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The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Tim Phillips has resigned as the president of Americans for Prosperity after the Koch-backed conservative organization made clear he was no longer welcome following an internal investigation into unspecified personal impropriety. Americans for Prosperity is the well-funded grassroots and voter turnout arm of the Koch network of political and policy groups, and Phillips was …

The New York Post reports: It’s good to be David and Julia Koch. New York’s richest couple just bought an Upper East Side mansion on a whim — for $40 million in cash, sources told The Post. They came upon the 15,000-square-foot home when they visited a ritzy decorator show house earlier this summer. The Kochs liked the stately mansion …

Via the New York Times: Behind closed doors at David Koch’s Upper East Side apartment Friday night, Gov. Chris Christie told conservative donors that he has shed 85 pounds since undergoing weight loss surgery last year. The governor’s appearance – inside Mr. Koch’s sprawling 18-room duplex – was strictly off limits to the press, but a guest told us that …

“Americans For Prosperity” is an astroturf group invented by the multi-billionaire Koch Brothers.

Last night Rachel Maddow tore into the president of the anti-Obama astroturf group Americans For Prosperity, who refused to say where his funding really comes from.

Last night Rachel tore in to the lying wingnuts group, Americans For Prosperity. Their own words hang them.

Americans For Prosperity is an astroturf organization, one that poses as being comprised of “grassroots” individuals, but is actually largely funded by corporations opposed to reforms that would hurt their profitability.