FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Contact: Nick Jacobs, 202-618-6430 or njacobs@bettermarkets.com

Washington, D.C. – Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of Better Markets, issued this statement following the Senate Banking Committee hearing titled, “Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission”:

“The American political system is being polluted by a tidal wave of dark money from millionaires and billionaires directing corporations to secretly spend that money to elect candidates beholden to them.  As Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Democrats, said today, dark political money is undermining our democracy and it threatens to ruin our country.  The SEC has the power to shine a light on this corrosive, corrupting practice and require disclosure of all political spending by public companies.  Investors, the American people and our democracy deserve no less.”

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