End Citizens United aggressively seeks campaign finance reform

July 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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By Joe Garofoli, San Fransisco Chronicle

(July 4, 2016 07:12 pm) — In one of his earliest moments of raw candor during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that when big donors like him give politicians money, they “do whatever the hell you want them to do.”

“That’s a broken system,” Trump said during a Republican debate back in August. He piled on by mocking his opponents who pandered to the Koch brothers as “puppets” of the billionaire conservative businessmen.

Yet even as the political polar opposites Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent the past year railing on about a “rigged” political system that allows wealthy donors outsize influence, campaign finance reform isn’t the kind of sexy issue that drives voters to the polls.

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“Panama Papers” is the story of the biggest leaks of all time

April 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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(Apr. 4, 2016 22:00) — The source is anonymous, individuals are anything but that.

It all starts in Munich. Two young reporter obtained the data of hundreds of thousands letterbox companies. There they find the richest, most powerful and richest people in the world. The two journalists follow the tracks – using 400 reporters from 80 countries – and come across the hidden billions of Presidents, criminals and ordinary super rich.

The history of the largest data leaks ever begins late in the evening with an anonymous message: “Hello. Here speaks John Doe. Interested in information? “

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UBS Deal Shows Clinton’s Complicated Ties

February 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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Donations to family foundation increased after secretary of state’s involvement in tax case
By JAMES V. GRIMALDI and REBECCA BALLHAUS

Updated July 30, 2015 8:27 a.m. ET
A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.

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