National Legal and Policy Center | Promoting Ethics In Public Life | NLPC

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Kevin Cramer/PHOTO: Gage Skidmore (CC)Following aneffort by National Legal and Policy Center to urge the world’s largest investment firm to divest its customers’ money from 137 companies based in communist China, two Senators have also turned up the pressure.In aletter dated Monday, Republican Sens. Martha McSally and Kevin Cramer – of Arizona and North Dakota, respectively – askedBlackRock CEOLarry Fink to explain apparent inconsistencies in the company’s approach to managing its funds. Specifically, the senators wanted to know why BlackRock’s U.S. investments are held to a higher standard as it pertains to appeasing activist investors with a progressive agenda, as opposed to its holdings in foreign companies thatdo not comply with minimal legal and auditing standards.Fink has led his firm into the decision-making of the U.S. companies where BlackRock has its investments, voting “on 18,758 shareholder proposals and participated in 2,269 shareholder Read More 6/16/20- Paul Kamenar, Counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, is interviewed on NewsMax TV s American Agenda about subpoenas issued to members of the Obama administration regarding the origins of the Russia investigation. Read More On June 3, NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar was interviewed on NewsMax TV about ex-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein s Senate testimony. Rosenstein stated that he no basis to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Russian collusion. Read More Peter Flaherty, Chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center is interviewed on NewsMax TV s American Agenda program with Bob Sellers and Sam Sorbo on Antifa s role in the rioting and unrest following the death of George Floyd, and the necessary government response. Read More The Gary Jones era at the United Auto Workers was brief. But if Jones wants a brief prison sentence, he’ll be at the mercy of prosecutors. Two days ago, June 3, Jones, UAW president until last November, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to embezzlement, racketeering and tax fraud related to his role in the diversion of between $1 million and $1.5 million in union funds toward personal luxuries such as vacations, golf outings and cigars, and their coverup. He is set for sentencing on October 6. Thus far, more than a dozen union and auto industry officials have been convicted following an ongoing probe by the FBI, the IRS and the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General. A federal takeover of the 400,000-member UAW remains a possibility.Union Corruption Update has been following this phase of the probe Read More Available Now: Sharpton:(2018 Expanded Edition): A Demagogue's Rise

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