"Now that 2011 is upon us, we pause to review the most notable money-in-politics events during a waning 2010, as determined by the staff of OpenSecrets.org:
1.) SUPREME COURT AXES CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING RESTRICTIONS2.) CASH EXPANSION IN FEDERAL POLITICS3.) SUPER SPENDING OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS4.) TEA PARTY BREWS VICTORIES FROM ANTI-INCUMBENT FERVOR5.) UNDISCLOSED DONORS: A RISING TIDE6.) HEALTH CARE AND FINANCIAL REFORM: SPECIAL INTEREST CATNIP7.) BP AND GOLDMAN SACHS: TOXIC POLITICAL ASSETS8.) SELF-FUNDED CANDIDATES FLAIL AND FALTER9.) DRESS REHEARSALS FOR 2012 PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS10.) CHARLIE RANGEL CENSURED BY HOUSE COLLEAGUESHonorable Mention: The Abramoff Affair
If anyone was still waiting for closure eight years after the sentencing of Jack Abramoff, they probably got it in 2010. Need an accounting? Well, one of the worst corruption scandals to hit K Street was featured in not one but two movies this year -- one a scathing documentary, the other a comedy. Abramoff the former super lobbyist-cum criminal was released from prison and brought to toil in a Baltimore pizza parlor. And Bob Ney, a congressman also convicted in the scandal, turned up in Tibet, where he is studying Buddhism at a monastery.
OpenSecrets.org's Top 10 Money-in-Politics Stories of 2010
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