{"id":32228,"date":"2012-11-05T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32228"},"modified":"2012-11-05T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:36:16","slug":"mercury-news-political-watchdog-agency-releases-name-of-group-behind-secret-11-million-contribution-fppc-chairwoman-says-group-admits-to-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/05\/mercury-news-political-watchdog-agency-releases-name-of-group-behind-secret-11-million-contribution-fppc-chairwoman-says-group-admits-to-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury News: Watchdog agency releases name of group behind secret $11 mil contrib; admits to &#8216;money laundering&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; A group tied to David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who have played a huge role in spreading anonymous political cash around the country, was behind the shadowy Arizona group&#8217;s $11 million donation to a California business group.<br \/>\nEnding a highly charged legal drama, the state Fair Political Practices Commission today released the names of the donors behind the campaign contribution that has rocked California&#8217;s political world the past few weeks.<br \/>\n&#8220;This isn&#8217;t going to stop here,&#8221; said Ann Ravel, the chairwoman of the FPPC. &#8220;They admitted to money laundering. We agreed to do this without an audit because we wanted to get information to the public before the election. But we in no way agreed this would preclude further action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/elections\/ci_21932215\/fppc-releases-names-donors-who-made-secret-11\">here<\/a>F to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; A group tied to David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who have played a huge role in spreading anonymous political cash around the country, was behind the shadowy Arizona group&#8217;s $11 million donation to a California business group. Ending a highly charged legal drama, the state Fair Political Practices Commission today released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32234,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions\/32234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}