{"id":1014869,"date":"2023-03-05T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=aa1ae17b7eb344d5e5024044dc65adad"},"modified":"2023-03-05T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:47:16","slug":"congressional-leaders-are-embracing-dark-money-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/05\/congressional-leaders-are-embracing-dark-money-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Leaders Are Embracing Dark Money More Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. In his first interview after the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire FTX, founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the surprising admission that he had donated as much to Republicans as he had to Democrats&mdash;just that, as he put it, &ldquo;All my Republican donations were...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/congressional-leaders-are-embracing-dark-money-more-than-ever\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/congressional-leaders-are-embracing-dark-money-more-than-ever\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark money groups are increasingly routing their contributions to super PACs aligned with congressional leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3545,58224,10342,40880,40881,4721,10343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014870,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014869\/revisions\/1014870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}