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).
NLPC Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting John Eastman in Disbarment Dispute
On October 14, NLPC filed a friend of the court brief with the Supreme Court urging it to hear Trump lawyer John Eastman’s petition to have the court reverse the California Supreme Court ruling that upheld his disbarment. Joining NLPC’s brief were three lawyers with...
Bar Complaint Filed Against Letitia James in Cornell 7 Case
On Friday, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) against New York Attorney General Letitia James for “violating the Rules of Professional Conduct by making public statements about the Cornell...
Billionaires Soros, Wyss, Hoffman Fund ‘Grassroots’ Talarico Campaign
"Everything in Texas is best," goes a popular Texas expression. It would be hard to apply it to James Talarico. A Democratic state lawmaker, Talarico is running against conservative Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate seat of John Cornyn,...
Criminal Complaint Filed Against Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon for Not Disclosing IRS, Student Debt
National Legal and Policy Center has filed a complaint against Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon with the Senate Ethics Committee and the U.S. Attorney for Northern Florida for filing false financial disclosure statements. Click here for the complaint. The...
Congress Looks at Nonprofit Abuses: Will Soros & Singham Ever Be Made Accountable?
If billionaire-supported nonprofit groups, including the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, can get away with subsidizing radical political groups under the guise of philanthropy, much of the blame rests with a lack of government oversight. Some frustrated...
FL Senate Candidate Angie Nixon Broke Rules by Not Disclosing IRS and Student Loan Debt That She Refuses to Repay
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year—in addition to her husband's unpublished...
NLPC Demands Financial Documents After ‘Stunning’ Dismissal of Complaint Against Ilhan Omar
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar is demanding the public release of documents related to the NLPC-triggered investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC). The panel cleared Omar of wrongdoing regarding her false financial disclosures...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Must Go Now; Why is Justice Roberts Applauding His Woke Record?
The Smithsonian describes its Secretary position as "the chief executive officer of the Institution," with authority over 21 museums and the National Zoo. The present Secretary, Lonnie Bunch, announced on September 8 that he will retire by year's end. That’s waiting...
The Ethics Reporter Looks at NLPC’s Bar Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll Attorney Roberta Kaplan
From The Ethics Reporter story titled Thirty-Two Days, Two Sentences: New York’s Grievance Committee Tosses the Ethics Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer: It took the National Legal and Policy Center months to research and draft its 15-page ethics complaint...
NLPC Appeals Dismissal of Bar Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer Roberta Kaplan
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed an appeal of the rejection of its complaint against E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan by the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) of the New York Supreme Court. On August 3, the Committee, or rather its Chief...
Soros-Funded Indivisible Tries to Embrace Dolly Parton
Ezra Levin, the cofounder of the protest group Indivisible, opened a recent email to followers with a tribute to Dolly Parton. Quoting essayist Rebecca Solnit, he urged recipients to “be what she was.” Activist Levin’s embrace of Dolly’s legacy is bizarre. She spent...
ICE-Baiting Rep. McIver Not Protected by Congressional Immunity, Court Rules
A federal appeals court delivered LaMonica McIver a defeat on August 26, ruling that the New Jersey congresswoman is not shielded from prosecution for her role in the chaos at Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark. A divided panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court...
Hasan Piker Confirms Neville Singham Funding Network; Democrats Disown Hate Merchant — Sort Of
Twitch star Hasan Piker built an audience of millions with hard-left commentary. In recent months he has handed critics something more useful than talking points. Piker's own words, spoken on his own broadcasts, now confirm what his fans spent years denying — his...
Good Riddance! Harry and Meghan Head Home to Britain
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent six years trying to make it in America. Now they're leaving. The couple reportedly plans to settle outside London this fall, pulling their children out of American schools in favor of British ones, a quiet admission that the West...
Soros’ Open Society Is Not Popper’s
George Soros has spent more than four decades telling the world he is philosopher Karl Popper's heir. Soros named his sprawling philanthropic network the Open Society Foundations (OSF) after Popper's 1945 book, credits Popper as the formative influence of his life,...
Self-Proclaimed Communist Singham Cries McCarthyism Over House Subpoenas
Three nonprofits tied to Neville Roy Singham, who is worth hundreds of millions, are fighting congressional subpoenas by comparing themselves to victims of the Red Scare. The irony is hard to miss. Singham calls himself a socialist and lives in Shanghai, capital of a...
Replacing the Electoral College: A Soros-Aided Power Play
The Electoral College, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, defines how we elect presidents. The candidate who gets the most votes in a state wins the vote of appointed electors whose numbers equal those of that state's congressional delegation. Nationally, the victor...
New York Times’ Kristof Disclosed Payments but Not From Gates
Nicholas Kristof, the longtime New York Times opinion columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, spent part of the summer disclosing donors from his failed 2022 run for Oregon governor. The paper appended correction notices to nine of his columns, acknowledging he...
New Documents Show Jack Smith Let Swalwell Skate in Chinese Spy Case
The White House on August 17 declassified FBI files documenting Rep. Eric Swalwell’s yearslong relationship with suspected Chinese intelligence asset Christine “Fang Fang” Fang. The records, released through the administration’s Government Transparency Task Force, lay...
Why Did Mangione’s Murder Charge Become ‘Stalking’?
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar has an op-ed in today's Washington Examiner: While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s,...
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...