Sean Noble, 'Wizard' Behind Koch Brothers' Donor Network, Now On The Outs

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Sean Noble, 'Wizard' Behind Koch Brothers' Donor Network, Now On The Outs

by Peter H. Stone at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/sean-noble-koch-brothers_n_4017578.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Now, however, according to three GOP operatives, Noble appears to have fallen out of favor with many in the Koch world. Even as he continues to leverage his "dark money" ties with his private consulting business, Noble's center has become entangled in an ongoing California probe that a state election regulator has called the largest case of “campaign money laundering” in California history.

As a result, one GOP operative said, “Noble has had his wings clipped.”

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The Center to Protect Patient Rights, whose only address is a P.O. box outside Phoenix, Ariz., is emblematic of the Koch network’s penchant for secrecy and its increasing complexity and opaqueness.

As a “social welfare” 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, whose primary purpose cannot be political activity, the center must provide information about its donors to the IRS -- though the names aren't disclosed publicly. But in a move apparently to further mask its donors, the center has been working with an affiliated Delaware-based limited liability company, Corner Table, which doesn’t have to reveal its contributors at all, according to tax documents filed by Freedom Partners. James Davis, a Freedom Partners spokesman, said that his group's $115 million grant was “designated to CPPR but the actual check was sent to Corner Table.”



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1. California does lead the way.

[AleksS]

2. If only this led somewhere

If only this sent those Kochroaches away for a while. But I'm sure it'll be another "You're rich, so it's OK" moment.

A boy can dream though!