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Bernie Sanders scourge out of jail, back in super PAC business
The alleged fraudster behind a purportedly pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC that seemingly scammed“James Bond” actor Daniel Craig is out of jail and back in the political fundraising game.Cary Lee Peterson...
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Coal ash bedevils Oklahoma town, revealing weakness of EPA rule
BOKOSHE, Oklahoma — Here in the land of wind-whipped, rolling plains, the gray dust, which sparkles in just the right light, seems inescapable. Residents of this town near the Arkansas line say they...
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Tight North Carolina governor's race fought by outsiders
It’s shaping up as the nation’s hottest governor’s race, but the two actual candidates in North Carolina are not the ones controlling the conversation.Instead independent groups not affiliated with...
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Why a former IRS commissioner thinks the FEC is a ‘bureaucratic waste’
Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson was so unhappy about Fox News’ decision to keep him out of the first Republican presidential debate last August, he filed an official complaint with the Federal...
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Congress funds problematic weapons the Pentagon does not want
In the nearly eight years since the first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was delivered to the Navy, it hasn’t won many ardent fans outside the Navy, its home-state lawmakers, or the employees of the two...
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Koch brothers’ plight likened to that of civil rights workers in the 1950s
What do billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch have in common with civil rights pioneers of the 1950s? More than you might think, according to a recent ruling by a federal judge.Each has faced...
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Pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC returns government contractor's contribution
A major pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC that's raised tens of millions of dollars in support of the presumptive Democratic nominee has returned a questionable contribution it received from a...
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9 things to know about Gary Johnson
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, is hoping to turn some voters’ dissatisfaction with Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton into...
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Special interests look to influence political conventions — discreetly
Protestors will shout. Delegates may revolt. Factions will haggle over rules and platform proposals.But come later this month, no amount of friction will stop corporations, unions and special interests...
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Pork barrel politics and more from the Center
Pork barrel shipThe great Washington tradition of pork barrel politics is alive and well if work from the Center for Public Integrity’s National Security team is any indication.Lauren Chadwick, on a...
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Center for Public Integrity to crash national convention parties
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Center for Public Integrity is sending reporters to the national political conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia to exclusively focus on special-interest influence,...
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Koch-backed ‘dark money’ groups fined for failing to disclose donors
In an extraordinary move, the Federal Election Commission — frequently gridlocked and often criticized as toothless— has fined three so-called "dark money" groups funded by the donor network connected...
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Rape, murder, famine — and $2.1 million for K Street PR
By almost any objective measure, the fledgling nation of South Sudan is an unmitigated disaster — reeling from a violent power struggle that’s left an estimated 50,000 people dead just in the past...
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The influence diaries: Dispatches from the Republican National Convention
Editor's note: The Center for Public Integrity’s money-in-politics reporting team is bringing you news from the Republican National Convention — focusing on special-interest influence, big-money...
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Homeowners say foreclosure firm failed them
Just five years out of law school, Gennady Litvin ran a bustling legal practice that took in millions of dollars from distressed homeowners who hoped they could avoid foreclosure.The Litvin Law Firm...
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Even some liberals fear Donald Trump's Ohio appeal
Ohio is a perennial presidential battleground state, and Republicans are acutely aware of this as they host their party's national convention there this week.So are Democrats. Hillary Clinton and her...
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Nuclear weapons contractors repeatedly stifle whistleblowers, auditors say
At laboratories and factories where American nuclear weapons are designed and built, and at the sites still being cleansed of the toxic wastes created by such work, contractor employees outnumber...
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Low bar: How lawyers profit off desperate homeowners
In 2012, after a heart attack left him too ill to work and unable to make his mortgage payments on time, John M. Green turned to the Litvin Law Firm for help.Green said he paid the firm some $8,000...
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Senate candidate to attend 'about 35' fundraisers, events during GOP convention
CLEVELAND — For retired Col. Rob Maness, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana, the real action at the Republican National Convention is everywhere but the Quicken Loans Arena, where...
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Trump's new super PAC attack dog
A pro-Donald Trump super PAC called “Rebuilding America Now” has positioned itself as an attack dog, unafraid to take shots at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.One of its hard-hitting...
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