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Truth-Out
March 14, 2018
A billionaire-funded political organization operating out of a PO Box in Herndon, Virginia, with no employees or volunteers doesn't exactly scream "social welfare." But that's precisely what a pro-Trump group, called 45Committee, claims it exists to do. New tax documents obtained by OpenSecrets show thatÃâà...
Free Speech TV
February 15, 2018
Viveca Novak, investigative editor for McClatchy Washington Bureau, joins David to discuss suspected Russian funneling of money to the Trump campaign through the National Rifle Association (NRA). Donald Trump NRA RussiaÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
November 21, 2017
In 2014, he won, with colleague Viveca Novak, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Online Journalism for a series of stories published on OpenSecrets Blog. Robert has a masters in U.S. foreign policy from American University. Before coming to Washington,Ãâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
November 15, 2017
The National Rifle Association's overall spending surged by more than $100 million in 2016, surpassing any previous annual NRA spending totals on record, according to an audit obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics. The explosion in spending came as the NRA poured unprecedented amountsÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
September 1, 2017
In 2014, he won, with colleague Viveca Novak, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Online Journalism for a series of stories published on OpenSecrets Blog. Robert has a masters in U.S. foreign policy from American University. Before coming to Washington,Ãâà...
Buffalo News
May 21, 2017
Viveca Novak, editorial and communications director for the Center for Responsive Politics – which keeps track of political fundraisers on its Politcal Party Time website (politicalpartytime.org) – said that while her organization was unaware of the Collins fundraisers, they didn't seem all that unusual.
Center for Responsive Politics
May 19, 2017
We'll stipulate that President Trump's problems with the Federal Election Commission don't rise to the highest tier of his concerns these days, not by a long shot. In his hierarchy of hazards, newly appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller must loom rather large, while he might think of the FEC staff as aÃâà...
Huffington Post
March 31, 2017
by Viveca Novak. Tennessee GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn was one of the foremost opponents of the FCC rule. (Ron Sachs / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch/IPX). Tennessee GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn was one of the foremost opponents of the FCC rule. The House's vote Tuesday approving a resolution thatÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
March 10, 2017
by Viveca Novak and Emily Dalgo on March 10, 2017. President Donald Trump, third from right, and first lady Melania Trump, hidden at. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seated next to him, at dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Feb. 10, shortly before they had to scramble to react to a North KoreanÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
July 15, 2016
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chose Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, he dealt a potentially serious blow to his fundraising prospects, lawyers are saying. Pence is a sitting governor. That means contributions to the ticket will be limited by the SEC's 2010 pay to playÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
June 21, 2016
Last month, Donald Trump tweeted that his campaign had “perhaps more cash than any campaign in the history of politics.” New Federal Election Commission filings show that he was very, very wrong. At the end of May, Trump's campaign had nearly $1.3 million in cash on hand, putting him significantlyÃâà...
Center for Responsive Politics
December 12, 2011
An award-winning investigative journalist and former deputy director of FactCheck.org, Viveca Novak, has joined the Center for Responsive Politics as the nonpartisan organization's editorial and communications director. Novak will oversee the Center's partnerships, new media outreach and originalÃâà...
TIME
December 13, 2005
It was in the midst of another Washington scandal, almost a decade ago, that I got to know Bob Luskin. He represented Mark Middleton, a minor figure in the Democratic campaign-finance scandals of 1996. Luskin kept Middleton out of the spotlight and never told me much. Still, there is the occasionalÃâà...
