By ANNIE YOUDERIAN – “that he wanted the next mayor to fire the chief of police and replace him with a person of Encinas’ choosing,” (CN) – A San Diego lobbyist conspired to funnel more than $500,000 from a wealthy… Read More ›
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Soros backs push for Hillary Clinton for US presidency
Billionaire adds his influence to unofficial Ready for Hillary campaign to back moves for her to run for the White House in 2016 PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 October, 2013, 9:07pm UPDATED : Friday, 25 October, 2013, 9:07pm Reuters in Washington… Read More ›
In shift, Obama accepts corporate funding for inauguration: “access to donor receptions for $250,000 in individual donations or $1 million in institutional or corporate contributions.”
President Barack Obama’s inauguration committee is accepting corporate donations to help fund the parade and other events associated with his January 21 inauguration after tapped-out Democratic donors spent huge sums helping him get elected. The move is a shift… Read More ›
Billionaire Koch brother ‘imprisoned and interrogated executive who had concerns over the company’s tax evasion scheme’
By Snejana Farberov PUBLISHED:17:57 EST, 13 October 2012| UPDATED:19:22 EST, 13 October 2012 Tycoon: William Koch, the CEO of the Oxbow Group with a personal worth of $4billion, is accused of imprisoning and interrogating one of his executives Billionaire and… Read More ›
Citizens United ruling accounts for 78 percent of 2012 election spending
By Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian Monday, September 24, 2012 19:54 EDT Topics: citizens united ♦ super PACs ♦ the Sunlight Foundation Almost $465m of outside money has been spent on the US presidential election campaign so far, including $365m that… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 