The Dark Money Game Season 1 Episode 1 - Ohio Confidential

Airdate: 2025-Apr-15

Episode summary:

When a powerful political lobbyist is found shot to death, his apparent suicide highlights a bizarre turn in Ohio's largest public corruption case accidently uncovered by federal investigators that was nearly concealed by loose super PAC campaign financing rules.FBI wiretap recordings ultimately unravel a conspiracy involving a secret $61 million-dollar slush fund for Ohio's Speaker of the House to secure power in order to pay back corporate donors with a billion-dollar corporate bailout at the expense of the state's taxpayers.

About The Dark Money Game series:

The Dark Money Game films investigate the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court's decision in ...Show more >