Tag: lobbying

23 JAN

Tech companies spent more than $64 million on lobbying in 2018

The biggest companies in tech spent more money lobbying the government in 2018 than in any year previous. According to a report from Reuters, Google dropped $ 21.2 million on lobbying efforts in 2018, a new record for the company and the most it has spent on lobbying since 2012. Likewise, Facebook cranked up its […]

23 JAN

Tech companies spent more than $64 million on lobbying in 2018

The biggest companies in tech spent more money lobbying the government in 2018 than in any year previous. According to a report from Reuters, Google dropped $ 21.2 million on lobbying efforts in 2018, a new record for the company and the most it has spent on lobbying since 2012. Likewise, Facebook cranked up its […]

03 MAY

Kim Kardashian says she’s lobbying Jared Kushner to get a presidential pardon for a woman serving life in prison over drugs

Getty/Business Insider Kim Kardashian West and Jared Kushner have been discussing the possibility of getting Donald Trump to pardon a woman serving life in prison. Alice Marie Johnson — a first-time, non-violent drug offender who is now 62 — has been in federal prison since 1996. Kardashian West and Kushner have reportedly been talking for […]

13 MAR

‘Everyone’s really concentrating their power’: Wall Street banks are shaking up their lobbying shops

REUTERS/Jason Reed The Clearing House (TCH) and the Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), which both count the likes of Citigroup, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase among their members, will combine. Big banks, long-reviled in Washington, have been beefing up and refocusing their external and internal lobbying operations in a bid to capitalize upon President […]

05 MAR

Blue-chip companies weasel out of charity lobbying disclosures

More than 20 major companies have failed to disclose money they paid to nonprofit groups linked to government officials, according to a new report. The disclosures are required by law, but loopholes can be used to avoid them. The findings, which come from a new analysis conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit […]

15 FEB

Audit reveals Office of Fossil Energy approved millions for lobbying, spas

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The internal watchdog at the Department of Energy released an audit report (PDF) this month detailing profligate spending, approved by the Office of Fossil Energy, on a clean coal initiative that was supposed to result in a 400MW carbon capture-enabled plant. The Office of Fossil Energy had partnered with a private company called […]

29 DEC

Opioid crisis: ‘Drug companies lobbying contributed to demand among doctors’

Culture is contributing to the opioid crisis in the US; drug companies ease supply, and lobbying raised the demand from doctors, while they and patients were misled about the risks, law professor Richard Ausness told RT. Life expectancy in America has declined for the second year in a row, and figures show that powerful painkillers […]

12 NOV

A top Democratic lobbying firm caught up in Mueller’s Russia probe is on the verge of shutting down

Podesta Group, the lobbying firm founded by brothers John and Anthony Podesta that has close ties to the Democratic Party, may be shutting down. The firm has become entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation over work it did for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort was indicted last month on 12 […]