Obama bundler Steven Westly enjoys White House access and DOE funding
The Obama years have been good to venture capitalist and former California gubernatorial candidate Steven Westly.
Westly was a big help to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, and now enjoys significant access to Obama administration officials
The Center for Public Integrity reports that four of the companies in which his venture firm, Westly Group, have invested have received more than $510 million in grants and loans from the Energy Department.
Two of those companies, Tesla Motors and Amyris Biotechnologies, have since gone public.
Westly, who refused to speak to the center, sits on a board that advises Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
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