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Agencies and organizations that we check frequently include:
- Federal Election Commission
- Guidestar
- Internal Revenue Service
- New York City government
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Senate Office of Public Records
- U.S. Congress
- White House
Publications and web sites consulted by Muckety include:
- All Things Digital
- Bloomberg
- Business Wire
- Chicago Tribune
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Dealbook
- Environmental Working Group
- Footnoted.org
- Forbes
- Fortune
- Los Angeles Times
- New York magazine
- New York Observer
- New York Post
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- Newscom
- Newsday
- Park Avenue Peerage
- People
- Politico
- Portfolio
- PR Newswire
- Private Equity Hub
- Reuters
- Romenesko
- Silicon Alley Insider
- Slate
- TechCrunch
- Variety
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Wealth Report
- Wilshire & Washington
Other published sources:
- 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building, by Michael Gross
- The Almanac of the Unelected, ed. Suzanne Struglinski
- America, Inc: Who Owns and Operates the United States, by Morton Mintz & Jerry S. Cohen
- American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips
- The Architect: Karl Rove and the Dream of Absolute Power, by James Moore and Wayne Slater
- The Bankders: The Next Generation, by Martin Mayer
- Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, by Paul Carroll
- Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, by Jeremy Scahill
- Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley, by Patricia Beard
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein
- The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty, by Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer
- Charmed Lives: A Family Romance, by Michael Korda
- Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin, by James O’Shea and Charles Madigan
- The Death of the Banker, by Ron Chernow
- Den of Thieves, by James B. Stewart
- Ford: The Men and the Machine, by Robert Lacey
- The Fords: An American Epic, by Hugo Vickers
- Gladys: Duchess of Marlborough, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- Great Fortune : The Epic of Rockefeller Center, by Daniel Okrent
- Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington, by Peter H. Stone
- House of Hilton: From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege, by Jerry Oppenheimer
- The House of Getty, by Russell Miller
- The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
- The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets, by Nellie Bly
- The Kennedys, by Peter Collier And David Horowitz
- The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, by Frances Kiernan
- The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., by William D. Cohan
- Linked, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime, U.S. Treasury
- Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom, by Bob Woodward
- Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine
- Memoirs, by David Rockefeller
- Money and Class in America, by Lewis H. Lapham
- The Money Culture, by Michael Lewis
- The Money Lords, by Matthew Josephson
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin
- Obama: From Promise to Power, by David Mendell
- Our Crowd, by Stephen Birmingham
- Party of the Century, by Deborah Davis
- The Predators’ Ball, by Connie Bruck
- Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin, by Pamela Walker Laird
- The Partners: Inside America’s Most Powerful Law Firms, by James B. Stewart
- Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim, by Jacqueline Bograd Weld
- The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath, by Kevin P. Phillips
- Pulitzer, by W.A. Swanberg
- The Rich Are Different, ed. Jon Winokur
- The Robber Barons, by Matthew Josephson
- The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait, by Frederick Morton
- The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, by John Steele Gordon
- Secret Societies of America’s Elite, by Steven Sora
- Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider
- Secrets of the Tomb, by Alexandra Robbins
- Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts
- Social Register
- Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, by Michael T. Kaufman
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr., by Ron Chernow
- Trammell Crow: Master Builder, by Robert Sobel
- Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, by Wayne Barrett
- Under God: Religion and American Politics, by Garry Wills
- Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty, by Peter Hernon & Terry Ganey
- The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age, by Louis Auchincloss
- The Very Rich: A History of Wealth, by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr.
