Super-Secret Money Moves Through Nonprofit Daisy Chain

Sean Noble, a former congressional aide, had an account ready when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that corporations could join wealthy donors and spend freely in federal elections. In less than a year, he had $62 million at his disposal.

He then unleashed it into that year’s midterm elections, and, to this day, no one knows where Noble’s obscure Phoenix-based nonprofit group called the Center to Protect Patient Rights got its money.