A Peek Inside JPMorgan's World (they're pre-empting already)

The Public Center of Integrity ^ | November 10th, 2010 | Julie Vorman

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GOP-Led House May Underfund Staff Required by Dodd-Frank Law

Reform watchers should make time to read an internal memo issued by Wall Street bank JPMorgan that says House Republicans may “seek to use the appropriations process to slow implementation of Dodd-Frank by underfunding the new federal agency staff needed to get those programs off the ground. This is already happening, as Congress was unable to increase funding for new positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the recently passed Continuing Resolution, which — according to those agencies — set back enforcement of key provisions by several months.“

The 11-page memo, obtained and published by OpenSecrets.org, also says the Republican-led House will focus on some sections of the law for “oversight hearings and possible repeal,” including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, treatment of derivatives end users, the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and corporate governance provisions. The memo generally does not lay out JPMorgan’s lobbying strategies, simply saying that the bank will have “newfound opportunities to play a constructive role in the development of important public policies.” http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/2675/?utm_source=publicintegrity&utm_medium=related_heds&utm_campaign=related_bottom

THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY - (They state it's for our own good also nonprofit -nonpartisan...)

PDF link director/donor list follows Lewis' start-up story -

http://www.publicintegrity.org/assets/pdf/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf

More recent list of donors -

http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?context=about&topic=funders&id=708

Recent director list - http://www.publicintegrity.org/about/our_people/board_of_directors/

Arthur Schlesinger was an advisor for the center -

http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?src=search&context=article&id=818

http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?src=search&context=article&id=830 (there's a story at the (L) side of this link, i.e., James Johnson praising Dodd - Johnson was a Soros advisor - he's also a co-founder of Perseus but that's another story)

Charles Lewis ended up resigning or gently pushed out, next guy the same, they now have Buzenberg from NPR - happy days - I'm sure they've all been interviewed by Moyers or Rose and cleared as awesomely brilliant and honest as the days long.

Charles Lewis also opened an International center - (it's what they do - micro, small, medium, large, international, in all areas, such as, business, media, education, greenies, banking, etc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity

The Politics of the NPR Boards (50 members) -

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251648/politics-npr-boards-matthew-shaffer

Cliff Kincaid has many stories on this outfit... http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/expensive-un-reform/

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The investigative reporter used opensecrets as a source in her article. Open Source consists of some powerful lefties (they're all interesting to track) including:

Ellen S. Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation -

http://www.opensecrets.org/about/board.php

She belongs to the Sunshine Foundation etc -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight_Foundation

A Bob Ellison blog story posted at site (he blogs at Public Integrity)

http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/

Sunlight advisory board - Charles Lewis, co-founder of The Center for Public Integrity, (was supported by Arthur Schlesinger, Bill Moyers, etc), also on the board -Omigyar from e-bay, wiki Jimmy Wales, Matt Halprin, Craigs list guy, Dyson is into Russia – interviewed by Charlie Rose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/

Sunshine Funding (Soros, Rockefella, Omidyar, et al)

http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/

e-Bay Omidyar Network

http://news.muckety.com/2008/10/22/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-will-increase-grants-and-investments/6011

No links at "muckety" which is interesting, checked them out -> Muckety LLC

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=533

Arnold /Michelle/ R Kennedy worked with Michelle Obama (no wonder CA' broke) - information, re: the two Michelles at csrwire.com – they have a search engine. I have some if anyone wants them.

The Center for Public Integrity also accepts donations from Freedom House

Freedom house...contin

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Did you get a screen capture?

What’s a ‘stub’?

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No, unfortunately I didn’t get a capture, don’t know how to do it anyway. :) A stub is when it’s incomplete. Ellen Miller’s was more than complete. Oh, well...

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Um....curious why was your post in #2 deleted?

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e-Bay Omidyar Network
http://news.muckety.com/2008/10/22/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-will-increase-grants-and-investments/6011

There were no connections at Muckety so I did a search via Muckety LLC for the board members...

“Muckety is published by Muckety LLC, a company founded in 2006 by a team with years of experience in journalism, technology and online publishing. The daily news and information site is based on online databases, extensive research and old-fashioned journalism. But one of the key strengths of the Muckety site is the interactive map display of news and articles, similar to CNET’s Big Picture.

After performing a search and choosing from the search results, you’ll get a map that shows connections between people and organizations. To view descriptions of the relations, click anywhere on the map to activate it. When you pass your mouse over connecting lines, you’ll see a popup box describing the connections. Solid lines represent current relationships; dotted lines show former relationships. You can also re-center a map around one or more players by clicking on the map background and dragging your mouse to draw a temporary box around them. The chosen boxes will be highlighted in pink.”
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=533

The map at visual complexity will bring me to Gannett News Service, USA Today etc., which will connect to Freedom Forum funder -> The Center for Public Integrity -> Charles Lewis -> Sunlight. Charles Lewis is on both the Public Integrity and Sunlight boards. Charles Lewis began with the Public Integrity (medium), made it into an International site (large), and Sunlight will be the max-daddy by the time they’re finished. See map next post...

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Muckety LLC connects to Gannett, USA Today which links to Freedom Forum et al, donated to Public Integrity since their birth.

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Global Integrity began in June 1999 as a project of the
enter for Public Integrity - (another mac-daddy)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Public_Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/assets/pdf/2000_CPI_Annual_Report.pdf
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?context=about&topic=funders&id=708

Freedom Forum Inc
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4317914

Freedom Forum

CHARLES L. OVERBY, chairman, chief executive officer and president
Brentwood, Tenn.
Former newspaper editor and former vice president/news, Gannett Co.

MICHAEL COLEMAN
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Newspaper management consultant; chairman, Cool Media Consultants; and former chairman, Cape Publications

MALCOLM R. KIRSCHENBAUM
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Lawyer and civic leader

BETTE BAO LORD
New York City
Author

JAN NEUHARTH
Middleburg, Va.
President, Paper Chase Farms

H. WILBERT NORTON JR.
Oxford, Miss.
Dean, Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi

PETER S. PRICHARD
Essex, Conn.
Former editor of USA Today

ORAGE QUARLES III
Raleigh, N.C.
President and publisher, The News & Observer

JUDY C. WOODRUFF
Washington, D.C.
Journalist, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

Founder

ALLEN H. NEUHARTH
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Founder of the Freedom Forum and Newseum; founder of USA TODAY and former chairman and chief executive officer, Gannett Co.

Secretary

HOWARD BAKER
Lawyer; former U.S. Senate majority leader, presidential chief of staff and U.S. ambassador to Japan
Huntsville, Tenn.

Deputy Secretary

BRUCE DOEG
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz
Nashville, Tenn.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18012&printerfriendly=1

Freedom - Newseum Board of Trustees...
Newseum Board of Trustees

08.12.10

CHARLES L. OVERBY, chief executive officer
Brentwood, Tenn.
Former newspaper editor and former vice president/news, Gannett Co.

ALBERTO IBARGÜEN, chairman
Miami
President and chief executive officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

LOUIS D. BOCCARDI
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Former president and chief executive officer, The Associated Press

KATHY CALVIN
Ellicott City, Md.
Executive vice president and chief operating officer, UN Foundation

STEVE CAPUS
New York, N.Y.
President, NBC News

SHELBY COFFEY III
McLean, Va.
Former editor, Los Angeles Times, president, CNN Business News, and executive vice president, ABC News

MICHAEL COLEMAN
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Newspaper management consultant; chairman, Cool Media Consultants; and former chairman, Cape Publications

MICHAEL G. GARTNER
Des Moines, Iowa
Principal owner, Iowa Cubs baseball team, and former president, NBC News

GARY L. GINSBERG
New York City
Executive vice president, Time Warner

GEORGE IRISH
New York City
Vice president and eastern director, Hearst Foundations

MALCOLM R. KIRSCHENBAUM
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Lawyer and civic leader

BETTE BAO LORD (wife of a Clintonite)
New York City
Author

H. WILBERT NORTON JR.
Oxford, Miss.
Dean, Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi

PETER S. PRICHARD
Essex, Conn.
Former editor of USA Today

MYRTA PULLIAM
Indianapolis
Journalist and philanthropist

WILLIAM H. STRONG
Chicago, Ill.
Managing director and vice chairman, Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley

DAVID WESTIN
New York City
President, ABC News

ANTHONY A. WILLIAMS
Washington, D.C.
Executive director, Corporate Executive Board

JUDY C. WOODRUFF
Washington, D.C.
Journalist, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=18010&printerfriendly=1

First Amendment Center

I don’t know if they donate but obviously love the ACLU as they’re all over their website...
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

Founders Diversity Wing

They give very little to this forum...
http://freedomforumdiversity.org/who-we-are/founders/

Hearst Journalism Award Program

The program director and the steering committee meet twice a year at the summer and winter ASJMC conventions.

Douglas A. Anderson, Dean
Pennsylvania State University
College of communications

Chair, Steering Committee Beth E. Barnes, Director
University of Kentucky
School of Journalism and Telecommunications

Dorothy Bland, Director
Florida A&M University
Division of Journalism

Lorraine E. Branham, Dean
Syracuse University
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Ann Brill, Dean

University of Kansas
William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Christopher Callahan, Dean
Arizona State University
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Jean Folkerts, Dean
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Maria B. Marron, Chair
Central Michigan University
Department of Journalism

H. Wilbert Norton, Jr., Dean
University of Mississippi
School of Journalism and News Media

Paul Parsons, Dean
Elon University
School of Communications
http://www.hearstfdn.org/hearst_journalism/about.php?type=Steering

JAN NEUHARTH (Founder - Al Neuharth’s daughter)

Freedom Forum (President of Paper Chase Farms, VA) – http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Neuharth_Jan_4568035.aspx

Janet Neuharth Freedom Forum - (lawyer) linked to Lee Tech -> Booz Allen -> Richard Holbrooke – Perseus. Also on the boards of Coca-Cola, AOL Time Warner, and Human Genome, and American International Group Inc. McAlarty whose a partner with Kissenger. The Clinonites are everywhere...I’ve checked and tis true...
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=4905206&ticker=MBRG:US&previousCapId=855729&previousTitle=Lee%20Technologies%2C%20Inc.
Started here and then above link
http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=11324199

Freedom Forum Inc. (founded 1991) - Assets - $910,464,510

These people are all in bed with each other - NPR/PBS/Gannett/USA Today...Clintonites...makes ones head spin...and they’re just gearing up for our guys next year!

There’s something drastically wrong with it all though...how can we get decent news reports when they’re also in bed with the Dhims.

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How We’re Funded

The Sunlight Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

Sunlight was launched in April 2006 with a $3.5 million contribution from co-founder Michael Klein (Click here to read a Washington Post story about the launch of Sunlight).

2010
Michael Klein $3,000,000.00

Omidyar Network
$1,472,184.00

Foundation to Promote Open Society
$300,000.00

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$265,000.00

craigslist Charitable Fund
$50,000.00

Adobe §
$50,000.00

Alan A. Fischer
$50,000.00

The National Priorities Project Inc.
$37,800.00

Google §
$20,000.00

Volgenau Family Fund
$20,000.00

Palantir Technologies Inc. §
$10,000.00

Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism
$10,000.00

Google ¶
$10,000.00

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
$5,000.00

Raymond C. Clevenger, III
$5,000.00

O’Reilly Media, Inc. (royalty check from the book Beautiful Data, 1st Edition)
$4,844.18

NIHCM Foundation Journalism Award
$2,000.00

The Springcreek Foundation
$1,500.00

Bernie Loves CeCe Trust
$1,000.00

Eleanore Leavitt De Sole
$1,000.00

Stanton and Susan Sloane
$1,000.00

Amanda Milstein
$500.00

Randall Leeds
$500.00

Lawrence Lessig
$500.00

Online Searches, LLC
$500.00

362 gifts under $250
$7,417.36 2009

Omidyar Network
$4,000,000.00

Michael Klein
$850,000.00

Rockefeller Family Fund
$850,000.00

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$565,000.00

Google
$66,067.00

The Kaphan Foundation
$25,000.00

Jewish Community Endowment Fund (Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund) ††
$10,000.00

Elbaz Family Foundation
$10,000.00

Cutts Foundation
$10,000.00

Anita M. Antenucci
$5,000.00

Google (in-kind donation)
$4,788.00

O’Reilly Media, Inc. (royalty check from the book Beautiful Data, 1st Edition)
$3,009.58

Blue State Digital LLC †
$2,000.00

Andrew C. Florance Charitable Fund
$2,000.00

Robert S. Grimes, Esq.
$1,000.00

The San Francisco Foundation
$1,000.00

Armeane M. Choksi
$1,000.00

Ross & Moncure, Inc.
$1,000.00

Dr. & Mrs. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr.
$1,000.00

Leonard Simon Clow
$600.00

Google †
$500.00

TheCapitol.Net
$500.00

55 gifts under $250

$2,548.76 2008

Pew Charitable Trust *
$2,427,200.00

Omidyar Network
$2,000,000.00

Michael Klein
$500,000.00

Rockefeller Family Fund
$500,000.00

Open Society Institute
$250,000.00

ProPublica
$50,000.00

Blum Family Foundation
$50,000.00

Shel Kaphan
$50,000.00

Miles Curtain Laws Robinson
$25,000.00

Cutts Foundation
$25,000.00

Stuart Marshall Bloch and Julia Chang Bloch
$10,000.00

Gerson and Barbara Bakar
$10,000.00

Robert L. Miller
$10,000.00

Sage Foundation
$10,000.00

Elbaz Family Foundation
$10,000.00

Raymond C. Clevenger, III
$5,000.00

James and Theodore Pedas Family Foundation, Inc.
$5,000.00

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
$2,500.00

Sunil Pail and Michelle Odom Foundation
$2,000.00

Springcreek Advisors
$1,125.00

Schwab Charitable Fund
$1,000.00

Matthew Regan and Yoon-Young Lee
$1,000.00

Lisa and Gregory Stanger Charitable Foundation
$1,000.00

Kobayashi Family Foundation
$1,000.00

Bank of America
$1,000.00

Conrad Cafritz
$1,000.00

LaSalle D. Leffall
$1,000.00

Chad J. Fitzgerald
$500.00

Kobayashi Family Foundation
$442.00

Anonymous money order
$300.00

30 gifts $250 or less
$2,925.00 2007

Omidyar Network
$2,000,000.00

Rockefeller Family Fund
$1,000,000.00

David Bonderman
$250,000.00

Sage Foundation
$50,000.00

Blum Family Foundation
$50,000.00

Fischer & Company, LLC
$40,000.00

Ted and Jim Pedas / Circle Management Company
$25,000.00

Fuller Foundation
$20,000.00

Raymond C. Clevenger, III
$10,000.00

Springcreek Foundation
$6,000.00

CRESA Partners of Greater Washington
$2,500.00

Peter Gottesman, CRESA Partners
$2,500.00

Springcreek Advisors, LLC
$2,125.00

Domenico and Eleanor De Sole
$1,000.00

Artifex Software, Inc.
$1,000.00

Five gifts of $250 or less
$555.00 2006

Rockefeller Family Fund
$1,900,000.00

N. Colin Lind
$100,000.00

Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
$100,000.00

Fuller Foundation
$20,000.00

Fischer & Company, LLC
$15,000.00

Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc.
$5,000.00

Springcreek Advisors, LLC
$3,125.00

Seven gifts $250 or less
$945.00 2005

Michael Klein
$3,500,000.00 To see information on our grantees, check out Grants and Grantees page. To apply for a grant from the Sunlight Foundation, contact us for guidelines.
http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/