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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Sen. Warren Lists Musk's '130 Potential Acts of Corruption' (Connecting the Dots: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Harvard, The Harvard Law School, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Secret Service, Obama & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Sen. Warren Lists Musk's '130 Potential Acts of Corruption' (Connecting the Dots: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Harvard, The Harvard Law School, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, The Secret Service, Obama & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Newsmax.com

By Theodore Bunker | Tuesday, 03 June 2025 04:59 PM EDT

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/elizabeth-warren-elon-musk-corruption/2025/06/03/id/1213482/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Tuesday released a report detailing 130 accusations against former White House adviser Elon Musk alleging that he may have used his government position to enrich himself and his companies.

The report lists "130 examples of unethical or potentially corrupt actions that benefit Musk or his companies — one for each day of Musk’s service as a Special Government Employee," according to a press release from Warren’s office.

In that time, Musk "maintained extensive financial conflicts of interest through his ownership or stake in several private and publicly traded companies: Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI, the Boring Company, and Neuralink," the report notes in the introduction, which adds that Musk’s net worth has risen by more than $100 billion since President Donald Trump was elected.

The report adds that "Musk and individuals acting on his behalf have been involved in dozens of questionable actions that raise questions about corruption, ethics, and conflicts of interest."

Warren groups the accusations into more than a dozen separate categories, including one that lists instances in which federal agencies in the Trump administration "dropped investigations into Musk companies, declined to enforce regulations against them, or foregone penalties that appear to have been warranted."

Another category says that under Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency "guided" the Trump administration and "hamstrung the agencies overseeing Musk’s companies, gutting their staff, throwing sand in the gears of their operations, and embedding DOGE staff loyal to Musk."

Connecting the Dots:

Senator Elizabeth Warren is a U.S. Senate senator and Ganesh Sitaraman was her senior counsel.

Ganesh Sitaraman was Elizabeth Warren’s senior counsel and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

John D. Podesta is the chair & counselor for the Center for American Progress and the chairman for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Center for American Progress Action Fund is a fund, affiliated advocacy group for the Center for American Progress.

Apple Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

AT&T Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Bank of America Corp. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

BMW of North America LLC was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Citigroup Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Coca-Cola Company was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Facebook was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

General Electric Company was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company) was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Motion Picture Association of America was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

PepsiCo, Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

PG&E Corporation was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Samsung Electronics Co. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Time Warner Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

T-Mobile USA, Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Toyota Motor North America was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Visa Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Wells Fargo & Co. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Carol M. Browner is a director, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration.

Tom Daschle is a director at the Center for American Progress and was the nominee for health and human services secretary for the Barack Obama administration.

Ezekiel Emanuel is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Lawrence H. Summers is a distinguished fellow at the Center for American Progress and was the National Economic Council chairman for the Barack Obama administration.

Cassandra Q. Butts was the SVP for the Center for American Progress and the deputy White House counsel for the Barack Obama administration.

Philip J. Crowley was the director of homeland security at the Center for American Progress and the assistant secretary of state for the Barack Obama administration.

Derek Douglas was an associate director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress and a special assistant for urban affairs for the Barack Obama administration.

Bradley J. Kiley was a VP for the Center for American Progress and the director of management and administration for the Barack Obama administration.

Karen Kornbluh was a visiting scholar at the Center for American Progress and a policy director for Barack Obama.

Jeanne Lambrew was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is the deputy assistant to the president for health policy for the Barack Obama administration.

Denis McDonough was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is the chief of staff; former deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Esther M. Olavarria was the director of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress and is the deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the Barack Obama administration.

Dan Restrepo was the Americas Project director at the Center for American Progress and a special assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration.

Gene B. Sperling was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is the assistant to the president for economic policy for the Barack Obama administration.

Todd Stern was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is the special envoy for climate change at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.

Melody C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center for American Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.

Jose H. Villarreal is a director at the Center for American Progress and a senior adviser at the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.

Center for American Progress calls for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control” for guns.

Madeleine K. Albright was a director at the Center for American Progress, the president of the Truman Center for National Policy and an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project.

William J. Perry is an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy and a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Michael Douglas is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and a friend of George Soros.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Jamie S. Gorelick was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and Merrick Garland’s boss.

Merrick Garland’s boss was Jamie S. Gorelick, appointed Jack Smith as special counsel at the United States Department of Justice in charge of investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents, the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Joe Biden Administration and an editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Jack Smith was appointed by Merrick Garland as special counsel at the United States Department of Justice in charge of investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Bruce Mann was a professor at the Harvard Law School and is married to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is married to Bruce Mann and was a law-school professor at the Harvard Law School.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Biography

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/elizabeth-warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Warren

Harvard Law Review

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review

The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.

Barack Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review and the president for the Barack Obama Administration.

Ronald A. Klain was an editor for the Harvard Law Review and a coordinator of government Ebola efforts for the Barack Obama Administration.

Harold H. Koh was a developments editor for the Harvard Law Review and a State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama Administration.

Blake Roberts was an editor for the Harvard Law Review and is the deputy associate counsel for the Barack Obama Administration.

Michael B.G. Froman was an editor for the Harvard Law Review, an assistant to the president for the Barack Obama Administration and is Barack Obama’s law school friend.

Crystal Nix Hines was Barack Obama’s law school friend and a supervising editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Nancy L. McCullough is Barack Obama’s law school friend and was an editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Jonathan T. Molot is Barack Obama’s law school friend and was an editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Thomas J. Perrelli is Barack Obama’s law school friend and was a managing editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Michael J. Gottleib was an editor for the Harvard Law Review and is an associate counsel for the Barack Obama Administration.

Barack Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Mark A. Angelson was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP and a director at the Human Rights First.

James D. Zirin is a senior counsel for Sidley Austin LLP and was a director at the Human Rights First.

William D. Zabel is the chair for the Human Rights First, was George Soros’s divorce lawyer and a trustee at the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, William D. Zabel was his divorce lawyer, a supporter for the Center for American Progress and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights First and the Center for American Progress.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights First and the Center for American Progress.

Danielle C. Gray is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, was an assistant to the president for the Barack Obama Administration and an editor for the Harvard Law Review

Center for American Progress calls for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control” for guns.

Center for American Progress Action Fund is an affiliated advocacy group with the Center for American Progress.

John D. Podesta is the chair & counselor for the Center for American Progress and the chairman for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Ganesh Sitaraman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and was Elizabeth Warren’s senior counsel.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s senior counsel was Ganesh Sitaraman, oversaw the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for which she served as the first special advisor under President Barack Obama, the assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration, is married to Bruce Mann and a U.S. Senate senator.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a bureau for the Federal Reserve System.

Hollister K. Petraeus helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and is married to David H. Petraeus.

David H. Petraeus is married to Hollister K. Petraeus, the KKR Global Institute chairman for KKR & Co. LP.

Kenneth B. Mehlman is a managing director for KKR & Co. LP and was a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for KKR & Co. LP.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Jose H. Villarreal is a senior adviser at the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and a director at the Center for American Progress.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle.

Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html

Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr. great niece, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and was the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), John F. Kerry’s brother and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the president for the Barack Obama administration and the president of the Harvard Law Review.

Bruce Mann was a professor at the Harvard Law School and is married to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is married to Bruce Mann and was a law-school professor at the Harvard Law School.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Biography

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/elizabeth-warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Warren

Harvard Law Review

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review

The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.

Jack Smith received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and was appointed by Merrick Garland as special counsel at the United States Department of Justice in charge of investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents.

Merrick Garland’s was an editor for the Harvard Law Review, appointed Jack Smith as special counsel at the United States Department of Justice in charge of investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified documents, the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Joe Biden Administration and his boss was Jamie S. Gorelick.

Jamie S. Gorelick was Merrick Garland’s boss, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is John F. Kerry’s brother, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP and was an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the president for the Barack Obama administration and the president of the Harvard Law Review.

Robert S. Mueller III was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), investigating interference with Russia in the 2016 U.S. election, special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign, a special counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, James Quarles III is assisting him in the Russia probe, Jeannie Rhee is assisting him in the Russia collusion probe and Aaron Zebley assisting him in the Russia probe.

James Quarles III is assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the Russia probe and was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Jeannie Rhee is assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the Russia collusion probe, was a deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Aaron Zebley is assisting Robert S. Mueller III in the Russia probe and was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Jared Kushner’s law firm is Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Jamie S. Gorelick is his attorney, a senior adviser to the president for the Donald Trump administration and Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

Jamie S. Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

was Merrick Garland’s boss and a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

James F. Collins is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was a U.S. ambassador for Russia and a senior advisor for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Jose H. Villarreal is a senior adviser at the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and a director at the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Ganesh Sitaraman is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and was Elizabeth Warren’s senior counsel.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle and a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for KKR & Co. LP.

Kenneth B. Mehlman was a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and is a managing director for KKR & Co. LP.

David H. Petraeus is the KKR Global Institute chairman for KKR & Co. LP and married to Hollister K. Petraeus.

Hollister K. Petraeus is married to David H. Petraeus and helped establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a bureau for the Federal Reserve System.

Senator Elizabeth Warren oversaw the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for which she served as the first special advisor under President Barack Obama, the assistant to the president for the Barack Obama administration, senior counsel was Ganesh Sitaraman and is married to Bruce Mann and a U.S. Senate senator.

Ganesh Sitaraman was Elizabeth Warren’s senior counsel and is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

PepsiCo, Inc. was a funder for the Center for American Progress.

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was the lobby firm for the Center for American Progress.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Larry D. Thompson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP of governmental affairs, general counsel & secretary for PepsiCo, Inc.

Michael H. Jordan was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the division chairman & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc.

Kimberly Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo and the 27^th director for the U.S. Secret Service.

U.S. Secret Service is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Jeh Charles Johnson is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is the chair for the Roosevelt Institute and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.

Mikhail Gorbachev was an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Jonathan Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, George Soros’s son and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute and the International Rescue Committee.

Dina Dublon is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and a director at PepsiCo, Inc.

Kimberly Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo and the 27^th director for the U.S. Secret Service.

U.S. Secret Service is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Indra K. Nooyi is the chair & CEO for PepsiCo, Inc and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.

International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign, the first lady for the Barack Obama administration, a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP and is married to Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is married to Michelle Obama, was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the president for the Barack Obama administration and the president of the Harvard Law Review.

Bruce Mann was a professor at the Harvard Law School and is married to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is married to Bruce Mann and was a law-school professor at the Harvard Law School.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Biography

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/elizabeth-warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Warren

Harvard Law Review

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review

The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.

Jamie S. Gorelick was Merrick Garland’s boss, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Daniel Vasella is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and a director at PepsiCo, Inc.

Kimberly Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo and the 27^th director for the U.S. Secret Service.

U.S. Secret Service is a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Resources: Past Research

Smaller Bites – Senator Elizabeth Warren (Connecting the Dots: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Senator Mark Kelly & Soros, All Networking)

Friday, October 28, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/smaller-bites-senator-elizabeth-warren.html

Madeleine Albright, 1st Female US Secretary of State, Dies at 84 (Connecting Her Dots In The Soros Network) (Past Research on the Madeleine Albright, Hunter Biden & Kamala Harris)

Thursday, March 24, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/03/madeleine-albright-1st-female-us.html

Jack Smith (U.S. Department of Justice special counsel) (Connecting the Dots: Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Jamie S. Gorelick, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama And His Friends, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Russia, Russia, Russia & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Harvard Law School)

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/05/jack-smith-us-department-of-justice.html

Agency tasked with investigating discrimination accused of discrimination (Past Research on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)

Thursday, April 3, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/agency-tasked-with-investigating.html

Hours After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next (Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)

Thursday, July 21, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html

John Bolton to Newsmax: Trump an Aberration; I'll Be Proven Right (Connecting the Dots: John Bolton, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Human Rights First, Sidley Austin LLP, Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc, Export-Import Bank of the US & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Sidley Austin LLP)

Friday, January 17, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/01/john-bolton-to-newsmax-trump-aberration.html

Chuck Grassley grills Merrick Garland on independence of Hunter Biden investigation (Connecting the Dots: Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, CIA, FBI, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on Merrick Garland & Jamie Gorelick)

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/03/chuck-grassley-grills-merrick-garland.html

Colombia Pres. Yields to Trump, Asks Illegals to Return (Connecting the Dots: Colombia, Immigrants, The Nobel Foundation, The Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), The Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on James F. Collins & Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP)

Saturday, February 1, 2025

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/02/colombia-pres-yields-to-trump-asks.html

Musk on Trump Attack: Head of Secret Service Should Resign (Connecting the Dots: The head of the Secret Service is Kimberly Cheatle, PepsiCo, Alejandro Mayorkas, O'Melveny & Myers LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the Secret Service)

Sunday, July 14, 2024

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2024/07/musk-on-trump-attack-head-of-secret.html

“Tear Down This Wall” (Connecting the Dots: Mikhail Gorbachev, Wheelchair Foundation, Roosevelt Institute, Green Cross International, Global Green USA & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the Roosevelt Institute & Mikhail Gorbachev)

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/01/tear-down-this-wall-connecting-dots.html

Most Post-WWII German Justice Officials Were Former Nazis: Study (Past Research on the ONE Campaign)

Monday, October 10, 2016

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/10/most-post-wwii-german-justice-officials.html

Monday, June 2, 2025

Google Settles by Spending $500M for Compliance Revamp (Connecting the Dots: Google Running The World? Sundar Pichai, Eric E. Schmidt, Economic Club of Washington, Vernon E. Jordan Jr, Bill & Chelsea Clinton, NSA, Commercial Club of Chicago, Microsoft, John Kerry’s Brother Cameron Kerry & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Google Settles by Spending $500M for Compliance Revamp (Connecting the Dots: Google Running The World? Sundar Pichai, Eric E. Schmidt, Economic Club of Washington, Vernon E. Jordan Jr, Bill & Chelsea Clinton, NSA, Commercial Club of Chicago, Microsoft, John Kerry’s Brother Cameron Kerry & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Newsmax.com

Monday, 02 June 2025 10:48 AM EDT

Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page pose at company headquarters in Mountain View, California, six years after launching Google in 1998. (Ben Margot/AP/2004 file

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/google-settlement-500-million/2025/06/02/id/1213248/

Google agreed to spend $500 million over 10 years to overhaul its compliance structure, to settle shareholder litigation accusing the search engine company of antitrust violations, settlement papers show.

The preliminary settlement of so-called derivative litigation against officials at Google parent Alphabet , including Chief Executive Sundar Pichai and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was filed late Friday.

It requires approval by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco.

The changes include creating a standalone board committee to oversee risk and compliance, previously the responsibility of the Alphabet board's audit and compliance committee.

Alphabet would also create a senior vice president-level committee to address regulatory and compliance issues, reporting to Pichai, and a compliance committee consisting of Google product team managers and internal compliance experts.

Shareholders led by two Michigan pension funds accused Google executives and directors of breaching their fiduciary duties by exposing the company to antitrust liability related to its search, Ad Tech, Android and app distribution businesses.

"These reforms, rarely achieved in shareholder derivative actions, constitute a comprehensive overhaul of Alphabet's compliance function," resulting in "deeply rooted culture change," the shareholders' lawyers said.

The changes must remain in place at least four years. Shareholders would not be paid.

Google denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle. The Mountain View, California-based company did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.

The accord was disclosed the same day U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, who last August found Google violated federal antitrust law to maintain dominance in search, completed a hearing to consider how to address the monopoly.

Mehta plans to rule by August. The U.S. Department of Justice has proposed requiring Google to sell its Chrome browser and share search data with rivals.

A derivative lawsuit is where shareholders sue officials on behalf of a company.

The shareholders' lawyers plan to seek up to $80 million for legal fees and expenses, on top of the $500 million. They did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The case is In re: Alphabet Inc Shareholder Derivative Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 21-09388.

Google's Eric Schmidt talks about how to run the world (not that he wants to) (Past Research on Google)

Monday, February 19, 2018

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2018/02/googles-eric-schmidt-talks-about-how-to.html

June 9, 2008 | 3:48 pm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/06/googles-eric-sc.html

Despite its famous motto of "Don't be evil," there are some in the dark corners of the Web who speculate that Google's real plan is to take over the world. Google Watch features headlines such as "Google Must be Stopped," and "Is Google God?" The site Google World Domination even has a countdown clock, which indicates that the Skynet-type moment when we will all be slaves to the mighty Google algorithms will take place in roughly 6 years and 192 days. (Interestingly, the site, which includes a creepy video, features ads by Google, demonstrating how insidious that plot actually might be)

With that type of speculation out there, it's news any time a Google executive talks about running the world.

And that's exactly what Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt did today, sort of.

He didn't say that Google wanted to run the world. But he did offer an interesting suggestion to a crowd of power players in Washington about the best way to do it: Just like Google.

"It is possible to build a culture around innovation. It is possible to build a culture around leadership. And it is possible to build a culture around optimism. Google is an example, but by no means the only example, of a culture that can be built based on relatively scalable principles. We could run our country this way. We could run the world this way."

It was meant to be an inspiring moment ...

...as Schmidt wrapped up a speech to the Economic Club of Washington during a luncheon in a packed ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Click here for an audio clip of Schmidt's comments.

The appearance was a homecoming of sorts for Schmidt. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the club's president and a former President Clinton advisor, noted that Schmidt was born a few blocks away from the hotel at George Washington University Hospital, and grew up in the Northern Virginia suburbs. His mother, Ellie Schmidt, was in the audience.

Schmidt talked about cloud computing and the promise of mobile devices, all the while plugging some Google products. For the journalists sitting in the back of the room (no lunch of seared beef filet with Cabernet reduction and lemon and thyme glazed salmon filet for us), Schmidt did commisserate about the state of the newspaper industry.

"We all care a lot about this. Newspaper demand has never been higher. The problem is revenues have never been lower. So people are reading the newspaper they're just not reading it in a way where the newspapers can make money on it. This is a shared problem. We have to solve it. There's no obviously good solution right now."

One possible solution some have have floated has been for Google to use a sliver of its approximately $175 billion market cap to buy a newspaper, such as the New York Times, but Schmidt recently downplayed such an idea.

Like many Silicon Valley executives who come to Washington, Schmidt spoke broadly about technology (his speech was titled, "The Future of the Internet: Engine for Economic Growth") and did his best not to make any major news. He didn't even come close to mentioning Yahoo, let alone comment on the possibility of Google cutting a deal to place ads next to Yahoo's search results.

Schmidt opted to talk less about the nuts-and-bolts of one of the world's largest companies than the ways in which technology can shape the future. Noting that the United States was founded "by people who saw a better model," Schmidt concluded his speech with this call to arms:

"So let's be revolutionaries. Let's take this opportunity, this huge change that is before us, with technlology, and let's change businesses, communications and the way we interact, on some new principles that reflect the very best of America."

Those sound like the words of someone who might be considering a run for higher office one day, assuming Google isn't running everything by then.

-- Jim Puzzanghera

Puzzanghera, a staff writer, covers tech and media policy from Washington

Photo: Google CEO Eric Schmidt during today's speech before the Economic Club of Washington. Credit: Getty Images.

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