17 Times Jane Mayer Cites Unnamed Sources In “Dark Money”
In her book “
Dark Money,”
Jane Mayer frequently cites anonymous, unaccountable sources to make sensaonal claims about her subjects.
Mayer Used An Anonymous Former Koch “Insider” As A Source.
“One former insider in the Kochs' realm, who declined to be named because he feared retribuon, described the early donor summits as a clever means devised by Charles Koch to enlist others to pay for polical ghts that helped his company's boom line.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 7)
Mayer Quoted An Anonymous “Operave Who Sll Works For The Kochs.”
“‘Geng an invitaon means you've arrived,’ one operave who sll works for the Kochs explained. ‘People want to be in the room.’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 8)
Mayer Quoted An Anonymous “Republican Campaign Consultant Who Has Worked For The Kochs In The Past.”
“As one Republican campaign consultant who has worked for the Kochs in the past said of the family's polical acvies, ‘To call them under he radar is an understatement. They are underground!’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 8)
Mayer Quoted An Anonymous “Longme Family Employee.”
“‘The fact that the judge was bribed completely altered their view of jusce,’ one longme family employee suggests. ‘They believe jusce can be bought, and the rules are for chumps.’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 28)
Mayer: Charles Koch’s Nanny Was A “Fervent Nazi Sympathizer.”
“It is unclear what Fred Koch's views of Hitler were during the 1930s, beyond his preference for the country's work ethic in comparison with the nascent welfare state in America. But he was enamored enough of the German way of life and thinking that he employed a German governess for his rst two sons, Freddie and Charles. At the me, Freddie was a small boy, and Charles sll in diapers. The nanny's iron rule terried the lile boys, according to a family acquaintance. In addion to being overbearing, she was a fervent Nazi sympathizer, who frequently touted Hitler's virtues.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 32)
Mayer Cited An Anonymous Family Acquaintance To Assert That Charles Koch Was Forced To Produce A Morning Bowel Movement Or Be Subjected To Enemas And Castor Oil.
“The acquaintance recalled that the nurse had a commensurately harsh and dictatorial approach to child rearing. She enforced a rigid toilet-training regimen requiring the boys to produce morning bowel movements precisely on schedule or be force-fed castor oil and subjected to enemas.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 32)
Mayer Cited An Anonymous “Confdant” To Claim That Charles Koch Maneuvered For His Brothers To Miss Their Mother’s Funeral.
“A condant claimed later that Charles, who lived in Wichita, where their mother had died, hadn't given him early enough noce about the funeral arrangements for him to be able to aend. There had been an ice storm in Chicago, which
complicated his travel arrangements. In the end, Frederick was only able to arrive in Kansas in me to aend a recepon aer the service. ‘He was heartbroken,’ the condant said. Bill, too, nearly missed the funeral. He was given such short noce he had to charter a private plane to make it in me and then was seated not with the immediate family but with cousins. In addion, both he and Frederick believed they were excluded from a private memorial at their father's ranch, arranged and aended by Charles and David.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 50-51)
Mayer Quoted An Anonymous “Longme Family Insider,” Who Called David Koch “Socially Awkward.”
“To one longme family insider, however, he oen seemed ‘a bit lost’ and ‘socially awkward. People don't really register with him that much,’ she said.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 52)
Mayer Cited An Anonymous “Republican Polical Operave Who Signed A Confdenality Agreement” About Opposion Research On Bill Koch.
“A Republican polical operave who signed a condenality agreement, and so asked not to have his name disclosed, admits that Charles and David Koch hired him, through a law rm, to trek across the country for months, scouring for anything he could nd in the way of damaging personal, business, or legal informaon on their brother Bill. He recalled, ‘It was to nd anything that would cause trouble, that could be used like a sharp sck to poke in his eye.’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 135)
Mayer Cited Anonymous Sources Who Esmate David Koch’s Wealth And Philanthropy, And Downplay His Generosity As A Funcon O His Desire For “Respectability.”
“One associate saidKoch had conded that he gave away approximately 40 percent of his income each year, which he esmated at about $1 billion. This of course le him with an annual income of some $600 million and considerably helped ease his tax burden, but he enjoyed the role, a family member said, in part because it bought him respectability.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 227)
Mayer Cited Unnamed Sources To Cast The Koch Brothers As “Obsessed” With Press Leaks And Sensive To Crical Media Coverage.
“Condants described the brothers as obsessed with leaks and stung by the crical press coverage. They seemed surprised and resenul that their growing polical inuence had resulted in heightened scruny. They were accustomed to thinking of themselves as private cizens, and public-spirited ones at that. A golf partner said David ‘spumed and spuered’ about
The New Yorker
and other publicaons that had scrunized the brothers, blaming the media for spurring death threats and forcing his family to hire personal bodyguards.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 279)
Mayer Cited An Anonymous Source To Accuse The Koch’s O Being Behind An Eort To Dig Dirt On Her And To “Create It” I They Couldn’t Find It.
“Beginning in the summer of 2010, as the Kochs were ramping up spending on the midterm elecons, half a dozen or so highly paid operaves labored secretly in borrowed oce space in the back of the lobbying rm run by the former congressman J. C. Was. Their aim, according to a well-informed source, was to counteract The New Yorker's story on the Koch brothers by undermining me. ‘Dirt, dirt, dirt’ is what the source later told me they were digging for in my life. ‘If they couldn't nd it, they'd
create it.’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 282)
•
Mayer Cited More Unnamed Sources To Link The Kochs To The Eort.
“However, clues leading back to the Kochs were everywhere. Sources described Goldfarb, Ellender, and other Koch Industries personnel as deeply involved in the project. Leading it, one sourcesaid, was Nancy Pfotenhauer, a longme member of the Kochs' inner circle who has served as a Koch Industries spokesperson, as the head of its Washington oce, and as the president of Americans for Prosperity.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 282)
•
Mayer Cited An Unnamed Reporter To Suggest The Kochs Were Behind The Alleged Dirt Digging.
“At a Christmas party that winter, I was equally nonchalant when a former reporter pulled me aside with an odd warning. ‘This may be nothing,’ she said, but a private invesgator she knew had menoned there were a couple of conservave billionaires who wanted help digging up dirt on a Washington reporter. The reporter hadwrien a story they disliked. ‘It occurred to me aerward that the reporter they wanted to invesgate might be you.’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 282)
Mayer Cited An Unnamed Source Claiming That The Operaves Responsible For The ResearchOperaon Against Her “Thought They Were Going To Be Knighted By The Kochs” For Their Eorts Which Included Searching For Dirt In Her Personal Lie.
“I was later told that by cooking up these charges, the boiler room operaves felt close to victory. ‘They thought they had you. They thought they were going to be knighted by the Kochs,’ said one source. Their search for dirt had started with my personal life, I was told, but when that turned up nothing truly incriminang, they moved on to plagiarism.”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 283)
Mayer Quoted An Anonymous Source Who “Feared Retribuon” To Accuse The Kochs O Running An “Illegal Enterprise.”
“As the invesgaon grew in California, the Koch world expertly distanced itself. ‘They've spun it really well,’ said one of Noble's friends, who spoke on condion that he not be idened because he, too, feared retribuon. ‘They've worked it hard. The truth? The guy who the billionaires hire to direct the money got caught breaking the law. Is he guilty? It's not Sean who is the problem-it's the enterprise-it's an illegal enterprise!’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 327-328)
Mayer Relied On An Unnamed “Longme Associate” To Reute Charles Koch’s 2014
Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed In Which He Wrote That He Became Involved In Polics Only Reluctantly And Recently.
“As the Kochs' donor network poured a record amount of money into the 2014 midterm elecons, Charles connued to portray him-self, and probably to think of himself, as a disinterested patriot. In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal that spring, he described him-self as involved in polics only reluctantly and recently…. A longme associate who declined to be named, exclaimed, ‘He has been trying since the 1970s to get his Libertarian Revoluon going!’”
(Jane Mayer,
Dark Money
, 2016, p. 367-368)
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