In June 2014, Richard Berman, the infamous president of corporate public relations firm Berman and Company, pitched a room full of energy company executives on his team’s work in fighting an anti-fracking initiative in Colorado. Noting that critics often want to know the names of the donors behind his campaigns, Berman said he runs all…
In mid-May, Richard Berman, the infamous president of corporate public relations firm Berman and Company, published an op-ed in The Washington Times decrying an investigation into the lack of female directors in Hollywood because, in his view, “China’s growing direct and indirect control of soft communications like movies and radio” is a greater concern. Calling the…
Richard Berman’s dark money group to attack on national parks and forest.
November 23, 2015 — During an FEC investigation sparked by CREW’s complaint that CHGO violated the law by failing to register as a political committee or report the millions of dollars it spent on television ads in 2010, the organization’s key players downplayed their involvement. A lawyer for Wayne Berman, now the national finance chairman…
Newly disclosed records of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) investigation of a notorious dark money group called the Commission on Hope, Growth & Opportunity (CHGO) reveal that the attempts by the organization’s leaders to minimize their involvement are directly contradicted by the recollections of their associates. The documents also shed more light on the concerning…
In a colossal failure to fulfill its core duties and enforce campaign finance law, the Federal Election Commission announced Friday it would take no legal action against one of the most notorious dark money groups involved in the 2010 elections, despite overwhelming evidence the group egregiously broke the law then intentionally went out of business to avoid the FEC’s investigation.
The numbers of employees inundated with their bosses’ political preferences may soon rise.
The House of Representatives should open a formal impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Bill Barr, according to a report published by CREW.
Also sues Federal Election Commission.
Internal documents revealed the brazenness of dark money group CHGO’s lies to federal agencies, all in the name of keeping the big money donor names secret.
Freedom Frontier, a politically active nonprofit, admitted raising more than $1 million in 2015 after initially telling the IRS it raised no more than $50,000 that year. The admission, which was made in an amended tax return, came a little over a month after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reported on inconsistencies…
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