“The Dark Money Man: How Sean Noble Moved the Kochs’ Cash into Politics and Made Millions”

ProPublica:

Plucked from obscurity by libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, Noble was tasked with distributing a torrent of political money raised by the Koch network, a complex web of nonprofits nicknamed the Kochtopus, into conservative causes in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Noble handed out almost $137 million in 2012 alone — all of it so-called dark money from unnamed donors — from his perch atop the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a group run out of an Arizona post office box.

Don’t miss the interactive graphic, which looks like a chart of the human circulatory system.

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