Here’s how rich mega-doners hacked US politics
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
Category: Corruption
Robert Reich: Zoom paying no taxes while getting rich is proof ‘the system is rigged’
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
Manhattan DA Cy Vance Has Trump’s Taxes
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Dallas billionaire natural gas producer watches profits soar as Texans freeze
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
Trump’s Sec. of State Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
Trump Back At Mar-A-Lago, Raising Taxpayer Golf Tab To $151.5 Million
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Fascist Rupert Murdoch Gets COVID-19 Shot While Profiting Off Vaccine Misinformation
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue profiting off of the pandemic
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
As Trump’s Election Lies Continue, So Does His “Extremely Misleading” Fundraising Grift
As President Donald Trump tries to delegitimize the results of a presidential contest in which he “got his ass kicked” by making unsubstantiated claims of...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science Deniers
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
Dark Money Behind Supreme Court Nominee Amy Barrett
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Our Tax Code Is Designed To Create Donald Trump
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Taxpayers looking at their monthly bills have a lot of thoughts about Trump’s $750 tax bill
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Outrage as Pentagon Funnels Hundreds of Millions Meant for Covid Supplies to Private Defense Contractors
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
‘Delay, Distract, and Derail’: New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Avoid Regulation
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Trump family business profits from reelection bid amid pandemic
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
Trump Wanted Less Testing Because Jared Kushner Said It Would Spook Wall Street
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it’s still the Donald-and-Jared corrupt clown show
The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they’re on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local...
Republican’s sabotaged Florida’s unemployment system putting Trump’s re-election bid in jeopardy
Republicans are furious that Florida’s broken unemployment system was working exactly as former Gov. Rick Scott intended — and it...
Rand Paul’s Office Won’t Say How He Got Coronavirus Tested Before Sick People
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
Trump Taps Former Attorney Of Trophy Hunting Group For Key Wildlife Job
The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International,...
Virus Relief Bill Would Allow Mnuchin To Hand Out $500 Million ‘Slush Fund’ To Secret Corporations
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
It’s morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer: Robert Reich
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
Trump Is Taking Bribes And Selling Access To The White House
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
How Big Pharma twists the law to its will and leaves Americans worse off
Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re...
Robert Reich: The biggest business con of 2019 — fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Robert Reich: How Trump has betrayed the working class
Trump’s corporate giveaways and failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Trump...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
‘Tax Dodger-in-Chief’ Trump Changes Permanent Residency From New York to Florida
In the midst of a heated court battle with Manhattan over his tax returns, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night...
