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[font color=RED size=6]Extensive Koch Links to New Right-Wing $250 Million Mega Fund[/font]

by Nick Surgey — September 16, 2013 - 7:26am
Topics: Right Wing, Front Groups, Election 2012, Democracy

Freedom Partners (FP) -- a funding group previously unheard of before it shared exclusive and highly selective details about itself with Politico last week -- has extensive hidden connections to Koch Industries and to charities connected to Charles Koch, according to new research by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).



Politico reporters Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei were given an advance copy of FP’s first tax filing, which detailed grants and other spending by the group from late 2011 through the months leading up to the 2012 election.

Some of the grants (listed below) were staggeringly large. For example, FP made a $115 million grant to the 501(c)(4) "Center to Protect Patient Rights" (CPPR), another Koch-connected outfit whose misleading name suggests it is concerned about healthcare, but which actually exists to launder funds to other right-wing dark money groups, some of which then spent funds on election ads.

In 2010, for example, CPPR funneled nearly $55 million to a variety of other dark money groups that spent at least $46 million running ads attacking Democrats in the 2010 elections. In 2012, an investigation by California's elections board revealed that CPPR was involved in a shell game where $11 million was shuffled between three different groups to influence two California ballot initiatives. The Freedom Partner grant to CPPR appears to be a case of one Koch-connected group funneling money to another Koch-connected group, which will in turn launder those funds to yet other groups, none of which disclose their donors -- making the money trail very difficult to track.

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Read More: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12244/revealed-extensive-koch-links-new-right-wing-250-million-mega-fund

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