Selection of Blackstone senior advisory director Bill Mulrow raises concerns about Wall Street profiteering from coronavirus recovery
Rob Galbraith
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Insurance-backed lobbying group attacking universal healthcare in NY is also funded by public hospital and cancer research center
Roswell Park Cancer Center and Erie County Medical Center belong to lobbying group working to protect health insurance profits
Museum and college donations help clean up Paul Saffrin’s image, but not the generations of pollution his company caused
Local institutions rehabilitate Tonawanda Coke owner’s image as the state considers public subsidies for developer who bought polluted site
Washington Post runs pro-war Stephen Hadley column without disclosing Raytheon board seat yet again
In 2013 the Washington Post published a pro-war column by Hadley without reporting his Raytheon board seat. Seven years later nothing has changed.
NY budget watchdog’s climate recommendations reflect priorities of corporations and lobbyists on its board
The Citizens Budget Commission advocated embracing natural gas and expanding nuclear subsidies among other pro-corporate recommendations
Lawyers Defending ExxonMobil Are Big Biden Donors
ExxonMobil’s lawyers, who scored a victory for the fossil fuel company today on a climate lawsuit, are big donors to Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg & other corporate Democrats.
Wealthy developers cash in as cost of Buffalo tax break rises to $66.9 million
Tax break for mixed-use development has been abused to force property owners and renters to pay taxes for luxury lofts
“Green” businessman is Buffalo area’s top Trump 2020 donor
Jon Williams is hailed as a green energy hero, but he is not the environmental champion his public image portrays
GM workers strike for fair pay as executives and investors extract billions from the company
Nearly 50,000 GM workers are striking for better pay and job security as executives and financiers benefit from record profits.
Wall Street, former CEO seek to get paid while Blackjewel miners wait for back wages
Private equity backing and self-dealing featured at the bankrupt coal firm whose workers are still waiting for pay.
As Trump border cruelty deepens, Buffalo elites maintain lucrative ties to CBP and ICE
Buffalo real estate developers – including Carl Montante and Howard Zemsky – are bringing in millions of dollars per year through leases to ICE and CBP.
Williams pipeline support highlights Environmental Defense Fund’s long, cozy relationship with fracking pseudoscience
Corporate-friendly environmental group has a long history of elevating fracking industry talking points disguised as empirical research