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NEW YORK CBS -- Sixteen billionaires on the Forbes 400, the business magazine s list of the richest Americans have given to super PACs, according to a CBS NEWS review of the 2011 fundraising reports disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.Twelve of the nation s super rich gave to the pro-Mitt Romney group Restore Our Future stanley cup . One gave to the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future. One gave to the pro-Ron Paul Super PAC Endorse Liberty. And two gave to Democratic-leaning groups supporting either President Obama Priorities USA or Senate Democrats Majority PAC .The pro-Romney super PAC donor list includes two pairs of billionaire siblings - hotel moguls Bill and Richard Marriott and Wal-Mart heirs Jim and Alice Walton. Please see the full list below . Of the $30 million the Restore Our Future raised in 2011, $10 million, or one third of its total, came from donors who gave a million dollars each. One of those seven-figure donors is William Koch and his Florida energy company, Oxbow Carbon. Koch kubki stanley is a brother of Charles and David Koch both billionaires , who are better known and more prolific donors to conservative, independent groups.Video: Who s funding the Super PACs Super PACs to reveal funding, spending Another million dollar donor to the pro-Romney stanley mug super PAC is Frank VanderSloot s Idaho Falls company, Melaleuca, which makes nutritional and pharmaceutical products. Because we want Mitt Romney to be the Pres |