How Corporate Giant Nike Stays One Step Ahead of the Taxman
Everyone knows Nike. Most people probably own a pair of Nikes. It is unquestionably one of the best-known brands in...
Category: Corruption
Trump Administration Wants to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Keep Outdated Coal Power Plant Operating
You hear it all the time from Trump supporters, the tired old shibboleths about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and...
Predator Bill O’Reilly Shelled Out $32 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suit
According to The New York Times, Bill O’Reilly paid $32 million to settle a sexual harassment suit by Fox News...
Trump Throws 1 Million Americans Off Of Their Health Insurance By Ending CSR Payments
Trump’s decision to stop making the ACA’s cost-sharing payments to help people get access to affordable healthcare will result in...
VP Mike Pence Spends $240,000 to Attend NFL Game to Make a Political Point
Vice President Mike Pence spent more than $200,000 to attend the 49ers-Colts game he left on Sunday after players knelt during the anthem, according...
Fascist Trump Hides Behind The Troops As Criticism of His Handling of Puerto Rico Grows
Saturday, President Trump conflated criticism of him with criticism of our soldiers and first responders. In fact, the U.S. territory...
Top Environmental Democrat Busts Trump’s Scam of Exploiting Public Land for Private Use
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, busted Trump on his secret plan to use...
Exxon Mobil Misled Public On Climate Change For 40 Years, Study Reveals
Exxon Mobil Corp. deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of climate change for four decades, a new Harvard University study...
Fox News Spent $50 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suits In The Last Year
According to the latest round of financial filings, Fox News has had to pay out $50 million in the last...
The Secret Service Spent $13,500 Of Taxpayer Money On Golf Cart Rentals For One Trump Vacation
While millions of Americans are underpaid and worried about the future of their health care, the Secret Service spent $13,500...
Trump’s EPA Met With Chemical Maker Before Approving Pesticide That Poisons Children
The EPA recently decided to drop a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, even though doctors, experts, and the agency’s own...
Fossil Fuel Industry Conspires To Corrupt Elementary School Curriculum
The most sinister force in public education in America’s heartland goes by the rather benign name of the Oklahoma Energy...
The Trump Family and Its Shadowy Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Organized Crime
The special counsel’s investigation of the White House has come more sharply into focus. Robert Mueller is examining whether President...
Sen. Orrin Hatch Plays Dumb and Claims He Hasn’t Seen The Secret GOP Trumpcare Bill
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so...
A Sick First Family: Trump Clan Used a So-Called “Charity” to Line Their Own Pockets
Eric Trump, Donald’s second-eldest son, is one of those who runs the Trump Organization. Until the end of last year,...
Republicans Forsake Morality for Money In Climate Accord Exit
Always follow the money. It was never about the coal miners whose jobs are disappearing due to automation and the...
The Fox News Channel: The Epitome of Fake News
Former Fox News contributor Tobin Smith is exposing Fox News as a scam that is designed to manipulate and fool...
Daily Death Tolls Pushed Up By Big Pharma’s Opioid Epidemic
According to data by the Center for Disease Control, 91 Americans die every day from overdosing on opioids, in the...
Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls & Fakes Science to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk
Internet trolls, paid for by Monsanto, have been scouring the internet to hide the ugly truth about the herbicide Roundup...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
From Turkey to China, The Self-Serving Trumps Continue to Cash in on Presidency
As always with the Trumps, follow the money. Back in 2012, Ivanka Trump tweeted thanks to Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan…...
Dow Chemical Gets White House To Ignore Science And Allow Dangerous Pesticide
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to help pay for Donald Trump’s inauguration, and now they’re hoping that the administration will...
Fox News: A Haven for Sexual Predators
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): I want to ask you about something the president said today on the record in the Oval Ooffice about Bill O’Reilly,...
Trump Enriches Fossil Fuel Polluters
At this juncture in Trump’s America, it might be a chore to find an American who isn’t aware that the...
Donald Trump Loses All Credibility Over Jobs Report
Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted President Trump regarding the February jobs report, saying it “they may have been phony in...
EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott...
Sen. Chris Murphy Seeks Trump Tax Returns to Explain ‘Bizarre Positioning’ on Russia
Looking for an “alternative explanation” for Trump’s “bizarre positioning” on Russia, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said this morning on MSNBC...
Trump’s Executive Order Gift to His Wall Street Cronies
WASHINGTON ― One of the Donald Trump administration’s first orders of business on the economy will scuttle a rule protecting...
Corrupt Banks Sell Low-Income Housing Tainted With Lead Paint
It appears that there is no end to how far the 1% will go to screw over everyone else in...
George W. Bush: Asleep At The Wheel Before The 9/11 Attacks
On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush was on a month-long vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. That morning,...
Pentagon Caught Wasting $125 Billion in Taxpayer Money
As of January 2015, the Pentagon had wasted roughly $125 billion. At least this is what The Washington Post claims...
Presidential Election Hacked? Green Party Raises $2 Million to Find Out
Citing the dangers of hacked voting machines, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Wednesday that she intends to...
Klan Terrorist David Duke Hails Trump’s “Great” Selection Of Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
David Duke — a white nationalist radio host, noted anti-Semite, failed 2016 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, and former Ku...
From Abuse of Women to Abuse of the Tax Code Donald Trump Reeks of Entitlement
When Donald Trump mentioned in his presidential announcement speech last summer that Mexico was “sending rapists,” he made the prevention...
Wells Fargo Hustler CEO John Stumpf Walks Off With $130 Million
Stumpf opted for early retirement amid controversy, but the longtime bank boss is walking away with around $130 million, according...
Donald Trump Claims His Billionaire “Star” Status Allows Him To Get Away With Molestation
WASHINGTON ― A New York Times editorial says the issue with Trump’s lewd comments isn’t the lewdness. It’s that Trump...
Giuliani Attempts to ‘Put Lipstick on a Pig’ by Defending Trump’s Tax Dodging
Rudy Giuliani went on ABC’s This Week and added to the woes of the Trump campaign with a series of...
Trump Brags About Ripping Off Workers, Profiting from the Housing Crisis and Gaming the System
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Donald Trump Busted for Using Charity Money to Settle His Lawsuits
The Washington Post has revealed that Donald Trump used more than $250,000 from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits against...
Lust for Profits Behind Opioid Epidemic
Opioid addiction rates have skyrocketed over the past two decades, costing millions in health insurance costs and lost productivity in...
Republican Candidate Donald Trump Bought A 6-Foot-Tall Portrait Of Himself With Charity Money
In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J. Trump Foundation — to buy...
Fox Pays Gretchen Carlson $20 Million as Restitution for the Sins of Sexual Predator Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News
It has been exactly two months since Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, sued her old boss, Roger Ailes,...
Shady Dealings at the Trump Foundation Lead to IRS Penalty
Donald Trump paid a $2,500 IRS penalty, the Washington Post reports, over that $25,000 contribution his charitable foundation made to Florida Attorney General...
Trump University Taught Students How to Exploit Disabled Homeowners
Trump University, the former for-profit business education venture that has landed Donald Trump in various courts to defend himself against...
Donald Trump’s “Veterans Donations” Is Actually A Political Slush Fund
Donald Trump’s “veteran donations” seem to just be a political slush fund. And, like every horrible thing this guy does,...
