Citizens United Paved the Way for Dark Money
Channel: Economy In Crisis
Date: 17/07/2014

Dark Money is money spent on campaigns and issues whose provenance is not known and not easily discoverable. Obviously, with such a thing accountability is not possible, and now that special interest groups can donate unlimited sums to candidates and PACs, we are entering an era when there is no accountability any longer in the electoral process. Dark Money groups have set up a network of funds transfers aimed at obscuring the origin of contributions. They exchange money back and forth and leave such a long, twisted trail that only many weeks and months of diligence can uncover what has transpired and who is paying for whom. Usually, by the time we find out who has paid for a candidate's election, they have already taken the oath of office.