Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups
Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators…
Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
Blue-chip companies gave to Republican group funneling money to lawmakers who overturned abortion-ban veto in North Carolina.
Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks
As the 2024 election cycle begins in earnest, companies must act on their fiduciary responsibility to more closely monitor their political spending and the accompanying risk.
ESG’s Political Side Bubbles Up in Tense Proxy Season Debates
Annual meetings kicked off with a bang this year as companies and their executives confronted increasingly thorny questions from both liberal and conservative stakeholders…
‘A truly incredible amount of money’: millions ride on one US judicial election
More than $37m has already been spent in an election that will this month determine control of Wisconsin’s supreme court, easily making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history.
Letter to the Editor: ‘Code’ offers framework to help companies avoid perils of dark money
Your March 13 editorial (“Out of the darkness“) tying the recent Larry Householder guilty verdict to the perils that companies face from “dark money” political spending hit the bullseye.
Out of the Darkness
A sordid chapter in Ohio’s political and corporate history came to a close as former Republican House Speaker Larry Householder and former state GOP chairman Matt Borges were convicted last Thursday, March 9, in federal court on racketeering-conspiracy charges.