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Alex Gibney Follows Dark Money in Politics in HBO Docs: "Ohio Confidential" & "Wealth of the Wicked"

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our conversation with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, he discusses in detail his new set of documentaries.

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0:00.0

This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

0:09.8

We're continuing part two with our conversation with the Oscar winning director, Alex Gibney.

0:16.6

He has a new series out called The Dark Money Game.

0:19.5

Alex is the award-winning director of Enron, the smartest guys in the room,

0:25.8

Going Clear, Scientology, and the Prison of Belief, and the Oscar-winning taxi to the dark side.

0:32.2

But tonight, HBO is premiering his two-part series.

0:43.3

It's called The Dark Money Game, and it's divided in two parts. Tonight is Ohio Confidential.

0:46.3

This is a clip.

0:48.3

I kind of like the word dark shadowy.

0:51.3

I don't know what shadowy is.

0:53.3

I hear what you're saying.

0:55.0

Now, my problem with the dark money is that nobody really knows that that's an unreported.

1:00.0

You know, contributors don't have to report their name.

1:02.0

Secret groups.

1:03.0

Secret groups.

1:04.0

Secret, secret,

1:05.0

the eye behind, yeah.

1:07.0

Right.

1:08.0

That's what I'd rather do. It's just make sure that people live that, there's secret people who we don't know that are trying to tell us what to do.

1:18.1

That's a clip from the Dark Money game.

1:21.9

It's actually part one that's premiering tonight.

1:25.1

And that's called Ohio Confidential. So Alex Gibney, lay it out for us,

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