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Former cleanup workers blame illnesses on toxic coal ash exposures
KINGSTON, Tenn. — It was April 28, 2014, five years after Craig Wilkinson’s 12-month stint as a backhoe operator at a massive coal-ash spill in Tennessee. Wilkinson was desperate for answers. Bearing a...
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Union-backed vets super PAC weighs in against Trump
July 20, 2016: This story has been corrected.A left-leaning veterans’ organization made its first ad buy of this election cycle last week, telling voters that Donald Trump is “too dangerous for...
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South Carolina ethics commission narrows governor’s allowed use of football...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley can continue to use University of South Carolina season football tickets and keep access to Williams-Brice Stadium’s executive suites, but it must be for state-related...
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Clinton outraising Trump by 3-1 margin in dash for cash
New filings were released by the Federal Election Commission last night, and they show that the rich guy, Donald Trump, is thus far getting thumped by his Democratic opponent in the money race by a...
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Special interests, we're at TED and ICIJ impact
Dear Colleagues,In a huge month for politics in the United States, the federal politics team is taking its investigative focus on the road to look into the special interest circus at the conventions....
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For special interests, the real party is outside the convention
CLEVELAND — Even for veteran rocker Rick Springfield, whose chart toppers date to Ronald Reagan’s first term, Tuesday night’s crowd across the Cuyahoga River from the Republican National Convention...
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The influence diaries: Dispatches from the Democratic National Convention
Editor's note: The Center for Public Integrity’s money-in-politics reporting team is bringing you news from the Democratic National Convention — focusing on special-interest influence, big-money...
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New Panama Papers series exposes secret deals in Africa
New revelations published today by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in collaboration with more than a dozen news organizations in Africa, expose fresh details about the...
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Emmy nomination for our Fatal Extraction investigation
Fatal Extraction, our multimedia investigation into the environmental and social impact of Australian mining companies in Africa, has been nominated for an Emmy Award: the most prestigious U.S....
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Report: FEC leaders, managers share blame for horrid morale
Bickering commissioners, ineffective managers and lousy internal communication rank among the top reasons why the Federal Election Commission staff is one of the federal government's most...
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Our reporters at the Democratic convention
The Center for Public Integrity is your source for intelligence on who's trying to influence the direction of U.S politics in this extraordinary presidential election year.This week our federal...
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Democrats want reform — but court big money in the meantime
PHILADELPHIA — Political candidates should not “depend on large contributions from the wealthy and the powerful,” Democrats on Monday declared while kicking off their national convention.But the rest...
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‘We are a law firm’
While selling foreclosure-protection services from a high-pressure telemarketing room in South Florida, Patrick Sweeney had quick comebacks to ease a customer’s doubts.He simply made up an answer that...
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Lawyers exploit foreclosure ‘rescue’ fee loophole
In 2011, three attorneys set up a firm called The Mortgage Law Group that took advantage of a federal program aimed at helping people threatened with foreclosure to stay in their homes.Business boomed....
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Note from the Center: DNC, Emmy nomination, legal scam and more
Money in politics is the essence of what the Center’s U.S journalists focus on: whether the traditional influence peddling we track constantly or in the Buying of the President project this year, or...
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U.S. declines to acknowledge Afghanistan’s child soldiers, experts complain
Investigators for the United Nations found 48 child soldiers in Afghanistan last year, with more than half working for government-backed forces such as the Afghan National Army and the Afghan Local and...
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Search the Nonprofit Network
Chris Zubak-Skeeshttps://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/chris-zubak-skeeshttps://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/08/03/20030/search-nonprofit-network
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New search tool traces sources of ‘dark money’
“Dark money” just got a bit of light shined on it, thanks to a new search tool unveiled today by the Center for Public Integrity.The Center downloaded 850,000 forms from about 250,000 nonprofits that...
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A secret group easily bought the raw ingredients for a dirty bomb – here in...
The clandestine group’s goal was clear: Obtain the building blocks of a so-called radioactive “dirty bomb” – capable of poisoning a major city for a year or more – by openly purchasing the raw...
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9 things to know about Jill Stein
Abolishing student debt. Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Guaranteeing a right to health care.Sound familiar? Those issues — which wouldn't be out of place in a Bernie Sanders stump speech —...
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