Puppeteers and Puppets: America's Dark Money Masquerade and Other Questionable Conduct
by Lawrence Kadish • February 28, 2022 at 3:30 pm
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Are union moguls, puppeteers, power-players and profiteers assaulting the Constitution and US election laws?
"Dark money groups," according to Open Secrets, a nonprofit that tracks political campaign financing and lobbying, "spends millions to shape our elections without revealing where their money comes from."
About lobbying, they wrote, "Companies, labor unions, trade associations and other influential organizations spend billions of dollars each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies. Some special interests retain lobbying firms, many of them located along Washington's legendary K Street; others have lobbyists working in-house."
