"Let's baptize the billionaire's money." HBO has revealed two official trailers for two new documentaries made by the acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney. They're both part of
The Dark Money Game - a doc series about Citizens United. The two films examine dark money in politics and campaign fund-raising 15 years after Citizens United ruling allowed unlimited anonymous political spending. In an environment where 90% of elections are won by the candidate who spends the most money, Gibney examines the legalities & ethics of unchecked financing, following the money to reveal themany partisan organizations, corporations, and individuals inside and outside government who benefit from this flow of influence. In
Ohio Confidential - When a powerful political lobbyist is found shot to death, his apparent suicide highlights a bizarre turn in Ohio's largest public corruption case accidentally uncovered by investigators that was nearly concealed by loose superPAC campaign financing rules.
Wealth of the Wicked - The film traces the tangled history of campaign finance back to the creation of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in 1975, the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, and the Citizens United decision from 2010 that has molded the shape and opacity of present-day super PACs which now flood the system with money. All of this is super scary and extremely corrupt and we need to stop it! Hopefully these docs educate and wake up more people. //
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