Microsoft's lobbying efforts eclipse Enron (Kollar-Kotelly hears)

Posted by tadelste on Mar 3, 2006 6:53 AM EDT
ZDNet via henke54; By Matt Loney
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Microsoft's budget for political lobbying exceeded that of Enron, the judge residing over the antitrust case has heard.

The software giant's budget for its Political Action Committee (PAC) increased from about $16,000 in 1995 to $1.6 million in 2000, according to Edward Roeder, a self-styled expert on efforts to influence the U.S. government, and founder of Sunshine Press Services, a news agency devoted to investigating money in politics.

[Ed:She's getting ready to hear much, much more from LXer. Soon -tadelste.]

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