The Hill reports on the lobbying activities of companies that are apparently in line to receive $50 million to create and run a database. Dow Jones & Co., IBM and SAS Institute have all lobbied on the bill, according to congressional records. Teradata, an Ohio-based data analytics and warehousing firm, has been a prominent supporter […]
Month: December 2009
Details lacking in House’s transparency move?
Roll Call reports that some details were not disclosed when the House released its Statement of Disbursements recently. That didn’t stop me from finding some interesting disbursements, but I only scanned the first volume.
DynCorp and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
WSJ’s Law Blog reports on DynCorp’s actions after its recent disclosures relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Here’s the situation: DynCorp, a defense contractor, last week fired one of its top lawyers — executive counsel and chief compliance officer Curtis Schehr. The company didn’t explain the move, which was announced in an SEC filing […]