Mayer has followed the trail of the tax-deductible “dark money” the brothers have secretly donated to political causes absorbed the work of dozens of outstanding independent investigative journalists ferreted out articles, speeches and interviews the brothers, or their advisers, have given, many of them quite revelatory and secured access to previously unpublished sources. That effort may have backfired: Since that first article, Ms. When Jane Mayer published her 10,000-word article about Charles and David Koch in The New Yorker in August 2010, David Koch denounced her piece in print and, as she reports in her new book, “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” a “private investigative firm with powerful political and law enforcement connections was retained.” While there was no hard evidence on who had hired the firm, “clues leading back to the Kochs were everywhere.”
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