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Ways investors gain ‘political intelligence’ facing public scrutiny

May 9, 2013
Washington Post

By Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger and Dina ElBoghdady

With their boss playing a busy role in the push to overhaul the country’s immigration laws, staffers for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) still have found time to talk with an unlikely interest group: Wall Street analysts.

Investors are interested in the bill because of a handful of provisions that could hurt the profit margins — and stock prices — of outsourcing companies that require a large volume of short-term visas to bring foreign workers to the United States.

Intel for investors: What’s going on behind closed doors in Washington

May 2, 2013
Washington Post

By Jerry Markon and Jia Lynn Yang, Published: May 2

The Washington-based firm Height Securities is a small player in a burgeoning financial field where companies seek to acquire valuable information about even the most minor of federal actions and provide it to investors.

Sunlight on Lobbying in Albany

October 18, 2012
the New York Times (Editorial)

Given all the scandals that have embarrassed Albany in recent years, the Legislature’s approval of a new ethics law last year was mostly good news. There will be “no more secrets,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo crowed as lawmakers were agreeing on the final bill. The governor boasted that New Yorkers, at last, would finally know whether lawmakers were working for the voters or the lobbyists.

Groups Admit to Lobbying Illegally to Aid Mayor’s Plans

July 3, 2012
New York Times
By RAY RIVERA
 
 
The city’s economic development agency and two other orga

Jay Doherty and the City Club of Chicago Under Fire

June 2012
Chicago Magazine
By David Bernstein

Jay Doherty, his clients, and the City Club speakers

On April 8, 2009, a capacit

Wal-Mart took part in lobbying campaign to amend anti-bribery law

April 24, 2012
Washington Post
By Tom Hamburger, Brady Dennis and Jia Lynn Yang,

Wal-Mart, the giant retailer now under fire over allegations of foreign bribery in Mexico, has participated in a

Teachers union leads in record year of lobbying lawmakers

March 6, 2012
LA Times
By Patrick McGreevy, 

Reporting from Sacramento—
State Assemblyman Warren Furutani looked out over a sea of red — protesting

LaHood: Lawmakers should reveal personal links to legislation

March 1, 2012
PJ Star
By CHRIS KAERGARD

 
PEORIA —
Do state lawmakers owe it to the public to be upfront about it when the