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Comcast’s $8.6 Billion Sky Writedown Foreshadows Brian Roberts’s Next Divestiture
In the third quarter of 2022, Comcast recorded an $8.6 billion noncash impairment charge against the goodwill and intangible assets of its Sky segment. That impairment — the largest single writedown in Comcast Corporation history — was attributed to "an increased...
Roberts Unwinds Roberts: Comcast Concedes, Governance Problem is Tripled
On Sunday, Comcast Corporation announced the breakup of the most ambitious media conglomerate of the past quarter-century — the very conglomerate Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts spent fifteen years assembling. NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun...
Why NLPC Has a Corporate Integrity Project: It Takes an Organization
If the shareholder proposal is the one channel a small owner has left, why doesn't every frustrated investor use it? Because the channel is a gauntlet. Walk it once and the surprise is not that so few owners try — it is that anyone does. Start with the ticket of...
From Climate Alarmism to R.I.P. ‘Climate Stupidity:’ Judith Curry Moves On
From 2008 through 2010 I managed an independent project that brought attention to the environmental left's propaganda and activism in support of distorted climate change science and related policies. My focus was mainly at the state level, so the initiative took me to...
Why NLPC Has a Corporate Integrity Project: Who Votes Your Shares?
In 2021, the biggest names on Wall Street could not sign climate and diversity pledges fast enough. By early 2025, they were racing for the exits. What changed in those four years was not the wishes of the people whose money they manage. Those owners were never polled...
Why NLPC Has a Corporate Integrity Project: When Companies Shop in Washington
In the late 1980s, the banker Charles Keating had a problem. Federal regulators were circling his savings-and-loan, and they did not like what they found. His answer was not to clean up the business. It was to buy the referees. Keating had given five U.S. senators...
Why NLPC Has a Corporate Integrity Project: Whose Company Is It?
If you hold a 401(k), an IRA, or a pension, you are an owner of corporate America. Your savings sit inside hundreds of the largest companies in the country, and on paper those firms belong to you and to tens of millions of savers like you. You have almost no say in...
Oreo Cuts ‘Pride’ Page, Keeps PFLAG; Now CEO Chairs Bud Light’s Parent
It's June, but in the month hijacked by LGBTQ identity politics, "Pride" has vanished from Oreo's website. The brand's dedicated "oreo.com/pride" page, once a showcase for its partnership with activist group PFLAG, now redirects to a gentler page titled "Bringing...
Delta’s Governance Shortcomings Lead to Operational Stumbles; Reform is Needed
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Delta Air Lines, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member...
Netflix’s Susan Rice Threatened Corporate America; Adam Schiff Plans to Put Teeth to It
When Susan Rice appeared on Preet Bharara's podcast in February and warned corporations that they would be "caught with more than their pants down" if they accommodated President Trump, many wrote it off as the frustration of a former Obama official with no...
One in Three Wells Fargo Shareholders Backed NLPC; Numbers Show Why The Vote Was Justified
When National Legal and Policy Center presented its case for an independent Board Chair at Wells Fargo's April 28 annual meeting, management did not directly address the concerns raised. The quarterly results that have since arrived help explain why. NLPC's proposal —...
Mastercard’s Board Has China & Politicization Conflicts; More Accountability Needed
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Mastercard Incorporated. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member...
Comcast Class A Shareholders Reject $107M Co-CEO Pay as Stock Slid 20%
Comcast Corporation paid its Co-CEO team a combined $107 million for 2025 — $35.15 million to Chairman and Co-CEO Brian Roberts (up 4 percent from 2024) and $71.76 million to Co-CEO Michael J. Cavanagh (a 154 percent jump from his $28.26 million 2024 package) — in a...
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Bar Complaint Filed Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer Roberta Kaplan
NLPC today filed a complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) of the New York State Supreme Court against Roberta Ann Kaplan for violating the Rules of Professional Conduct regarding the outside funding of E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation lawsuits against...
SEC’s Diversity Boss Uses Official Credentials to Sell Private DEI Consulting Work
Nathaniel H. Benjamin (pictured above) has spent two decades selling diversity. He built a federal agency's diversity office from the ground up, holds Georgetown's executive certificate in the field, and now runs the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of...
Omar Says She is Broke in New Filing; ‘She Can’t Keep Her Story Straight’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has filed her financial disclosure form for 2025. It confirms what we have believed all along, that her husband Tim Mynett’s two businesses are failures, a far cry from her original 2024 disclosure report showing that they were worth between $6...
Will Billionaire (and Soros Ally) Tom Steyer Control California?
Leftist billionaires are an odd lot. Having accumulated great wealth through capitalism, they donate enormous sums to organizations committed to socialism. George Soros and the lesser-known Neville Singham epitomize this type, though mercifully without seeking public...
More AOC Campaign Cash for Ketamine Doctor
Rep. Alexandria Ocazio-Cortez (D-NY) has spent another $4,550 in campaign funds for a psychiatrist, according to her latest filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the first quarter to 2026. She had previously paid almost $19,000 to the doctor, known for...
Omar ‘insults the intelligence of her constituents or shows how really stupid she is’
Andrew Kerr in the Washington Free Beacon details more fallout from Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) filing of an amendment to her 2024 financial disclosures showing that she’s not worth as much as $30 million, as she originally reported. She blamed the difference on an...
Omar Amends Filings to Show She is Not Wealthy; Her Excuse is ‘Laughable’
In apparent response to NLPC’s February 16 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), she has amended her financial disclosure report to show what we suspected all along, that her husband Tim Mynett is not successful in his businesses, and that the couple is not worth...
The Tactical Purge of Eric Swalwell
The political demise of Eric Swalwell is being framed by the mainstream media as a long-overdue reckoning—a moment where the Democratic Party finally decided that personal scandals and questionable associations are disqualifying. But for those of us who monitor...
Did Swalwell Use Campaign Funds to Facilitate Alleged Rape?
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Disbursements from Eric Swalwell's campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign...
It’s Time for Saudi Arabia to Make Whole Pensacola Terror Victims
From my op-ed in the April 14 Washington Times: President Trump can take a large share of the credit for a deeper, more fundamental shift in Middle East geopolitics than the Iran conflict. It’s the extraordinary transformation of the Saudi-U.S. alliance, which in...
Soros Money Drenches Virginia for Gerrymandering Campaign
Gerrymandering, the practice by which the majority party in a state legislature redraws congressional maps in ways that maximize the party’s representation in Congress, at times with bizarre boundaries, suddenly is a political weapon of choice. California voters last...
Which Supreme Court Justice Invited De Niro to Birthright Hearing?
The following letter to the editor by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar appeared in the Washington Times: As a member of the Supreme Court Bar, I had the privilege last week to sit in the front section, reserved for bar members, during the oral argument challenging President...
Ethics Complaint Filed Against AOC for Using Campaign Funds for Ketamine Doctor
National Legal and Policy Center on March 27 filed a complaint jointly with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Conduct against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). From the Complaint, drafted by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar: NLPC alleges...
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THE BILLIONAIRES DESTROYING AMERICA
We are pulling back the curtain on the billionaires bankrolling our nation’s division and chaos.
Why do the biggest beneficiaries of capitalism fund Marxists? Why do the wealthy, who have gotten rich because of the rule of law and orderly markets, support anarchists and activists who would tear it all down?
The answer is simple. They seek to buy off the forces that would question the morality of their wealth. It is a cowardly and shortsighted strategy. To save our country, the rest of us must make sure that they fail!
Senior Fellow Carl F. Horowitz researches and writes about the so-called Open Society Foundations, with assets of $25 billion, funded by George Soros and now managed by his son, Alex Soros.
Senior Fellow Dr. Steven J. Allen follows the Gates Foundation, formerly the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Combined with a related entity, the Gates Foundation Trust, its assets total $163 billion.
Our staff also tracks LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who has dumped $200 million in politics and activism since 2012. Hoffman’s funding of “law fare,” political dirty tricks, and false-flag operations, demonstrates his recklessness and disdain for democratic norms.
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Corporate corruption. Boardroom blunders.
ESG gone wild. In the #WeToldYouSo series, NLPC’s Paul Chesser connects the dots between our early warnings and the corporate disasters that followed.
From Disney’s boardroom chaos to GM’s EV retreat, these stories prove one thing:
we saw it coming — and we said so.
#WeToldYouSo: Vote on NLPC’s Colgate Proposal Exposes Corporate America’s DEI Deception
On May 8, Colgate-Palmolive held its annual shareholder meeting, and investors voted on a National Legal and Policy Center proposal to remove race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation from the criteria the company uses to select its directors. Nearly 97% voted...
UPDATED — #WeToldYouSo Times Three: Overboarded Barra Writes Off More Losses for GM
Update Oct. 16, 2025 11:45 a.m. ET: We are reminded of another unfulfilled promise Mary Barra made about GM's electric vehicle future: General Motors is on track to largely miss its goal of surpassing Tesla in EV market share in the US. Back in 2021, CEO Mary...
#WeToldYouSo: Comcast is Flailing Under Brian Roberts’s Control
Last week we pointed out how NBC's "The Tonight Show" embarrassingly needed the guest appearance of Fox News's Greg Gutfeld, a rival/competitor, to inject some ratings life into the graveyard of late night variety programs. The show highlighted the decline of the...
The NLPC Report Podcast: WeToldYouSo
From the National Legal and Policy Center Podcast: The NLPC Report For years, the National Legal and Policy Center has been shouting from the rooftops: Stop dumping shareholder cash into “green” projects that collapse the second government...
