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Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest

2010-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Analysis of congressional testimony revealed that think tanks funded by corporations and wealthy donors appeared as expert witnesses before congressional committees without disclosing their financial conflicts of interest. Between 2021-2024, 34% of think tank witnesses came from “dark …

Heritage Foundation American Enterprise Institute Koch Brothers General Electric Facebook +1 more regulatory-capture lobbying dark-money think-tanks congressional-corruption

Lewis Powell Authors Corporate Blueprint Memo

1971-08-23 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Supreme Court Justice nominee Lewis F. Powell Jr. writes confidential memo to U.S. Chamber of Commerce outlining systematic strategy for corporate capture of democratic institutions. The memo provides a detailed blueprint for business mobilization through think tanks, legal foundations, lobbying …

Lewis F. Powell Jr. Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Richard Mellon Scaife Joe Coors +1 more capture-cascade blueprint institutional-capture powell-memo chamber-of-commerce +1 more