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332 The manufacturer, which: Juliet Eilperin, “Bristol-Myers Presses for Patent,” Washington Post, November 28, 2001, www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A25330-2001Nov27.
333 Provide advice re: “BMS Report Images,” Center for Responsive Politics, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/client_reports.php?lname=Bristol-Myers+Squibb&year=2001; See Marwood’s 2000 lobbying disclosure form for BMSL.
334 “healthcare advisory and financial”: “Marwood Group,” www.marwoodgroup.com.
335 The Marwood Group LLC: “The Marwood Group LLC,” BusinessWeek.com, April 7, 2009, http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=9638663.
336 If the currency of Washington: Jeffrey Young, “Ted Kennedy Jr.’s Firm Sues over Political Intel,” TheHill.com, November 20, 2007, http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/ted-kennedy-jr.s-firm-sues-over-political-intel-2007-11-20.html.
337 Edward M. Kennedy, Jr.: Michael Maiello, “Ponying Up to Camelot,” Forbes.com, April 10, 2004, www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0419/054.html.
338 The $10 billion Chicago: Ibid.
339 When the dispute became: Ibid.
340 In Senator Kennedy’s home state: Raphael Lewis, “Cahill Fund-Raisers Gain Pension Funds,” Boston Globe, February 11, 2005, www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/11/cahill_fund_raisers_gain_pension_funds.
341 Rubin even disputes: Ibid.
10. STEALTH LOBBYISTS: THE FORMER CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS WHO SECRETLY INFLUENCE FEDERAL POLICIES AND SPENDING
342 There are now 15,150: “Lobbying Database,” Center for Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org/lobby/index.php.
343 “beneath” him: David D. Kirkpatrick and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Daschle’s Ambitions Collided, Friends Say,” New York Times, February 4, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/us/politics/05daschle.html?hp.
344 “He’s got a lot”: Christopher Lee, “Daschle Moving to K Street,” Washington Post, March 14, 2005, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32604-2005Mar13.html.
345 “You can’t be advising”: Kirkpatrick and Stolberg, “Daschle’s Ambitions Collided, Friends Say.”
346 “Daschle is merely”: Ibid.
347 Our health care: Alston + Bird LLP, “Health Care Legislative & Public Policy,” www.alston.com/health_legislative/.
348 http://www.alston.com/services/serviceparent.aspx?service=326.
349 Ibid.
350 “efforts to rescue”: Timothy J. Burger, “Mitchell’s Firm Worked for Dubai Ruler in Jockey Case,” Bloomberg.com, January 27, 2009, www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aa7hdtvtfYxc&refer=worldwide.
351 Iraq Reconstruction: “Iraq Reconstruction,” www.dlapiper.com/iraq_reconstruction/.
352 According to Bloomberg News: Burger, “Mitchell’s Firm Worked for Dubai Ruler in Jockey Case.”
353 In the past: U.S. Department of Justice, “Exhibit A,” www.fara.gov/docs/3712-Exhibit-AB-20081215-12.pdf.
354 “to help my clients”: “Obama Aide Joins Ogilvy as Adviser,” New York Times, January 26, 2009, http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/obama-aide-joins-ogilvy-as-adviser/.
355 “meeting Ogilvy clients”: Jeanne Cummings, “Daschle, Obama Aide Joins K Street,” Politico.com, February 18, 2009, www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18928.html.
11. THE SHEER CHUTZPAH OF COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL EXECUTIVES
356 “gall, brazen nerve”: Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish (New York: Pocket Books, 2000).
357 “delinquent home mortgages”: Eric Lipton, “Ex-Leaders of Countrywide Profit from Bad Loans,” New York Times, March 3, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/business/04penny.html.
358 For example, PennyMac recently: David Mildenberg and Linda Shen, “PennyMac, Led by Ex-Countrywide Head, Buys FDIC Loans,” Bloomberg.com, January 7, 2009, www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVYn.SXOHh48&refer=home.
359 “It’s like Jeffrey Dahmer”: Gail Collins, “The Rant List,” New York Times, March 4, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/opinion/05collins.html.
360 PennyMac is headed by: Ruthie Ackerman, “Countrywide Execs Get New Home at PennyMac,” Forbes.com, March 24, 2008, www.forbes.com/2008/03/24/pennymac-countrywide-update-markets-equity-cx_ra_0324markets29.html.