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67-440: Super PACs were made possible by two judicial decisions in 2010: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and, two months later, Speechnow.org v. FEC . In Speechnow.org , the federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that PACs that did not make contributions to candidates, parties, or other PACs could accept unlimited contributions from individuals, unions, and corporations (both for profit and not-for-profit) for

134-487: A 2017 CPI analysis, "Outreach Calling, raised more than $ 118 million on behalf of about two dozen charities from 2011 to 2015", retaining $ 106 million. This left c. 10.3 percent or $ 12.2 million, for the non-profit charities and those they serve - homeless veterans, breast cancer survivors, disabled police officers, and children with leukemia. In the United States, it is legal for for-profit telemarketers to keep 90% of

201-418: A candidate's former staff or associates. In the 2012 election campaign, most of the money given to super PACs came from wealthy individuals, not corporations. According to data from OpenSecrets , the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active super PACs"

268-449: A joke that there's no coordination between these individual super PACs and the candidates." As of mid-2015, despite receiving 29 complaints about coordination between campaigns and super PACs, "FEC has yet to open an investigation". According to Open Secrets, in the 2019–2020 cycle (as of October 29, 2022) 2,415 groups organized as super PACs; they had reported total receipts of a little over $ 2.5 billion and total independent expenditures of

335-469: A little under $ 1.3 billion. In the 2024 election cycle, there were 2,458 Super PACs that raised $ 4,290,768,955 and spent $ 2,727,234,077. Because super PACs were able to coordinate with campaigns on canvassing for the first time, Donald Trump 's campaign relied on Elon Musk 's America PAC , a super PAC, to lead his get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Too Many Requests If you report this error to

402-473: A newspaper or magazine done this?" More than 100 newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites cited CPI's report, The Climate Change Lobby Explosion , an analysis of Senate records showing that the number of climate lobbyists had grown by three hundred percent, numbering four for every Senator. Tobacco Underground , an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes, produced by CPI's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists,

469-411: A piece arguing that due to a statistically insignificant correlation coefficient between campaign donations and winning contracts, "CPI has no evidence to support its allegations." CPI's LobbyWatch series of reports started with its first reports in 2005. In their January 2005 publication entitled Pushing Prescriptions , CPI revealed that major pharmaceutical companies were the number one lobbyist in

536-418: A progressive media watchdog, has described CPI as " progressive ." CPI's first report, America's Frontline Trade Officials , reported that nearly half of White House trade officials studied over a fifteen-year period became lobbyists for countries or overseas corporations after retirement. According to Lewis, it "prompted a Justice Department ruling, a General Accounting Office report, a Congressional hearing,

603-429: A series of articles including " Toxic clout: how Washington works (badly)" and "How industry scientists stalled action on carcinogen ." In 2013, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the results of a 15-month-long investigation based on 260 gigabytes of data regarding the ownership of secret offshore bank accounts. The data was obtained by Gerard Ryle as a result of his investigation into

670-501: A staff writer covering lobbying and influence for CQ Roll Call , "made the first identifiable, published reference to 'super PAC' as it's known today while working at National Journal , writing on June 26, 2010, of a group called Workers' Voices, that it was a kind of "'super PAC' that could become increasingly popular in the post-Citizens United world." According to FEC advisories , super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties. This restriction

737-469: Is "to counter the corrosive effects of inequality by holding powerful interests accountable and equipping the public with knowledge to drive change." It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting , and in 2023, the Edward R. Murrow Award for General Excellence . The CPI has been described as an independent watchdog group. The Center releases its reports via its website. The mission of

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804-760: Is already illegal, since it would constitute a contribution in the name of another. A "pop-up" super PAC is one that is formed within 20 days before an election, so that its first finance disclosures will be filed after the election. In 2018 the Center for Public Integrity recorded 44 pop-up super PACs formed on October 18 or later, a year when the Federal Election Commission pre-general election reports covered activity through October 17. In 2020 there were more than 50. Pop-up super PACs often have local-sounding or issue-oriented names. However they can be funded by much larger party-affiliated PACs. In 2021

871-477: Is intended to prevent them from operating campaigns that complement or parallel those of the candidates they support or engaging in negotiations that could result in quid pro quo bargaining between donors to the PAC and the candidate or officeholder. However, it is legal for candidates and super PAC managers to discuss campaign strategy and tactics through the media. In 2024, a Federal Election Commission ruling eased

938-494: The New York Times , this has created a situation of financial peril that "threatens to extinguish a newsroom of about 30 journalists that has watchdogged powerful institutions for decades." In March 2024, CPI laid off 11 newsroom employees. CPI's donors are listed on its website for the most recent two years. CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996. In its first year, CPI's budget

1005-642: The PBS NewsHour , "unmasked the deep, sometimes hidden, connections entangling the chemical industry , scientists and regulators, revealing the industry's sway and the public's peril." Investigative journalists examined the work of the then California Department of Public Health 's John Morgan who had been working since 1995, to debunk allegations that chromium had contributed to the cancer cluster attributed to Hinkley groundwater contamination . The CPI found glaring weaknesses in Morgan's analysis that challenge

1072-864: The Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the FEC, listing 23 pop-up Super PACs which had failed to disclose their affiliation to other PACs mostly affiliated with leaderships of the two major parties. Super PACs may support particular candidacies. In the 2012 presidential election, super PACs played a major role, spending more than the candidates' election campaigns in the Republican primaries. As of early April 2012, Restore Our Future —a super PAC usually described as having been created to help Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign—had spent $ 40 million. Winning Our Future (a pro– Newt Gingrich group) spent $ 16 million. Some Super PACs are run or advised by

1139-487: The FEC and by independent organizations such as OpenSecrets . Yet despite disclosure rules, political action committees have found ways to get around them. The 2020 election attracted record amounts of donations from dark money groups to political committees like super PACs. These groups are required to reveal their backers, but they can hide the true source of funding by reporting a non-disclosing nonprofit or shell company as

1206-603: The Firepower scandal . The ICIJ partnered with the Guardian , BBC , Le Monde , The Washington Post , SonntagsZeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR to produce an investigative series on offshore banking . ICIJ and partnering agencies used the ownership information to report on government corruption across the globe, tax avoidance schemes used by wealthy people, the use of secret offshore accounts in Ponzi schemes ,

1273-540: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( ICIJ ). This international network, based in Washington, D.C. , includes over 200 investigative reporters in over 90 countries and territories. Gerard Ryle is the director of ICIJ. Its website publishes The Global Muckraker . ICIJ is focused on issues such as "cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power". In 2013,

1340-473: The Knight Foundation , CPI launched iWatchnews.org as its main investigative reporting website. In August 2012, CPI stopped using iWatchnews.org and returned to its original domain. Buzenberg stepped down from CPI at the end of 2014, at which time Peter Bale was named CEO. In November 2016, Bale resigned from the center to "pursue other international media opportunities" and John Dunbar assumed

1407-801: The Omidyar Network , the Open Society Foundations , and the Pew Charitable Trusts . The Barbra Streisand Foundation reports that it has funded CPI. In July 2014, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation donated $ 2.8 million to CPI to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance. According to the International Business Times , "as CPI was negotiating the Arnold grant, Arnold's name

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1474-826: The Society of Professional Journalists . The report was an examination of the connection between overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom during the Clinton presidency and financial contributions to the Democratic Party as well as the Clinton re-election campaign. In 2003, CPI published Windfalls of War , a report arguing that campaign contributions to George W. Bush affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Slate ran

1541-569: The 2015 Center for American Homeless Veterans' tax returns, "it provided just $ 200 in grants to other organizations out of $ 2.5 million in overall expenditures, the vast majority of which paid telemarketers." This report confirms findings from the investigation by the Saint Louis, Missouri Better Business Bureau (BBB) and CharityWatch . The BBB had advised "consumers to exercise caution when deciding whether to contribute money" to Hampton's non-profit. BBB also found that "[c]ontracts between

1608-445: The 2016 presidential campaign, super PACs were described (by journalist Matea Gold) as "finding creative ways to work in concert" with the candidates they supported and work around the "narrowly drawn" legal rule that separated political campaigns from outside groups/super PACs. "Nearly every top presidential hopeful" had "a personalized super PAC" that raised "unlimited sums" and was "run by close associates or former aides". Not only did

1675-633: The Baltimore Orioles game. In May 1990, Lewis used the money he had raised and his house as collateral to open an 1,800-square-foot (170 m ) office in Washington, D.C. In its first year, the CPI's budget was $ 200,000. In 1996, CPI launched its first website, although CPI did not begin to publish reports online until 1999. In August 2000 the CPI published a story entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough: State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob", in which

1742-448: The CPI, and eight Huffington Post journalists moved to CPI. In 2011, CPI eliminated 10 staff positions in order to compensate for a $ 2 million budget shortfall. Buzenberg and other senior staffers also took salary cuts. CPI board chairman Bruce Finzen said the budget would be "reduced between $ 2 million and $ 3 million, more like $ 2.5 million. The budget for next year will be in the 6 to 7 million range." In April 2011, with support from

1809-525: The Center for American Homeless Veterans and "its two main fundraisers" – Reno, Nevada -based Outreach Calling and Phoenix, Arizona -based Midwest Publishing – revealed that "just 10 percent of all donations" go to the Center for American Homeless Veterans. The BBB investigation also revealed that from September 2014 to September 2016, Outreach Calling and Midwest Publishing "collected nearly $ 5 million, with about $ 508,000 going to

1876-414: The Center's carefully assembled, very talented, senior staff had quit by the fall of 2005". In September 2005, CPI announced that it had discovered a pattern of plagiarism in the past work of a staff writer for CPI's 2002 book Capitol Offenders . CPI responded by hiring a copy editor to review all work, issuing a revised version of Capitol Offenders , sending letters of apology to all reporters whose work

1943-474: The FEC regulations allow campaigns to "publicly signal their needs to independent groups", political operatives on both sides "can talk to one another directly, as long as they do not discuss candidate strategy." Candidates are even allowed by the FEC "to appear at super PAC fundraisers, as long as they do not solicit more than $ 5,000". Representative David E. Price (D–NC) complained "The rules of affiliation are just about as porous as they can be, and it amounts to

2010-544: The February 8, 2016 article "Meet the 'rented white coats' who defend toxic chemicals", the February 10, 2016 article "Making a cancer cluster disappear", the February 16, 2016 article "Ford spent $ 40 million to reshape asbestos science", the February 18, 2016 article "Brokers of junk science ?", and the March 31, 2016 article "Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles." In this investigative series which

2077-610: The ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung had received a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents from a secret source, created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca . The Panama Papers provided detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The documents named

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2144-506: The Panama Papers in 2015 and distributed them to about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves, were published on April 3, 2016. Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016. In November 2017, ICIJ launched a coordinated worldwide release of investigative reports based on

2211-632: The Paradise Papers, documents leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on offshore tax havens – tax "paradises" – from offshore law firm Appleby . A 2012 The New York Times editorial described the CPI as a "nonpartisan watchdog group". In relation to a story in February 1996, CPI was characterized as a "liberal group" by the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times . Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ,

2278-552: The President book was on The New York Times Best Seller list for three months. Lewis served as CPI's director until January 2005. As of his departure, CPI had published 14 books and more than 250 investigative reports. In 2005, CPI had a staff of 40 full-time Washington-based reporters who partnered with a network of writers and editors in more than 25 countries. Years later, Lewis said he decided to leave his position at CPI because "he didn't want it to become 'an institution that

2345-592: The UK also participated. that won the Overseas Press Club Award and Investigative Reporters and Editors 's Tom Renner Award for crime reporting. In 2010, CPI partnered with National Public Radio to publish "Sexual Assault on Campus", a report which showcases the failures of colleges and government agencies to prevent sexual assaults and resolve sexual assault cases. The year long investigation by CPI, Toxic Clout , produced in partnership with

2412-463: The United States by established news outlets and major publications. In his book entitled 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity Lewis recounted how he recruited two trusted journalists, Alejandro Benes and Charles Piller —whom he had met through his television work— to serve on the board of directors of the nascent CPI. All three had grown dissatisfied with what

2479-565: The United States spending $ 675 million over seven years on lobbying. They continued with this series in 2005 revealing how pharmaceutical companies had contacts even within the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Trade Representatives. CPI's report, Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown? , looking at the roots of the global financial crisis, was featured in numerous media outlets, leading Columbia Journalism Review to ask, "Why hasn't

2546-498: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 207615570 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:53:13 GMT Center for Public Integrity The Center for Public Integrity ( CPI ) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission

2613-490: The [Center for American Homeless Veterans] and "almost all the money retained" by the center, "went to pay salaries, legal fees and office-related expenses." According to New York state regulators, "a wealthy 49-year-old New Jersey businessman", Mark Gelvan (b.1978), is the "driving force behind Outreach Calling." Outreach Calling collects money for "homeless veterans," "breast cancer survivors", "disabled police officers", and "children with leukemia", among others. According to

2680-437: The active role of major banks in facilitating secrecy for their clients, and the strategies and actors that make these activities possible. In early 2014 the ICIJ revealed as part of their "Offshore Leaks" that relatives of China's political and financial elite were among those using offshore tax havens to store wealth. The 2016 series entitled Science for Sale included, the February 8, 2016 article "About Science for Sale",

2747-427: The authors argued that while Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton —from 1995 to 2000—the company received "$ 3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans". In 2001, Global Integrity , an international project, was launched to systematically track and report on openness, accountability and the rule of law in various countries. It has since been incorporated independently. In 2004, CPI's The Buying of

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2814-482: The center in great shape financially, but when you have a visionary who leaves, how do you continue? 'With difficulty' is the answer." Baskin publicly disputed Buzenberg's claims in a letter to the American Journalism Review where she wrote, "contrary to the statement from current Executive Director Bill Buzenberg, the center was not left 'in great shape financially' by my predecessor. Much of

2881-402: The center is "to protect democracy and inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests". CPI was founded on March 30, 1989, by Charles Lewis , a former producer for ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes . By the late 1980s Lewis observed that fewer resources—time, money and space—were being invested in investigative reporting in

2948-462: The condition of the Center. It's no secret it had a less than enviable few years. But that's one of the reasons I thought it was important to leave. I had founded it and run it for 15 years, and at some point the founder does have to leave the building...I don't regret it, I think it was important that I left, but I do feel badly about the hardship it brought to people I think the world of." In 2010, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund merged into

3015-411: The conservative Club for Growth , and the liberal Commonsense Ten (later renamed Senate Majority PAC). Their advisory opinions gave a sample wording letter which all super PACs must submit to qualify for the deregulated status, and such letters continue to be used by super PACs up to the present date. FEC Chairman Steven T. Walther dissented on both opinions and issued a statement giving his thoughts. In

3082-553: The consortium reported having 160 member journalists from 60 countries. The ICIJ brings together teams of international journalists for different investigations (over 80 for Offshore leaks ). It organized the bi-annual Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting . ICIJ staff members include Michael Hudson , while the Advisory Committee in 2013 included Bill Kovach , Phillip Knightley , Gwen Lister , and Goenawan Mohamad . In April 2016,

3149-456: The donor. By using this tactic, dark money groups can get around a 2020 court ruling that attempts to require nonprofits running political ads to reveal their donors. It is also possible to spend money without voters knowing the identities of donors before voting takes place. In federal elections, for example, political action committees have the option to choose to file reports on a "monthly" or "quarterly" basis. This allows funds raised by PACs in

3216-497: The final days of the election to be spent and votes cast before the report is due and the donors identities' are known. In one high-profile case, a donor to a super PAC kept his name hidden by using an LLC formed for the purpose of hiding the donor's name. One super PAC, that originally listed a $ 250,000 donation from an LLC that no one could find, led to a subsequent filing where the previously "secret donors" were revealed. However, campaign finance experts have argued that this tactic

3283-696: The funds collected. According to the December 12, 2017 article, Brian Arthur Hampton co-founded two Falls Church, Virginia -based non-profit organizations: the Circle of Friends for American Veterans (COFAV)—also known as "American Homeless Veterans"—in 1993 and then the Center for American Homeless Veterans—also known as the "Association for Homeless and Disabled Veterans". During the 2000s, Hampton said he had "hosted more than 100 members of Congress across 196 veterans shelter-themed forums in 46 cities" in rallies for these non-profits. Kleiner revealed that according to

3350-560: The leaders of five countries — Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates — as well as government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Malta, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom. The ICIJ and Süddeutsche Zeitung received

3417-455: The money raised during the year prior to my tenure was used to offset budget overruns on several previous projects. I replaced our director of development and made fundraising my number one priority, much as Buzenberg has done. As a rookie fundraiser, I take pride in the fact that I was able to raise millions of dollars." In 2008, Lewis reflected on the transition period following his resignation and said, "I regret what happened to my staff and

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3484-478: The organization until May 24, 2006. Baskin was followed by Wendell Rawls Jr., who was named the center's interim executive director. Rawls had previously worked as the center's managing director — being named to that post by Baskin on December 19, 2005. He joined CPI in August 2005. In 2007, Rawls was succeeded by William Buzenberg , a vice president at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio . Buzenberg

3551-500: The purpose of making independent expenditures. The result of the Citizens United and SpeechNow.org decisions was the rise of a new type of political action committee in 2010, popularly dubbed the "super PAC". In an open meeting on July 22, 2010, the FEC approved two Advisory Opinions to modify FEC policy in accordance with the legal decisions. These Advisory Opinions were issued in response to requests from two existing PACs,

3618-481: The restrictions on super PACs. Super PACs were allowed to coordinate with campaigns for the purposes of canvassing, which was deemed not "public communications." By January 2010, at least 38 states and the federal government required disclosure for all or some independent expenditures or electioneering communications. These disclosures were intended to deter potentially or seemingly corrupting donations . Contributions to, and expenditures by, Super PACs are tracked by

3685-438: The role of chief executive officer. In 2019, Susan Smith Richardson was named chief executive officer, becoming the first African-American CEO in the center's history. In February 2024, CEO Paul Cheung resigned. The board also acted to eliminate the position of editor-in-chief, a post that had been held by Matt DeRienzo. CPI had a revenue goal of $ 6 million for 2023, and fell about $ 2.5 million short of that. According to

3752-617: The statement, Walther stated "There are provisions of the Act and Commission regulations not addressed by the court in SpeechNow that continue to prohibit Commonsense Ten from soliciting or accepting contributions from political committees in excess of $ 5,000 annually or any contributions from corporations or labor organizations" (emphasis in original). The term "super PAC" was coined by reporter Eliza Newlin Carney. According to Politico , Carney,

3819-462: The validity of his findings. "In his first study, he dismisses what others see as a genuine cancer cluster in Hinkley. In his latest analysis, he excludes people who were exposed to the worst contamination ." PBS Newshour broadcast the series which included "EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest", "Ouster of Scientist from EPA Panel Shows Industry Clout", starting in early 2013. CPI published

3886-457: Was Chuck's Excellent Adventure". Lewis' departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, who had partially funded the CPI's activities. In December 2004, CPI's board of directors chose television journalist Roberta Baskin as Lewis's successor. Baskin came to CPI after directing consumer investigations for ABC News's 20/20 and serving as Washington correspondent for PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers . Lewis wrote that "most of

3953-793: Was absent from a CPI report on pension politics". Arnold has spent at least $ 10 million on a campaign to roll back pension benefits for public workers. As of March 2024, CPI's board of directors includes co-chairs James A. Kiernan and Wesley Lowery, and members Richard Lobo, George Alvarez-Correa, Bruce Finzen, Jamaal Glenn, Olivier Kamanda, Jennifer 8. Lee , Gilbert Omenn, Sue Suh, Daniel Suleiman and Andres Torres. Former board members include Elspeth Revere, Bill Kovach, Ninan Chacko, Arianna Huffington , Craig Newmark , Dan Emmett, Matthew Granade, Steve Kroft , Hendrik-Jan Laseur, Susan Loewenberg, Bevis Longsteth, Olivia Ma, Scott Siegler, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Christiane Amanpour , Sheila Coronel , and Molly Bingham , and Matt Thompson. In 1997, CPI launched

4020-436: Was being done in the name of investigative journalism by established news organizations. They chose the name public integrity as a way of underlying the "ultimate purpose of investigative journalism" which is "to hold those in power accountable and to inform the public about significant distortions of the truth." In their tenth anniversary Annual Report Piller described their first meetings in their "Boardroom—the cheap seats at

4087-529: Was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton, placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officials." In 1996, CPI released a report called Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House . This report, written by Margaret Ebrahim, won an award from

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4154-574: Was co-published with Vice, journalist revealed how research backed by industry has opened debates on asbestos and arsenic with some of the paid scientists saying that "there are 'safe' levels of asbestos despite statements to the contrary from the World Health Organization and many other august bodies". In December 2017, CPI journalist Sarah Kleiner published a report on professional fundraisers who use telemarketing to collect donations for US military veterans, then keep 90 percent of

4221-545: Was donated by publicly traded corporations . As of February 2012, according to OpenSecrets , 313 groups organized as super PACs had received $ 98,650,993 and spent $ 46,191,479. This means early in the 2012 election cycle, PACs had already greatly exceeded total receipts of 2008. The leading super PAC on its own raised more money than the combined total spent by the top 9 PACS in the 2008 cycle. Super PACs have been criticized for relying heavily on negative ads. The 2012 figures do not include funds raised by state level PACs. In

4288-458: Was first interviewed for the position in 2004 during the hiring process that ultimately led to the selection of his predecessor, Roberta Baskin. According to a report by Lewis, "the number of full-time staff was reduced by one-third" in early 2007. By December 2007, the number of full-time staff had dropped to 25, down from a high of 40. At the time, Buzenberg said "It's a great, great place, but I will not mislead you... [Lewis] quite frankly left

4355-857: Was honored with the Renner Award for Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Online International Reporting. The Tobacco Underground Project was funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. It is a cooperative project between the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) with journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Journalists in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Paraguay and

4422-511: Was plagiarized, authoring a new corrections policy, and returning an award the book received from Investigative Reporters and Editors . He went on to work for a political consulting firm that specializes in opposition research . In March 2007, he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that the center's official version "is not accurate in telling the full story of why I left the center," but did not elaborate. Baskin led

4489-750: Was reported to be $ 200,000. In 2010, CPI had $ 9.2 million in revenue and $ 7.7 million in expenses. By 2022, annual revenues had declined to $ 5 million. CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the Sunlight Foundation , the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation , the Ford Foundation , the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ,

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