"Tax Filings Hint at Extent of Koch Brothers’ Reach"

[applegrove]

Tax Filings Hint at Extent of Koch Brothers’ Reach

by NICHOLAS CONFESSORE at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/politics/tax-filings-hint-at-extent-of-koch-brothers-reach.html?_r=2&

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A single nonprofit group with ties to Charles G. and David H. Koch provided grants of $236 million to conservative organizations before the 2012 election, according to tax returns the group is expected to file Monday, underscoring the broad reach of the political movement the two business executives and their advisers have built in recent years.

Freedom Partners, as the group is now known, is playing a bigger role for the Kochs as the brothers seek a tighter rein over the advocacy groups and political organizations that their donor network finances and expand their involvement in Republican political causes.

The group, formerly known as the Association for American Innovation, functions as a clearinghouse for money and message strategy. Like other such groups on the right and left, Freedom Partners raises money from donors and then distributes it to other groups — most of them other nonprofits that mix issue advocacy and election advertising — to spend.

The arrangement gives the donors an extra layer of anonymity and blurs the original source of money that fuels controversial campaigns.


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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Deep pockets?

Think Mindanao Trench.

[xfundy]

2. "Freedom Partners"

Just for the partners. Not for anyone else.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Nicholas confesore

The byline is so fiction like.

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. hate those guys!