The New York Times
Washington has been exciting for some in Biden’s team
WAS SHINGTON – Treasury Secretary, Janet L. Biden’s election as president for Yellen raises more than two 2 million in recovery fees from large corporations and street banks that oversee interest in monetary policy. After confirming his expectation led by the Treasury Department. Yellen’s Paid Speaking Appearance – which includes 2 2992,000 from Investment Bank City for nine presentations – is included in the attractive payments of three leading prospective members of Wall Street, Big Tech and corporate interests. The payment, which came out in a statement of advertisements covering the previous two years and released on New Year’s Eve, raised fears among progressive activists concerned about the influence of special interests around Biden, which they see as part of the establishment of democracy. Who did not adequately accept liberal priorities. Sign up from the Morning Newsletter Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinkon was paid a total of about પસંદગી 1.5 million to choose from the New York Times, which he advised to help find, helped WestExec Advisors, where he advised several corporations, including Facebook, Boeing, private equity giant Blackstone and asset management. The selection of company Lazard.Biden as director for the director of national intelligence, Avril Haynes, paid $ 180,000 to consult for the data-mining company Palantir, who was a U.S. citizen. Has raised liberal hack calls to provide data and surveillance services for law enforcement, including immigration and customs enforcement. In their disclosure statements, Yellen, Blinken, and Haynes each insert ethical explanations in which they promise to avoid involvement in certain matters that may affect any holding they have, or with which they have worked in the past year, unless they are ethics officers. Will not receive a written apology from. The three could prolong the conflict of interest window for more than a year if Biden approaches the expected ethics policy. His administration officials have been involved in policies for two years that could affect the business interests of their policy. Yellen and Blink also hinted at curtailing their interests in large corporations such as AT&T, ConocoPhillips, Dow, and Pfizer, including Yellen-owned stocks. And Raytheon. Blink said it would sell its stake in Westexex Advisors as well as its affiliate venture capital firm. Blinken said in its disclosure that the value of the claim ranged from 1.5 1.5 million to 6 6 million. David Segal, executive director of Progressive Group Demand Progress, said he still has concerns despite officials promising to abide by the conflict of interest rules. “This is an unfortunate situation,” he said, noting that Biden is trying to bridge the gap between his administration and President Donald Trump. In the Trump administration, representatives of corporate America and Wall Street held leading positions, and conflicts of interest were heightened. The filings by Biden’s team give another glimpse of Washington’s long-running door. Officials whose parties have lost power monetize their internal skills and connections in the private sector, then return to government when their party pulls out of the White House. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Yellen, began giving paid speeches in February 2018, within a month. The year of the conclusion of his term at the Fed. She was also a consultant to Magellan Financial Group Limited, an Australia-based investment fund manager who paid her 125 125,000. Haynes left his post as Deputy National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama at the end of his term in 2017, and almost immediately. For six months she worked as a consultant for Paltir. When Haynes joined Biden’s transition team during the summer, a spokesman sought to remove him from Plantier’s data collection and surveillance, saying much of his work for the company was related to diversity and inclusion. The largest share of Haynes’s revenue came from Columbia University, which paid more than 4 40,440,000 to run an international research project and give lectures at the university’s law school. She was paid સલાહ 150,000 for advice for an applied physics lab at Johns Hopkins University, and about $ 55,000 for advice and introductions to WestEx consultants, a fund that helped fund Blinken, who served in the Obama administration. Served as. WestAssex advisers about eight months after he left office, along with three other officials from the Obama administration. The firm, which bears the name of a small street running between the White House’s West Wing and the Eisenhower Executive Office building, was looking for customers. Advice to navigate the federal government. The PA also linked to venture capital funds that advised companies to expand to federal contracts or other new work. Blanken’s disclosure form shows that he has worked with 17 WestEx customers, including Micro, Ft, Uber, AT&T, FedEx, LinkedIn, Softbank of Japan. , Pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences & McKinsey & Co. The global consulting firm.westex said in a statement that after Blinkon emerged as a potential Secretary of State, he said he helped business leaders “make the best decisions in a complex and volatile international landscape.” Blinken also publicly defended tech companies, while Facebook was a customer of WestExx. While tech companies were under pressure during the election of 201 companies for failing to combat ambiguity – including Facebook posts that were part of Russia’s efforts to promote Trump’s presidential campaign – Blink said the blame should be placed primarily on Russia. “Do better to protect against malicious actors on tech platforms, but let’s not lose sight of the jungle for trees: the problem is Russia and other actors who use our openness against us, not platforms,” Blinken said in an interview with the published Fast Company. Was. October October 2017. “The biggest mistake we can make is to get into a circular firing squad with government and technology companies,” Blink said in a statement, referring to him as a consultant to both Google’s current company Facebook and Alphabet. Google spokesman Castadeda said the company had hired WestExec for a month in 2018 to advise on tech policy, but added that the advice was “given by others in the pay firm, not by Mr. Blinken.” In 2009, Obama asked the government As an officer prohibited all appointments to participate for two years in “any special matter”, which is “directly and significantly” related to the former employer or former client, including federal regulation. This may affect the former client. Biden has not yet released details of what kind of restrictions will be imposed on his political appointments. This article was originally published in The New York Times. (C) 2021 The New York Times Company
