GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY PROJECT
NLPC “blows the whistle” on government officials and interest groups engaged in questionable and illegal activities, often based on original investigation and research. NLPC has filed formal Complaints with a variety of authorities and regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Election Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and Congressional Ethics Committees.
NLPC also supports government integrity by utilizing and promoting the use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
DC’s Top Bar Enforcer Discovers What Barfare Feels Like
Hamilton "Phil" Fox III (in photo) built a career punishing lawyers who crossed political lines he found dangerous. Now the Justice Department says he crossed a few of his own. Who Is Phil Fox? Fox, 80, took charge of the District of Columbia's Office of Disciplinary...
That Was Quick: NY Bar Bounces Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer
The body that enforces ethics rules for New York attorneys has apparently dropped even the pretense of political impartiality. The Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) of the New York Supreme Court has already rejected a complaint, filed on July 2, against Roberta...
SEC Chairman Atkins to Corporate America: You Aren’t Silencing Shareowners Fast Enough
(Part Two of two — read Part One here) The most important sentence in Paul Atkins's July 9 speech to corporate lawyers in Nashville never made it into the speech. It sits in footnote 13. More than 150 questions went in the trash — and he wanted more Some background a...
SEC Chairman Atkins Wants Buck to Stop Where Shareholders Can’t Reach It
(Part One of two --- read Part Two here) Earlier this month Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (pictured above) was welcomed to Nashville at the National Conference of the Society for Corporate Governance. Based on his remarks, his reception by...
Gates Foundation Pays Law Firm to Clear Bill Gates on Epstein
The Gates Foundation released the results of its long-awaited review of Jeffrey Epstein ties last week, and the verdict, delivered by a law firm the foundation hired and paid, cleared founder Bill Gates of wrongdoing. Foundation chief executive Mark Suzman retained...
NLPC Sued the SEC, Then Homeland Security Came Calling
National Legal and Policy Center sued the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 15 over records, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request made by NLPC, that the agency has withheld for more than a year. Days later, a Homeland Security officer called with...
Soros’ $30 Million Campaign for False Moral Equivalence
Improving fractious relations between Jews and Muslims is a monumental task. A $30 million project announced this May by the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations (OSF) isn't likely to break the impasse. If anything, it could make matters worse. Unveiling the...
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...
AOC Used Campaign Funds for Psychiatric Treatment from Ketamine Doctor
Gabrielle Fahmy reports in the New York Post that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent more than $18,000 from her campaign for mental health treatment, apparently in violation of the law. AOC received therapy from Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at...