Koch Bros. dark money has given millions of $$$$ to NRA
I found this article from 2015. Hopefully with gaining anti-NRA sentiment, people will become aware of the ongoing damage done by the Koch thugs and start to call for an outing of politicians who take their dirty money.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-2014-election_us_564b7680e4b06037734b3987
POLITICS 11/17/2015 04:07 pm ET Updated Dec 19, 2016
The Kochs’ Dark Money Reaches All The Way To NRA, Religious Groups
The billionaire brothers’ main political arm raised $126 million in 2014.
By Paul Blumenthal
WASHINGTON — The main arm of the political network operated by billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch raised $126 million in 2014 and distributed millions to more than 20 other groups active in last year’s midterm elections.
According to an annual tax filing posted Tuesday on the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce website, the nonprofit group gave $87.6 million in grants and contributions to outside groups. It spent $28.5 million on its own activities and paid $13.3 million in salaries for its well-compensated managers.
Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, which is registered as a 501(c)(6) trade association, serves mainly as a fundraising portal to distribute money from its 200-plus donors to conservative political groups. As a nonprofit, it’s not required to — and doesn’t — disclose its donors.
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Its ostensible mission, according to the tax form, is to “advance its members’ common business interests by advancing the principles of free markets and a free society.” But Freedom Partners’ money is spread well beyond business advocacy.
Three-quarters of the money Freedom Partners distributed last year went to other groups in the Koch network. Americans for Prosperity, the largest and most active political nonprofit founded by the Kochs, received the most: $22 million. Generation Opportunity, a nonprofit focused on the millennial vote, received $14.2 million. Concerned Veterans for America, a veterans group launched by the Kochs, got $12.7 million. Freedom Partners also sent $9.7 million to the Center for Shared Services Trust, $5.7 million to the Evangchr4 Trust — which aims to disseminate and apply Biblical principles — and $2.4 million to the American Energy Alliance.
Outside the Koch constellation of nonprofits, Freedom Partners gave $4.9 million to the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action — another seemingly unusual choice for a nonprofit dedicated to advancing business interests.
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