EIN: 52-1226614

National Center for Public Policy Research, Inc.

Washington, DC 20002

Runs Project 21.

John Byrne
RawStory.com
April 11, 2006

Former DeLay aide paid thinktank to advance Washington lobbying efforts

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Former_DeLay_aide_paid_thinktank_that_0412.html

Policy nonprofit (NCPPR) where Abramoff was director funded DeLay's overseas junkets

The former deputy chief of staff to onetime House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) advised the manufacturer of Stoli Vodka to make a $20,000 contribution to the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative thinktank, which wrote an editorial supporting Stoli shortly thereafter, RAW STORY has found.

DeLay deputy Tony Rudy got an $8,000 kickback on the deal, according to his plea agreement. In apparent exchange for the tax-deductible donation, the nonprofit's president wrote an article aiding the company's lobbying effort.

Timothy Noah
Slate.com
March 27, 2006

Think Tanks for Sale

http://www.slate.com/id/2138082/entry/2137077/

Amy Ridenour, Abramoff Fellow.

...not all the money Abramoff directed from his clients to NCPPR—which ran to the millions—was transferred to third parties. Some of it remained at NCPPR. We don't know how much, but apparently it was enough to make Abramoff address Ridenour less like a grantee and more like an employee. Ridenour, for her part, was eager to please her magnifico.

How eager? Eager enough, apparently, that Ridenour was willing to grind out an op-ed piece, a letter to the editor, and a press release extolling the virtues of Abramoff's clients. What follows are some e-mail exchanges, published for the first time, in which Ridenour, Abramoff, and an Abramoff associate discuss some, ahem, scholarly work that Abramoff underwrote at NCPPR.

John Byrne and Ron Brynaert
Raw Story
March 8, 2006

Series of editorials supporting Abramoff clients suggests collusions between lobbyist and nonprofit

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Nonprofit_think_tank_wrote_articles_favorable_0309.html

... in addition to editorials favoring the Marianas and the Malaysian prime minister, RAW STORY has uncovered four other Abramoff clients that the conservative thinktank [National Center for Public Policy Research] supported in articles and newsletters: Magazine Publishers of America, Channel One, Pitney Bowes and Stoli Vodka.

...The obscure nature of the clients and the unlikelihood that [NCCPR President Amy] Ridenour would write editorials supporting six of Abramoff’s clients while claiming to know nothing of the nature of his lobbying work raises questions of how much Ridenour actually knew and whether the group received donations in exchange for supporting Abramoff.

Larisa Alexandrova and John Byrne
Raw Story
March 2, 2006

Social Security "fright mail" targeting seniors helped fund GOP leader's trips to UK, Asia

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Social_Security_%E2%80%9Cfright_mail%E2%80%9D_targeting_seniors_0125.html

A think tank which raised money by targeting elderly Americans with Social Security scare letters paid for more than $130,000 in travel expenses for the House Republican leader, his wife and his staff, RAW STORY has learned.

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a highly controversial and little-known conservative think tank which has been sending Social Security "fright mail" for years, paid for two posh trips for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) in 1996 and 2000, each at the cost of at least $64,000.

John Byrne
Raw Story
February 20, 2006

President of Abramoff linked nonprofit wrote editorial smearing rival of Abramoff client

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/President_of_Abramoff_linked_nonprofit_wrote_0221.html

Group's president attacked political rival of Prime Minister who paid $1.2m for Bush visit; Denies being paid for editorial

The President of the conservative Washington nonprofit [National Center for Public Policy Research] where fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff served as a director penned an editorial that smeared a political opponent of the Malaysian Prime Minister – an Abramoff client – helping the Prime Minister in a campaign to paint a political rival as an Islamic radical...

Chuck Neubauer and Richard B. Schmitt
LA Times
February 10, 2006

Abramoff's Charity Began at Home

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-charities11feb11,0,5568579.story?page=1&coll=la-home-nation

The lobbyist admits he used nonprofits to evade taxes, pad his pockets and bribe officials

Non-profits abused by Abramoff include the National Center for Public Policy Research ("Tom Delay's Right Arm"), and Toward Tradition.

Bill Berkowitz
MediaTransparency.org
May 1, 2005

Tom DeLay's Right Arm

story.php?storyID=61

Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, and the National Center for Public Policy Research

The foundation that Tom DeLay calls 'The Center for Conservative communications' is involved in the Majority Leader's ethical troubles as well as a number of other right wing projects

MediaMatters.org
March 17, 2005

Media failed to identify conservative think tank that laundered DeLay travel money

http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200503180004

News reports on recent revelations that gambling interests funded a lavish, expense-paid trip to Britain by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and his wife by funneling the money through a tax-exempt organization, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), have consistently failed to note that NCPPR is a conservative think tank.