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CRC Special Report Unveils Vast “Dark Money” Network on the Left
Capital Research ^ | 17apr19 | Editorial staff

Posted on 06/06/2019 5:29:52 AM PDT by vannrox

As presidential candidates promise to refuse so-called “dark money” and Members of Congress decry the role of money in politics, a Special Report from CRC dispels one of the biggest myths in political discourse: the Left doesn’t use “dark money.”

CRC’s report by investigative researcher Hayden Ludwig, Big Money in Dark Shadows: Arabella Advisors’ Half-billion-dollar “Dark Money” Network, profiles four nonprofit organizations, all controlled by senior leaders at Arabella Advisors, a for-profit consultancy.

Read the full report here and find the executive summary of Big Money in Dark Shadows below.

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Executive Summary

The political Left often criticizes—and the mainstream media frequently report on—the network of center-right nonprofits funded by billionaire entrepreneurs Charles and David Koch. But few politicos know of a left-wing leviathan in Washington, D.C., with a reach rivaling that of the Koch network.

This study by the Capital Research Center documents a shadowy web into which nearly $600 million flowed in 2017, the most recent year for which tax returns are available. Operating under the aegis of “philanthropy,” this network is housed in and staffed by a for-profit, privately held consultancy called Arabella Advisors, LLC.* Arabella manages four nonprofit entities—the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund—each of which shares an address and interlocking officers with

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; crime; left; money

1 posted on 06/06/2019 5:29:52 AM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

The Liberal Fasscist Equities Fund?

Send them all to jail.


2 posted on 06/06/2019 5:33:59 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Or better still, tax the shit out of them just as the liberal fascist wing of the IRS has done to Conservative Republican philanthropy.


3 posted on 06/06/2019 5:35:44 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: vannrox

Wondering if all the D candidates are also funneling campaign donation money into these.


4 posted on 06/06/2019 6:50:46 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Candor7

This outfit could be out of business if we had a Republican Senate that fought the fascists.


5 posted on 06/06/2019 6:51:59 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

This outfit could be out of business if we had a Republican Senate that fought the fascists.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You betcha. but they are bound by their own greed and a burgeoning kind of ignorance.

Little do these Senators know that America is leaving them behind, troglodyte Republicans in an America now reborn.


6 posted on 06/06/2019 7:16:51 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: vannrox

Repeal the whole “non profit” scam.


7 posted on 06/06/2019 7:53:29 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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