Posted on 04/04/2023 5:24:33 AM PDT by george76
The Department of Justice is investigating Big Tech companies for antitrust violations, and it’s basically a case of DOJ vs. DOJ.
That’s because in preparation for just this sort of thing, firms have lawyered up — with hundreds of attorneys hired away from DOJ.
Big Tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and HP — have hired at least 360 lawyers from the Department of Justice since 2011, found government watchdog American Accountability Foundation.
That’s 30 dozen lawyers.
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Heck, even judges do it, like Michael Luttig, a federal appeals judge who left the bench to work for Boeing.
But when the regulators go to work for those they regulated — at a big boost in pay — it’s more concerning.
There are several potential kinds of corruption in this revolving-door phenomenon.
One is the risk that government lawyers will be soft on the companies they regulate in hopes of later receiving big-bucks jobs from them.
Another is that they’ll promulgate overly complex regulations so that the companies they regulate will be pressured to hire the only people who understand those regulations, the people who drafted them.
(And there’s not really a contradiction here, because overly complex regulations typically benefit the kind of big, rich corporations that can afford to hire former bureaucrats for big bucks, at the expense of smaller competitors who can’t.)
There’s also the risk that hiring former bureaucrats increases the temptation of those working for the government to go easy so they can have a lucrative job someday too.
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Big corporations adopt diversity, equity and inclusion policies that are as radical as any university’
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James Madison wrote that the very definition of tyranny is the accumulation of all power in a single set of hands.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Now move along...or are you an insurrectionist?/sarc
Kabuki.
Its a problem everywhere in Washington. Our covid response was bought by big pharma. The ed department protects Big Ed while it delivers overpriced garbage to students. The examples are endless.
How much does an in house lawyer at Google make?
The estimated total pay for a Legal Counsel at Google is $309,913 per year.Feb 10, 2023
Facebook Inc. general counsel Jennifer Newstead earned nearly $19.14 million in total compensation in her first year with the social media giant, according to a 2019 proxy statement filed by the company April 10.Apr 10, 2020
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Assuming a 22% bonus (with company multiplier) that would make total complete around $364k per year. Aug 14, 2021
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