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Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. A watchdog group...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. As Donald...
When billionaire financier Don Hankey underwrote Donald Trump’s $175 million bond this week, it wasn’t the first time that Trump had taken money...
For nearly a year, two of the loudest members of Congress—Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)—have quietly pursued a First...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. As the...
When conservative icon Matt Schlapp announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him was dropped, he and his allies were...
The sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against conservative icon Matt Schlapp has stalled out, with a number of subpoenas and depositions for the...
One of the most powerful corporate entities in the country, which has a number of controversial ties to China, appears to have been providing a...
House Republican leaders behind the sputtering impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden scheduled a public hearing on Wednesday to iron out...
After years of accusations of financial mismanagement, the Republican National Committee is overhauling its 2024 election operations—a full-on MAGA...
Three months after former Rep. George Santos’ colleagues expelled him for a staggering array of alleged crimes and ethical violations, he has...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. As American...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Campaign donor...
As the once-storied Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off the 50th anniversary of its inaugural national gathering, the organization is...
As Donald Trump’s legal troubles consume more and more of his time, they’re also consuming more of his donors’ money—and there’s a huge hole...
When ABC News reported on Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had acquired text messages between a young woman involved in the sex trafficking...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Donald Trump...
Few Republican tropes are as overused as the George Soros boogeyman. When it comes to right-wing conspiracies, the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Weeks after the...
When Donald Trump invited his longtime White House valet, Walt Nauta, to join his post-presidential political operation in August 2021, he was hiring...
If you want to know where Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson stands on any given political issue, he has a simple answer. “Go pick up a Bible off...
Always read the footnotes. That’s where former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor in Donald Trump’s New York...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. House Speaker...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Democratic House...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. For years, dark...
Jayson Boebert, the former husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), was arrested Tuesday on six charges, including prohibited use of weapons,...
As Rep. James Comer (R-KY) plows ahead with his sensationalized impeachment inquiry premised on Hunter Biden’s business dealings, the Oversight...
On Saturday night, three years to the day after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol building, election objecting Rep. Lauren Boebert...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Few political groups in...
Several lawmakers had to answer for well-timed stock trades amid the 2020 pandemic, but newly elected Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) was not one of...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. A prominent MAGA legal...
A legal defense fund for Donald Trump appears to have placed its spending priorities in a strange place: Mar-a-Lago. New tax filings show Trump’s...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. One of the biggest megadonors...
Former Fox News star turned social media vlogger Tucker Carlson was quietly removed from the board of the media organization he co-founded in...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Just weeks before the COVID...
In a few short years, the Conservative Partnership Institute has become known in Washington as the “nerve center” of the MAGA movement—an...
A conservative nonprofit tied to a controversial “White House-in-waiting” for a second Donald Trump presidency has apparently unintentionally...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. The House Ethics...
When newly minted Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked on Fox News last week about why he had never reported having a bank account,...
It’s no mystery what Rep. Mike Johnson said when he delivered the keynote address at the Council for National Policy’s conference at the New...
Since the beginning of the Small Business Administration’s loan program during the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been stories about fraud, abuse,...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. House Oversight Committee...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. A year after taking his first...
Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have a bank account. At least, that’s what Johnson reports on years of personal...
When George Santos’ congressional campaign came under federal investigation this year, no one wanted to be his treasurer—to the extent that one...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. If one thing was clear from...
With less than a week to go before the Republican primary this May, the office of Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron launched a paid video ad...
On Tuesday, Justice Department prosecutors brought new charges against Rep. George Santos (R-NY), bringing the total counts from 13 to 23 and...
Last week, a former George Santos aide pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a $500,000 campaign loan that the indicted congressman had...
When Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced this year that his office planned to take at least $42 million from state money and use it to...