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Rob Galbraith
Posts by Rob Galbraith
The Iraq War ‘spinmeister’ and high-powered lobbyists behind Pegula’s stadium shakedown
A war propagandist from the Bush administration and well-connected Albany lobbyists are working to extract $1.4 billion in subsidies from New Yorkers.
How elite, oil-backed think tanks worked to lift the ban on US crude oil exports
Brookings Institution, CSIS, and seven other influential think tanks funded by the oil industry pushed to expand US oil exports, typifying a relationship admitted to by ExxonMobil lobbyists years later.
Gig work front group run by lobbying firm Mercury falsely claimed support from Buffalo community organizations
Uber and Lyft-backed group falsely claimed that several community groups in Buffalo endorse its effort to deny workplace protections to app workers in New York.
Buffalo News’s anti-tax screed fails to disclose ties to group lobbying against taxing the rich
The Buffalo News is a “major investor” in – and publisher Tom Wiley sits on the board of – a group lobbying against taxing the rich.
Biden draws foreign policy team from military- and tech-tied consulting and private equity firms
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
Biden’s “Nightmare” Climate Advisor is Connected to Energy Transition Team Members
A quarter of Biden’s energy transition team – including team head Arun Majumdar – have close ties to Ernest Moniz and the energy industry.
The Power Behind the Politicians
How can we find out who is bankrolling the politicians and organizations standing in the way of a full and fair vote count?
Rep. Chris Jacobs seeks to preempt key New York labor law, which could benefit his personal real estate business
Jacobs is seeking to preempt the Scaffold Law, a workplace safety law that the real estate industry has been trying to kill for decades.
Cuomo fundraises with Finger Lakes billionaires as austerity cuts drive upstate NY cities towards crisis
NY governor is raising money from billionaires on promises not to raise their taxes and instead slash state funding for poor cities
New Pegula fracking venture draws investment and board role from former Pennsylvania Governor Corbett
Amidst an global economic crisis and multiple management controversies, Terry and Kim Pegula, launched a new fracking venture that has drawn investment from – and a board seat for – the pro-fracking former Governor of Pennsylvania.
Major Buffalo real estate developers received millions of dollars in forgivable PPP loans
Fifteen of the most prominent real estate developers in Buffalo received between $13.6 million and $34.0 million through the Paycheck Protection Program