Matthew Tyrmand, Director of Public Relations
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Farm Subsidies flow to-- 2,800 Recipients in Washington, D.C. & Beltway;
930 Recipients in Chicago, IL; and 247 Recipients in New York City, NY.
Across America, 10,806 entities received at least $250,000; and 419 entities received at least $1 million in subsidy- totaling $725.162 million (2008-2012).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, december 9, 2013

New York City- Nearly 4,000 entities that live in just three major American cities received $27.5 million in farm subsidies- where there are no farms. OpenTheBooks.com studied federal farm subsidies recipients in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, IL; and New York City, NY.

The recipients include the wealthiest families in the country (Rockefeller); a charity-arm of The Nation of Islam, receiving checks at the home address of Minister Louis Farrakhan;  the New York based National Audubon Society received $960,000 - including a New York based tobacco subsidy; Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) receiving his Iowa farm subsidy check at his Arlington, VA condo; executives leading the U.S. Department of Agriculture and farm subsidy lobbyists are both receiving tens of thousands in subsidies.

Please download a pdf of our The Federal Transfer Report™- Farm Subsidies & The Big Dogs

About Open The Books: At www.openthebooks.com, our mission is to post "every dime, online" of all government spending- Federal, State and Local. Today, Open The Books is the leading national transparency portal with over 300 million lines of government spending posted online. The Open The Books app- track government spending on your phone- won the 2013 "Best Political App" chosen by The Web Marketing Association. 

About the author:  Adam Andrzejewski is the founder of OpenTheBooks.com. An entrepreneur and former candidate for Governor of Illinois, Mr. Andrzejewski is the author of this study: The Federal Transfer Report- Farm Subsidies & The Big Dogs.