The Dark Money Game
2025 · 1 season · 2 episodes · Ended · HBO
Documentary
TMDB 7.2 · 6 votes
Money changes everything.
Discover the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizen’s United case, which enabled unlimited spending by hidden sources on many political campaigns.
Episodes
- S01E01Ohio Confidential2025-04-15115m
When a powerful political lobbyist is found shot to death, his apparent suicide highlights a bizarre turn in Ohio's largest public corruption case accidentally uncovered by federal investigators that was nearly concealed by loose super PAC campaign financing rules.
- S01E02Wealth of the Wicked2025-04-16115m
Trace the tangled history of campaign finance back to the creation of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in 1975, the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, and the Citizens United decision of 2010 that has molded the shape and opacity of present-day super PACs which now flood the system with money.
Cast
- Jane MayerSelf - Journalist, Author of 'Dark Money'
- James BoppSelf - Attorney, National Right to Life Committee
- Maureen O'ConnorSelf - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (2010-22)
- Laura A. BischoffSelf - Statehouse Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch
- Jeffrey WilliamsSelf - Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent
- Tyler FehrmanSelf - Republican Campaign Manager (2018)
- Emily GlatfelterSelf - Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Ohio
- David M. DeVillersSelf - U.S Attorney, Southern District of Ohio (2019-21)
Russ FeingoldSelf (archive footage)- Robert SchenckSelf - Evangelical Minister
- David M. McIntoshSelf - Co-Founder, The Federalist Society
- Jonathan RiehlSelf