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State supreme court judges reveal scant financial information
Last December, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal filed by a couple who had accused financial giant Wells Fargo & Co. of predatory lending.One justice, who owned stock in the...
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Methodology: how we graded state supreme court financial disclosure
The Center for Public Integrity reviewed the rules governing financial disclosures for the highest ranking state judges in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Grades were based generally on...
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Liberal heavyweight Patriot Majority USA fueled by secret, big-dollar donors
A liberal, labor union-backed nonprofit that’s not supposed to be primarily political spent $23.7 million last year in the run-up to national elections — 46 times what it spent in 2011, a non-election...
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Nine-month Center investigation shows commitment to work and need for your...
I know of few other news organization that would do this: spend nearly nine months and countless hours going over every personal financial disclosure statement from a total of 335 state supreme court...
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Pro-lesbian super PAC founder and Obama bundler named to top arts post
President Barack Obama has named Laura Ricketts, a major Democratic Party donor and one of the his top campaign fundraisers, to be a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...
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Intelligence contractors donate millions to intelligence watchdogs in Congress
Most intelligence-related spending by the U.S. government is subject to independent scrutiny and monitoring by a small number of people — primarily, the 40 lawmakers assigned to the House and Senate...
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A year after Newtown, searching for answers in the nation’s schools
It wasn’t quite cold enough to need a vest on a mid-November Texas morning, but Matt Dossey was wearing one anyway. Made of heavy-weight beige canvas, the vest just might have been concealing a pistol....
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Shining a light on ALEC's power to shape policy
It’s amazing how a little sunlight will change the behavior of some of the biggest names in corporate America — sunlight here meaning greater transparency and accountability.It’s also amazing how the...
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A modern understanding of a long ago confession and a boy’s execution
ALCOLU, S.C. — A few miles off I-95, past acres of brown-and-white fields where blackbirds circle overhead, this small town in the heart of Deep South cotton country isn't known for much. It has a post...
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New credit union cop tight with industry
Minutes after Rick Metsger took the oath of office to become the newest overseer of the nation’s credit union industry, he walked a few blocks up the street to break bread with executives and lobbyists...
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Data shows San Francisco's black students suspended at extremely high rates
One of America's most liberal bastions — San Francisco — has cut student suspensions by nearly a third in three years but continues to struggle with grossly disproportionate suspensions of black...
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'Lobbyist' not curse word to all influencers
These days, Nick Allard conjures visions of Shakespeare's Juliet when he talks of lobbyists."A rose by any other name would smell as sweet — or foul," says Allard, the dean of the Brooklyn Law School...
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Kill the Election Assistance Commission?
Myrna Perez and Thomas Hicks again sat before a pair of U.S. senators Wednesday for a hearing on their presidential nominations to the Election Assistance Commission.Their session, however, morphed...
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State judges: We don't need no stinkin' disclosure
State officials blasted The Center for Public Integrity’s report on how difficult it is to learn about the financial holdings of state supreme court judges, while the reaction from some newspapers was...
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Paradise of untouchable assets
Picture a paradise where you can be lawsuit-proof. A place to hide your hard-earned assets far from the grasp of former or soon-to-be-former spouses, angry business partners or, if you happen to be a...
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High bladder cancer rate shrouds New York plant, exposing chemical hazards in...
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Ray Kline, it’s said, bled Goodyear blue.Compact and laconic, Kline signed on as an operator at the Goodyear chemical plant here in 1960 and logged just short of 40 years. He...
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Fighting over Aetna's disclosure
Two days before Aetna told Wall Street it would not allow policyholders who received cancellation notices to renew their cancelled policies next year, as President Obama had requested, the company was...
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Regulators to axe secretive super PAC
A mysterious super PAC that's routinely ignored federal election laws has a date with the executioner.In a letter dated Dec. 4, the Federal Election Commission tells Secretive Politics that it faces...
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How Washington starves its election watchdog
Just after the federal government shut down Oct. 1, and one of the government’s more dysfunctional agencies stopped functioning altogether, Chinese hackers picked their moment to attack.They waylaid...
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Incoming FEC bosses pledge to work together following blistering Center report
The newly elected chairman and vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission pledged to work together to tackle a host of agency problems detailed today by the Center for Public Integrity in an...
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