Libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch were among the first to grasp the political potential of social welfare groups and trade associations 2014 nonprofits that can spend money to influence elections but don’t have to name their donors.
The Kochs and their allies have built up a complex network of such organizations, which spent more than $383 million in the run-up to the 2012 election alone.
Documents released in recent months show the Kochs have added wrinkles to their network that even experts well versed in tax law and campaign finance say they’ve never seen before 2014 wrinkles that could make it harder to discern who controls each nonprofit in the web and how it disperses its money.
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