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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groups

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groups:

Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groups

New York Times

Well-known corporate chiefs, including power philanthropist Eli Broad, funded illegal "dark money" contributions to groups in the Koch brothers' political networkthat were involved in Thursday's record campaign finance settlement in California, according to settlement documents. 

A report in the L.A. Times shows that Broad posed as a liberal supporter of Gov. Brown's tax initiative to support public education by making the wealthy pay their fair share. All the while, Broad was secretly pouring more than a million dollars into the right-wing, anti-union fund set up to oppose that same initiative. 

Duplicitous Broad
A Huffington report shows that Charles Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Corp., donated $6.4 million through Americans for Job Security. Broad, who publicly backed Brown's tax increase proposition, made a