American Democracy Minute

In our final Dark Money report this week, we revisit Sam Bankman-Fried's frank admissions of buying influence with U.S. politicians. Bankman-Fried was sentenced in March 2024 to 25 years for defrauding investors of $8 Billion dollars from his crypto customers. Brian will be back on Monday with a new American Democracy Minute Radio Report.

Most of the reforms on Dark Money have come from citizen ballot initiatives, one of the reasons anti-voter forces are working so hard to change the rules on initiatives. While Brian's on vacation, please take a minute to listen to last year's report, part of our series entitled "Shedding Light on Dark Money." Click on the headline below to go to this episode of last year's series.

The LLC Loophole is big enough that you could drive a yacht through it. So while Brian's on vacation this week, we're rerunning our series on Dark Money in our campaigns and its influence on our candidates. Click on the headline below to go to this episode of last year's series.

Already in the 2024 election, Open Secrets estimates over $162 Million in Dark Money has infiltrated the election -- and the primaries aren't even over. So while Brian's on vacation this week, we're rerunning our series on Dark Money in our campaigns and its influence on our candidates. Click on the headline below to go to last year's series and its audio.