Today, Campaign for Accountability urged Congress to open an inquiry into serious and escalating ethics violations involving Karen Budd-Falen, the third highest-ranking official at the Department of the Interior (DOI), and into the apparent failure of DOI’s ethics office to prevent or address those violations.
A new TTP report shows the close ties between former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the Chinese AI industry—an industry that Schmidt has characterized as a strategic threat to the U.S.
Campaign for Accountability’s comment explains why the Chamber’s Petition looks to be a bald-faced attempt at protecting Big Tech profits by making it easier to disqualify Chair Lina Khan from participating in future cases.
Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA) submitted a comment to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) asking it to reject betting company KalshiEX, LLC’s proposal to allow events contracts based on the result of US elections.
A new TTP report outlines how former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his proxies played a major role in shaping legislation to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry—legislation that could directly benefit Schmidt’s network of investments.
Today, the Tech Transparency Project released a report detailing how Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) could profit from his own plan to reform Section 230 -- one that would keep protections intact for "new entrants" like Rumble, in which he's invested.
Yesterday, Campaign for Accountability (CfA) asked the SEC to investigate stablecoin issuer Circle’s proposed SPAC, highlighting numerous undisclosed red flags with the potential $9 billion merger.
News reports indicate that Ms. Ruhland simultaneously represented and engaged in legal work on behalf of two parties with directly adverse interests, the presidential campaigns of Kanye West and Donald J. Trump. Such representation appears to violate Ms. Ruhland’s ethical obligations under Wisconsin Bar Rules to avoid representing parties where there is a conflict of interests between the parties.
On April 2, 2019, CfA announced that the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of the Interior confirmed it is reviewing CfA’s request for investigation into Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and his relationship with his former lobbying client, Westlands Water District, an agricultural conglomerate in California.
"The update came in the wake of a request by the [...] Campaign for Accountability for congressional officials to investigate whether Faegre and Wheeler violated the lobbying law requirements by failing to disclose that Interior meeting."