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Newsom Delivers for Energy Clients of Lobbyist he Celebrated at French Laundry

By Derek Seidman and Donald Shaw, Sludge
January 12, 2021

The Newsom administration’s decisions have repeatedly benefited the energy clients of the firm of his close lobbyist friend Jason Kinney.

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Buffalo News’s anti-tax screed fails to disclose ties to group lobbying against taxing the rich

By Rob Galbraith
March 29, 2021

The Buffalo News is a “major investor” in – and publisher Tom Wiley sits on the board of – a group lobbying against taxing the rich.

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$7 mil millones en efectivo para los fondos buitre en el nuevo plan de ajuste de la Junta de Control Fiscal

By Abner Dennis
March 17, 2021

El nuevo plan de ajuste de la Junta de Control Fiscal de Puerto Rico incluye $7 mil millones en pagos en efectivo, mientras que los pensionados se enfrentan a recortes

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$7 Billion in Cash for Vulture Funds in Oversight Board’s New Debt Adjustment Plan

By Abner Dennis
March 17, 2021

The Oversight Board’s new plan of adjustment for Puerto Rico includes $7 billion in cash payments for Wall Street vulture funds while pensioners face major cuts.

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Google Invests Billions in India as Modi and Allies Stage Corporate Takeover of Agriculture

By Munira Lokhandwala
March 4, 2021

In profiting from its India investments while not condemning the Modi government’s human rights abuses, Google & US Big Tech are validating the repression of protesters.

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Creditors stalk Puerto Rico government’s real estate properties, including the Land Authority’s farms

By Abner Dennis
February 16, 2021

Wall Street firms are turning to new and aggressive tactics to extract maximum profits from Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy process.

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Acreedores al acecho de las propiedades inmuebles del gobierno, incluyendo las fincas de la Autoridad de Tierras

By Abner Dennis
February 16, 2021

Las firmas de Wall Street están recurriendo a tácticas nuevas y agresivas en sus intentos de extraer ganancias en el proceso de quiebra de Puerto Rico

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Energy Giant NRG Splurges on Powerful NY Lobbyists in Pursuit of Astoria Fracked-Gas Plant

By Derek Seidman
December 17, 2020

NRG has paid an army of powerful lobbyists hundreds of thousands of dollars to push a proposed fracked-gas plant against community opposition.

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Biden draws foreign policy team from military- and tech-tied consulting and private equity firms

By Rob Galbraith
December 7, 2020

Several of President-elect Biden’s foreign policy cabinet members, advisors, and White House staff come from arms industry-tied WestExec Advisors and Pine Island Capital

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Biden’s “Nightmare” Climate Advisor is Connected to Energy Transition Team Members

By Rob Galbraith and Derek Seidman
November 18, 2020

A quarter of Biden’s energy transition team – including team head Arun Majumdar – have close ties to Ernest Moniz and the energy industry.

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The Power Behind the Politicians

By Gin Armstrong and Rob Galbraith
November 4, 2020

How can we find out who is bankrolling the politicians and organizations standing in the way of a full and fair vote count?

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Rep. Chris Jacobs seeks to preempt key New York labor law, which could benefit his personal real estate business

By Rob Galbraith
November 2, 2020

Jacobs is seeking to preempt the Scaffold Law, a workplace safety law that the real estate industry has been trying to kill for decades.

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Kirkland & Ellis: The Law Firm Behind the Trump-Barr Power Grab at the DOJ

By Kevin Connor
October 30, 2020

Attorney General Bill Barr’s alarming expansion of political control at the DOJ in advance of the election is also a story of corporate capture: a single law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, has a revolving door monopoly on the highest ranks of the Department of Justice that deserves far more scrutiny.

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