Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge Hits ‘Hard Times’
It looks like my instincts were right. Now even the New York Times is taking a critical look at the so-called Giving Pledge, administered by the Gates Foundation, whereby billionaires promise to give away their fortunes. Written by Theodore Schleifer, the Times...
Socialist AOC Loves Pricey Pampering in Makeup Artist’s Chair
From the New York Post, by Gabrielle Fahmy: Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who once boasted about doing her own makeup in an Instagram tutorial — shelled out more than $2,000 last fall to a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Bad...
Epstein Revelations Further Reveal Depravity That Infects Big Tech Leadership
A more in-depth look at the massive release of Jeffrey Epstein documents by CNN, published today, focuses on the activities and events that occurred on his private island, and further reveals the culture of depravity and willful blindness regarding his abuse of young...
NLPC Launches Documentary Series: Soros Exposed
Washington, D.C. – The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today proudly announces the release of its first-ever documentary series, Soros Exposed. This nine-part investigative project marks a significant milestone for the organization, expanding its...
Does Reid Hoffman Have an Undisclosed Conflict of Interest in Microsoft’s Anthropic Defense?
When Microsoft stepped into one of the most consequential legal battles in the history of American artificial intelligence this week, it did so without disclosing something its own shareholders arguably have a right to know. On Monday, Microsoft filed an amicus brief...
Socialist AOC Loves Pricey Pampering in Makeup Artist’s Chair
From the New York Post, by Gabrielle Fahmy: Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who once boasted about doing her own makeup in an Instagram tutorial — shelled out more than $2,000 last fall to a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Bad...
Epstein Revelations Further Reveal Depravity That Infects Big Tech Leadership
A more in-depth look at the massive release of Jeffrey Epstein documents by CNN, published today, focuses on the activities and events that occurred on his private island, and further reveals the culture of depravity and willful blindness regarding his abuse of young...
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge Hits ‘Hard Times’
It looks like my instincts were right. Now even the New York Times is taking a critical look at the so-called Giving Pledge, administered by the Gates Foundation, whereby billionaires promise to give away their fortunes. Written by Theodore Schleifer, the Times...
NLPC Launches Documentary Series: Soros Exposed
Washington, D.C. – The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today proudly announces the release of its first-ever documentary series, Soros Exposed. This nine-part investigative project marks a significant milestone for the organization, expanding its...
Does Reid Hoffman Have an Undisclosed Conflict of Interest in Microsoft’s Anthropic Defense?
When Microsoft stepped into one of the most consequential legal battles in the history of American artificial intelligence this week, it did so without disclosing something its own shareholders arguably have a right to know. On Monday, Microsoft filed an amicus brief...
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Governance Media Site Says NLPC ‘Increasingly Visible in High-Profile’ Corporate Battles
Recently Governance Intelligence, a U.K.-based website that focuses on news and trends for an audience made up heavily of corporate secretaries and governance professionals, interviewed NLPC's Paul Chesser, director of our Corporate Integrity Project, about his...
Exxon’s Darren Woods Has a Paris Problem
NLPC has filed a shareholder proposal ahead of ExxonMobil's 2026 annual meeting with a simple request: make the Chairman and CEO two different people. It is among the most basic reforms in corporate governance, already in place at a clear majority of S&P 500...
Walls Close in on Microsoft, Reid Hoffman; Mainstream Media Finally Asks Questions
Incorporating some of what NLPC has already reported related to Reid Hoffman's friendship and correspondence with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg has pieced together a more extensive timeline of the relationship from the Justice Department's recent...
Time for Saudi Arabia to Set Things Right with Pensacola Terror Victims
Kingdom Must Settle “Debt of Honor” with Grieving Families as American Armed Forces Fight Saudi Arch-Enemy Iran National Legal Policy Center (NLPC), a non-profit watchdog organization dedicated to promoting ethics in public life, today launched a campaign to secure...
Austin Police Who Stopped Terror Attack Targeted by Soros-Backed District Attorney
In the early morning hours of March 2, 2026, horror unfolded on Austin’s Sixth Street. At Buford’s bar, just before closing, 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne—a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal—opened fire on innocent patrons. Three people were murdered: 30-year-old...
Netflix Lost WBD Deal Due to 99% Donations to Dems, Susan Rice, and Tampons for Men
Should we call him "Tampon Ted?" According to a report this week by New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino, Netflix's months-long, $83 billion bid to acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery collapsed in part because of what Republican...
Reuters Chats w/ NLPC’s Corporate Project Director About DEI, the SEC & Shareholder Activism
Today Reuters posted a 26-minute podcast interview between Sustainable Business Correspondent Ross Kerber and the director of NLPC's Corporate Integrity Project, Paul Chesser (pictured above), in which they discussed the shareholder activism landscape; NLPC's...
Pro-DEI Bloomberg Columnist Distorts NLPC’s Shareholder Activism
On Monday Bloomberg published a commentary by liberal columnist Beth Kowitt (pictured above) that misunderstood and misrepresented NLPC's shareholder initiatives, especially as they pertain to rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion policies at major U.S....
Texas Two-Step: Reid Hoffman and the Rot at Microsoft
The 2026 Texas Senate primary between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico has provided the American public with a rare gift: a look inside the "dark money" vault of Reid Hoffman. Rep. Crockett’s campaign recently issued a blistering news release calling out Talarico...
Goldman Sachs Cuts DEI, So Chief Diversity Officer Heads for the Door
As reported recently by the Wall Street Journal and other news organizations, NLPC agreed with Goldman Sachs to withdraw a shareholder proposal it had submitted for this year's annual meeting, which requested the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion criteria...
Did Susan Rice’s Political Tirade Help Kill the Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal?
Netflix's ambitious bid to acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery — the deal that would have reshaped Hollywood — officially died on Thursday, when the WBD board declared Paramount Skydance's sweetened $111 billion bid "superior" and Netflix...
NLPC Reaches Agreement w/ Goldman Sachs to Remove DEI from Board Criteria
As we did with American Express and Deere & Company, in recent months NLPC negotiated an agreement with Goldman Sachs for the bank to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion considerations when its directors decide who they might consider adding to the board. In...
The Gates-Hoffman Connection: Is Microsoft Compromised by Epstein?
Is Reid Hoffman on Microsoft's Board of Directors because the company as a whole is compromised by associations with Jeffrey Epstein? This is the question that must be asked following the revelations published yesterday by the New York Times in an article titled “The...
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Why Would the SEC Silence Shareholders?
In a commentary published for Wednesday's print edition for the Wall Street Journal, NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty and Chief Program Officer for Ceres, Stephen M. Rothstein, wrote that recent decisions by the Securities and Exchange Commission harm the interests of...
BLOOMBERG: Colgate-Palmolive Sticks w/ DEI Priorities for Board Seats
Last week several business news sites reported that NLPC had reached agreements with companies like American Express and Deere & Company to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria from consideration for candidates for their boards of directors. NLPC had...
Verizon Mindlessly Handed Senators’ Phone Records Over to Jack Smith
Earlier this month, the United States Senate recently witnessed a masterclass in executive evasion and corporate cowardice. In a heated Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) dismantled the defense offered by Verizon’s Senior Vice President and...
UPDATE: Netflix CEO Says Company is About ‘Business;’ So Why is Susan Rice on His Board??
UPDATE Feb. 23, 11:00 a.m. ET: In response to President Trump's call for Netflix to dump former Obama administration official Susan Rice from its board of directors, the company's CEO, Ted Sarandos, commented in a BBC interview: “Yeah, this is a business deal. It’s...
#WeToldYouSo (and So Did the President): JPMorgan Chase Debanked Trump
In 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission, under then-President Joe Biden, allowed JPMorgan Chase & Co. to exclude a shareholder proposal submitted by National Legal and Policy Center from consideration for a shareholder vote at the company's annual meeting....
NLPC to Challenge Leadership Structure at Starbucks; Supports Others’ Proposals Also
Starbucks Corporation will hold its annual meeting on March 25, and NLPC will present a shareholder proposal that calls for the company to implement a policy to require the roles of Chair and CEO to be held by two different executives. Brian Niccol (pictured above)...
Sen. Blackburn Challenges Tim Cook Over Apple’s Selective ‘News’
When you purchase an iPhone, you expect a premium product. You do not necessarily expect a digital tutor that decides which news is "fit to print" (or scroll) and which opinions are too "dangerous" for your consumption. Yet, as Senator Marsha Blackburn’s recent letter...
BLOOMBERG: NLPC Pushes Amex, Deere, to Eliminate DEI for Corporate Boards
As NLPC explained earlier this month, we withdrew shareholder proposals we had submitted to American Express and Deere & Company, in which we requested their respective boards to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria for director nominees. This week...
$50 Billion Later, Automakers Discover the EV Math Never Worked
After years of hype and politically juiced projections, the electric vehicle push is colliding with the only constituency that matters in a competitive market: actual buyers. The result is a staggering shareholder bill for the EV fantasy at General Motors, Ford Motor...
Goldman Waiting Until June for Epstein-Tainted Ruemmler to Leave — Why??
National Legal and Policy Center has been a repeated critic of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon (pictured above), due to numerous examples of poor judgment. Most recently he continued to support the company's general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler despite her close, friendly...
SEC’s Hatchet-Man Mutes NLPC But Lets Woke NY Officials Spam the System
The “revolving door” between the high-priced hallways of Big Law and the Securities and Exchange Commission is a well-worn path, but under the current regime of Chairman Paul Atkins and his (likely) handpicked Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, James...
Complaint Filed Against Rep. Ihan Omar for ‘Implausible’ Financial Disclosures
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC), formerly known as the Office of Congressional Ethics, against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) regarding her financial disclosures that show a sudden and inexplicable...
Microsoft Directors Unfazed Their ‘Fatty at LinkedIn’ Shared Cryptic Jerky, Ice Cream Messages w/ Epstein
Corporate governance is supposed to be about accountability, transparency, and the protection of shareholder interests. But at Microsoft, these principles appear to have been suspended for one man: Reid Hoffman. For the last three years, NLPC has demanded that...
NLPC Seeks Ballot Flexibility in Voting for Board Nominees at Disney
Thanks to a blockade thrown up by James Moloney, the former big corporation lawyer (for Gibson Dunn) who is now the director of the Division of Corporation Finance ("CorpFin") at the Securities and Exchange Commission, "small" shareholders (those with less than $5...
Top Goldman Lawyer Exits After Epstein Disclosures, Despite CEO’s Backing
Goldman Sachs says its general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler (pictured above) will step down this summer, a major reversal after months of public support from CEO David Solomon and the bank’s leadership amid renewed scrutiny of her ties to Jeffrey Epstein. According to...
PROTECT YOUR KIDS: Meta Accused of Addictive Platform Design in Lawsuits
A landmark California trial is putting Meta’s business model under oath—specifically, whether its Facebook and Instagram platforms are engineered to keep users compulsively engaged, even when harm is foreseeable, especially for kids. According to Fox Business: An...
NLPC Backs Proposal to End Foolhardy Emissions Reduction Scheme by Deere
NLPC reached an agreement last month with Deere & Company to withdraw its shareholder proposal that asked for diversity, equity and inclusion considerations to be eliminated from its board member selection process, which the company did. However, we are still...
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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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Exxon’s Darren Woods Has a Paris Problem
NLPC has filed a shareholder proposal ahead of ExxonMobil's 2026 annual meeting with a simple request: make the Chairman and CEO two different people. It is among the most basic reforms in corporate governance, already in place at a clear majority of S&P 500...
Walls Close in on Microsoft, Reid Hoffman; Mainstream Media Finally Asks Questions
Incorporating some of what NLPC has already reported related to Reid Hoffman's friendship and correspondence with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg has pieced together a more extensive timeline of the relationship from the Justice Department's recent...
Netflix Lost WBD Deal Due to 99% Donations to Dems, Susan Rice, and Tampons for Men
Should we call him "Tampon Ted?" According to a report this week by New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino, Netflix's months-long, $83 billion bid to acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery collapsed in part because of what Republican...
Reuters Chats w/ NLPC’s Corporate Project Director About DEI, the SEC & Shareholder Activism
Today Reuters posted a 26-minute podcast interview between Sustainable Business Correspondent Ross Kerber and the director of NLPC's Corporate Integrity Project, Paul Chesser (pictured above), in which they discussed the shareholder activism landscape; NLPC's...
Pro-DEI Bloomberg Columnist Distorts NLPC’s Shareholder Activism
On Monday Bloomberg published a commentary by liberal columnist Beth Kowitt (pictured above) that misunderstood and misrepresented NLPC's shareholder initiatives, especially as they pertain to rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion policies at major U.S....
Texas Two-Step: Reid Hoffman and the Rot at Microsoft
The 2026 Texas Senate primary between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico has provided the American public with a rare gift: a look inside the "dark money" vault of Reid Hoffman. Rep. Crockett’s campaign recently issued a blistering news release calling out Talarico...
Goldman Sachs Cuts DEI, So Chief Diversity Officer Heads for the Door
As reported recently by the Wall Street Journal and other news organizations, NLPC agreed with Goldman Sachs to withdraw a shareholder proposal it had submitted for this year's annual meeting, which requested the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion criteria...
Did Susan Rice’s Political Tirade Help Kill the Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal?
Netflix's ambitious bid to acquire the studio and streaming assets of Warner Bros. Discovery — the deal that would have reshaped Hollywood — officially died on Thursday, when the WBD board declared Paramount Skydance's sweetened $111 billion bid "superior" and Netflix...
NLPC Reaches Agreement w/ Goldman Sachs to Remove DEI from Board Criteria
As we did with American Express and Deere & Company, in recent months NLPC negotiated an agreement with Goldman Sachs for the bank to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion considerations when its directors decide who they might consider adding to the board. In...
The Gates-Hoffman Connection: Is Microsoft Compromised by Epstein?
Is Reid Hoffman on Microsoft's Board of Directors because the company as a whole is compromised by associations with Jeffrey Epstein? This is the question that must be asked following the revelations published yesterday by the New York Times in an article titled “The...
NLPC GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY PROJECT
Unconstitutional Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Surveillance Scandal Widens
After the revelations that Special Counsel Jack Smith authorized the FBI to surveil the private phone communications of nearly a dozen Republican senators, it now comes out that Smith’s operation was aimed at virtually the entire conservative and Republican...
Soros Money Fuels California Prop 50 Gerrymandering Campaign
On November 4, California voters will decide whether to approve a proposal, Proposition 50, that would amend the state constitution to authorize a temporary redrawing of congressional districts to boost Democratic Party representation. While redistricting is...
John Brennan Must Be Indicted
Today, with the House Judiciary Committee’s referral of former CIA Director John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, we’re one step closer to accountability for the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most egregious abuses of power in modern...
Disbarment Sought of Virginia AG Candidate Jay Jones
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed a complaint with the Virginia State Bar asking that it subject Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones “to a revocation of his bar license or at the least a suspension.” In text messages sent in 2022, Jones...
Chinese Communist Figure is Big Donor to NJ Governor Candidate Mikie Sherrill
From a story by Thomas Catenacci in the Washington Free Beacon: A Chinese auto executive and an active member of the Chinese Communist Party donated over $65,000 to New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill's campaign, according to state...
Unconstitutional Special Counsel Jack Smith Spied on GOP Senators
Newly released documents reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith authorized the FBI to surveil the private phone communications of nearly a dozen Republican senators during his hyper-partisan January 6 investigation. This is a blatant abuse of power that...
Virginia AG Candidate Wanted to Put ‘Two Bullets to the Head’ of Republican
Virginia's 2025 general election is on November 4, including the high-stakes gubernatorial race between Abigail Spanberger (D) and Winsome Earle-Sears (R) But the focus now is on Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General. Jones, a former state delegate...
In Amicus, NLPC Counsel Condemns ‘Barfare’ Case Against Jeff Clark
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar joined eight other attorneys in an Amicus Curiae, also known as a “friend of the court” brief, arguing against the disbarment of former Justice Department official Jeff Clark (in photo) by the D.C. Bar. Click here to download the brief. On...
VIDEO: Kamenar Says Case Against James Comey is Strong
Former FBI Director James Comey faces federal indictment in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation into Russiagate leaks. Legal analyst Paul Kamenar of the National Legal and Policy Center tells One America...
Smithsonian Should Be Evenhanded, Not Woke
Inside Sources has distributed my op-ed titled” Smithsonian Should Not Propagate Ideology” as a counterpoint to an op-ed titled “Yes, President Trump is Censoring History,” by law professors Joseph Toman and Sidney Shapiro. The op-eds are appearing in daily newspapers...
#WeToldYouSo
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.
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...
#WeToldYouSo: David Solomon Draws Trump’s Criticism For Poor Management
Two worlds collided this week: President Trump's tariff revival and Goldman Sachs’s brand of virtue-signaling finance. CEO and Chair David Solomon’s DJ hobby got caught in the crossfire—and the clash underscores exactly why NLPC questioned Solomon’s judgment as CEO...
