How Dark Money Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 in the Citizens United case that political contributions are speech and should be protected, the floodgates of anonymous political contributions have opened. But does absolute funding corrupt absolutely?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stucky Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.4	Bush and Ducacas on Crime.
0:43.6	Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers.
0:46.6	Ducacas not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend
0:51.3	passes from prison.
0:53.0	One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery stabbing him 19 times.
0:57.8	Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison.
1:02.4	Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend.
1:07.4	Weekend prison passes.
1:09.2	Ducacas on Crime.
1:11.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:12.6	I'm Josh Clark.
1:13.8	There's Charles W. B. Chuck Bryant.
1:15.4	There's Jerry over there.
1:16.8	What you've just heard was something we brought back with us from 1988 via the way back
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