supreme Court to make public auto title lending reports that show financial details such as how much interest the businesses charge on loans and...
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Trump watch, Panama Papers and media in crisis
Dear Colleagues,Our U.S political team finds nuggets in a plain weird presidential campaign where the winds of advertising spending have blown from fruitless big spending by Jeb Bush to a concerted...
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Iceland’s first lady linked to offshore investments
On April 22, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Iceland President Olafur Grimsson: “Do you have any offshore accounts? Does your wife have any offshore accounts? Is there anything that’s going to be...
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Auditors criticize Pentagon for wasting property and ammunition
At eleven o’clock most mornings in the city of McAlester, Oklahoma, residents feel the ground shake as bombs go off at an army ammunition depot nearby. Smoke sometimes billows from the depot’s 52...
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Pro-Cruz super PAC plays offense in Indiana
Update, 8:44 p.m., May 3, 2016: Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign after losing to Donald Trump in the Indiana primary.A victory in Tuesday’s Indiana primary is Sen. Ted Cruz’s strongest hope...
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Conservatives can't stop Trump in Indiana despite last-ditch ad blitz
Update, 8:44 p.m., May 3, 2016: Sen. Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign after losing to Donald Trump in the Indiana primary.How much are some Republicans still willing to spend to stop Donald...
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Philip Morris uses chemical industry consultants to perpetuate 'light...
In a landmark ruling nearly a decade ago, a federal judge ordered tobacco companies to stop lying.After listening to 84 witnesses and perusing tens of thousands of exhibits, U.S. District Judge Gladys...
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Ted Cruz and friends spent $10 per vote in Indiana. Trump won anyway.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and his super PAC allies spent more than $10 per vote on advertising ahead of Indiana's primary Tuesday.And Donald Trump— whose campaign spent about $1.50 per...
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Donald Trump's new finance guru: once a Clinton donor, Soros employee
Like Donald Trump himself, the Trump campaign’s new national finance chairman has a long history of contributing to Democrats — including Hillary Clinton.Private investor Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s new...
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U.S. officials react to Panama Papers disclosures with get-tough proposals
In the wake of the public firestorm sparked by the Panama Papers scandal, the Obama administration unveiled a series of new proposals today that would crack down on offshore secrecy and illicit...
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Panama Papers source offers documents to governments, hints at more to come
The anonymous whistleblower behind the Panama Papers has conditionally offered to make the documents available to government authorities.In a statement issued to the German newspaper Süddeutsche...
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'John Doe' explains Panama Papers and why the ICIJ
Dear Colleagues,The Panama Papers story has gained fresh impetus this with a remarkable manifesto from the person who leaked the information, explaining the motives behind the world’s largest leak and...
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Two very different Donalds, one White House goal
Don McGahn’s picture is conspicuously missing from the wall of former commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, and it’s nowhere on the agency’s website.The former FEC chairman’s presence,...
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Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to fraud and financial misconduct
Leonard Gotshalk, an Atlanta Falcons football player turned Oregon businessman, had a history of legal issues by the time he went looking to buy an offshore company in 2010. Lawsuits and criminal...
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ICIJ releases database revealing thousands of secret offshore companies
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishes today a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada...
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