The Washington Examiner cited our work on outgoing New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s ethical slipperiness today. Spitzer’s been pushing the ethical envelope for years it seems. We previously reported…
The revelation that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the left’s caped crusader for the Social Justice League, has been involved in a prostitution ring will no doubt come as…
Harper’s columnist Ken Silverstein assesses the patterns of John McCain’s philanthropy by analyzing the tax forms for the John and Cindy McCain Family Foundation of Phoenix. The only thing…
Second Amendment enthusiasts have created a website with regular updates on District of Columbia v. Heller, the upcoming Supreme Court case that could put gun prohibitionists out of business forever. Imagine…
There is a Philadelphia think-tank that does research on class action lawsuits–and, no fooling, its trustees and funders are plaintiffs’ attorneys. The most prominent are Bill Lerach and his former firm, Milberg…
Here’s an editorial in the Washington Post that raises many of the same points made in our recent profile of the William J. Clinton Foundation. (An abridged version…
The New York Times reports today that mining magnate Frank Giustra, a partner-in-philanthropy with Bill Clinton, gave $31.3 million to Clinton’s charity after a visit the two made…
The death of financier Louis Wolfson, whose dubious foundation payments to Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas led to the Justice’s resignation in 1969, was reported yesterday [and here]. Wolfson was…
The January 2008 edition of CRC’s of Foundation Watch looking into the workings of the Democracy Alliance is now available here. We have also taken a look at where Democracy Alliance…
Rick Cohen, of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, released a report earlier this month analyzing the role of conservative foundations in the “school privatization movement.” Though the…