A new documentary, ‘Murdering 60 Minutes,’ brilliantly connects the dots.
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Vets for AI
Max Rose speaks on behalf of the veterans-focused group VoteVets in the media. He also is a top adviser to the artificial intelligence industry’s main super PAC.
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Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Pentagon Minerals Deal
Alan Waldenberg manages Stephen Feinberg’s personal trust and is lead outside counsel to his former private equity firm. He has also represented the agency where Feinberg is the number two civilian official.
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The Credit Card Operative Helping Shape Democratic Primaries
Peter Kauffmann, vice chair for VoteVets, which has raised $20 million to spend in primaries on mostly moderate candidates this year, is running a front group fighting to keep credit card fees high.
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Paramount’s Merger Strategy: Empty Promises and Empty Threats
The studio is alleging that the state attorneys general challenge to the merger with Warner Bros. is all about CNN, and that they’ll leave Hollywood if they don’t get their way.
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More About Seth Moulton’s Conflicts
He is well positioned to profit from the defense buildup.
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Crypto Democrats Are Ghosting the Industry
The Senate punted a vote on the crypto industry’s top priority to September, which doesn’t bode well for the industry’s legislative agenda or their key alliance with certain moderate Democrats.
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Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes
The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’
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Seth Moulton’s Sweetheart Deals
In Rep. Moulton’s upcoming Senate primary challenge, questions about his lucrative investments in defense tech companies may prove more important than incumbent Ed Markey’s age.
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Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along.