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The conservative mega-donor has stepped down as leader of his $97 billion hedge fund, but he already made big investments in President Donald Trump.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. commissioned an “independent” review of his own campaign finances. The group he chose has been bankrolled by Kroll Associates, the firm hired to investigate Harvey Weinstein’s accusers.

As New Yorkers headed to the polls, Cyrus Vance Jr.’s write-in opponent and his "scrappy campaign" made a last-ditch effort to oust the incumbent.

Bernie Sanders' top campaign adviser told IBT that “the DNC was not neutral.” New revelations spotlight systemic problems inside the Democratic party, he said.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for governor, has longstanding ties to the Koch brothers who have directed millions of dollars into efforts to elect him.

Days ahead of the election, the Manhattan district attorney explains why Congress should reject the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and responds to recent questions about the impact of campaign contributions.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said experts who worried state parties could be used to route money around contribution limits were “divorced from reality.” Donna Brazile discovered he was wrong.

The controversial contract with Whitefish Energy limited labor-costs auditing. That’s commonplace on the federal level, “placing taxpayer dollars at risk,” said a recent report.

We must impose term limits and fundraising regulation, and candidates must reject murky contributions, says Marc Fleidner, who is running as a write-in candidate for Manhattan DA.

The Massachusetts Democrat told IBT that Navient should not be getting government contracts to manage student loans.

Moderate Republicans aren’t the only politicians running scared: A handful of Democratic senators are banding together to raise money for their 2018 reelection contests.

Millions of taxpayer dollars turned the solar boom into an import boom, decimating U.S. manufacturing and slowing action on climate change.

A new Defense Department report says U.S. taxpayers have spent $1.46 trillion on wars abroad since Sept. 11, 2001.

As the GOP works to take apart the Affordable Care Act, they may want to keep in mind a yearly fee that Obamacare imposes on insurers — the cost of which they pass to their policyholders while their profits continue to rise.

The man who introduced newly indicted Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Team Trump is a real estate billionaire and one of the president’s best friends.

An out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale, says a research analyst who studies the intersection of culture and economics.

The Senate voted to kill a rule that prevented financial firms from barring consumers from the courts. U.S. companies including the Trump Organization use similar agreements to keep workers from suing them.

In its blistering critique of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. Treasury cited the work of an academic whose career has benefited from years of funding from the billionaire Koch brothers.

After meeting with Vice President Mike Pence’s office, lenders gave him a detailed blueprint to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and "erase" a piece of Obama-era regulation.

A new study argues that states without income taxes have fared worse over the last decade than states that tax their rich residents.

As the political influence of wealthy Americans and corporations continues to grow, communities are fighting back with public financing programs at the state and local level.

Author Franklin Foer talks to IBT about the need to protect democracy from the growing influence of Amazon, Facebook and Google.

As Hurricanes Harvey and Irma battered America's eastern coasts, banks and financial industry advocacy groups flocked to Capitol Hill to push for reauthorization of the taxpayer bailout program for the country's flood-prone waterfront real estate.

Republican Michigan State Representative Michele Hoitenga took $6,000 from telecommunications industry lobbyists. She’s now the sole sponsor of a bill that would outright ban municipal broadband. Huge parts of the state are “being left behind,” said one activist.

These three things should be considered when focusing in on what millennials value even more than price.

Relying on the libertarian billionaires’ support is nothing new for the vice president. Now Mike Pence and the Koch brothers are working together to pass tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

The controversies around DA Cyrus Vance Jr. highlighted the fact that it's currently legal in New York for defense attorneys to donate to the campaigns of district attorneys prosecuting their clients.

Underwriters and insurers may profit from a disconnect between the perceived risk of mass violence like the Las Vegas shooting and the actual probability of such attacks.

In advance of a possible 2020 White House run, Sen. Bernie Sanders seems determined to fix a problem that may have cost him the 2016 Democratic nomination.