Ohio Confidential
A lobbyist's death leads FBI investigators to expose a $61M slush fund scheme linking Ohio's House Speaker to a billion-dollar corporate bailout through super PAC financing.
A lobbyist's death leads FBI investigators to expose a $61M slush fund scheme linking Ohio's House Speaker to a billion-dollar corporate bailout through super PAC financing.
Discover the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizenβs United case, which enabled unlimited spending by hidden sources on many political campaigns.
A lobbyist's death leads FBI investigators to expose a $61M slush fund scheme linking Ohio's House Speaker to a billion-dollar corporate bailout through super PAC financing.
Trace the tangled history of campaign finance back to the creation of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in 1975, the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, and the Citizens United decision of 2010 that has molded the shape and opacity of present-day super PACs which now flood the system with money.