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Jack Abramoff Investigation
http://www.c-span.org/special/Abramoff.asp
04/30/06 C-SPAN Book TV: "K Street Gang", Abramoff Scandal & His boss, Preston Gates, Bill Gate's father.
Audio: http://www.apfn.net/pogo/M001I06043006-k-street-gang-4-30-06.MP3 (9.03MB) 39Min 27 Sec
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/abramoff_scandal.htm
http://techrights.org/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/
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Microsoft Management’s unbridled love of the corrupt GOP/RNC is no surprise, as Microsoft’s top management includes some of President Bush’s more prominent fund raisers. Microsoft’s ex-CFO John Connors, and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, are both prominent Bush supporters.http://people.forbes.com/profile/john-g-connors/57739
Only recently Microsoft had to “fire” consultant fundamentalist christian Ralph Reed after a public outcry over Reed’s influence in local politics via Microsoft. Additionally it appears that Ralph Reed was on the Microsoft Payroll at the same time he headed up President Bush’s SE 2004 Campaign.
Another Microsoft “consultant”, the anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who also specializes in picking the economic bones of countries we invade, is still on the payrolls of Microsoft as far as we know.
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John G. Connors
Independent Director
Nike, Inc.
Beaverton , OR
Sector: CONSUMER GOODS / Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories
52 Years Old
Mr. Connors, 52, a director since 2005, is a partner in Ignition Partners LLC, a Seattle-area venture capital firm. Mr. Connors served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation from December 1999 to May 2005. He joined Microsoft in 1989 and held various management positions, including Corporate Controller from 1994 to 1996, Vice President, Worldwide Enterprise Group in 1999, and Chief Information Officer from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Connors is a certified public accountant. Mr. Connors is a member of the Board of Trustees ? Swedish Medical Center, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Scout Analytics Inc., FiREapps, Inc., DataSphere Technologies, Inc., Splunk, Inc., Tier 3, Inc., Korrio, Inc., the Washington Policy Center, and the University of Washington Tyee Club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
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Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Swiss American father and a Jewish American mother. He grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan and now sits on its board of directors. In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a A.B. in mathematics and economics.
At college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who later became CEO of General Electric.[5] In 1980, he dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft.[6]
http://www.cheappower.org/power_struggle.htm
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Condemnation of PGE's distribution system -- the network of poles and wires that sends electricity to customers' homes and businesses -- is a "no brainer," said Tim Sercombe, an attorney with Portland's
Preston Gates & Ellis.
From there, questions arise. The city might run into legal problems condemning gas-fired power plants, for example, attorneys say. Legal challenges also could erupt if the city tried to take over hydro plants, some of which are partially owned by Native American tribes, or if the city tried to assume some of PGE's long-term electric power contracts.
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Preston-Gates-Ellis-OKs-merger-1222485.php
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
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Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Swiss American father and a Jewish American mother. He grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan and now sits on its board of directors. In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a A.B. in mathematics and economics.
At college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who later became CEO of General Electric.[5] In 1980, he dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft.[6]
http://www.cheappower.org/power_struggle.htm
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Condemnation of PGE's distribution system -- the network of poles and wires that sends electricity to customers' homes and businesses -- is a "no brainer," said Tim Sercombe, an attorney with Portland's
Preston Gates & Ellis.
From there, questions arise. The city might run into legal problems condemning gas-fired power plants, for example, attorneys say. Legal challenges also could erupt if the city tried to take over hydro plants, some of which are partially owned by Native American tribes, or if the city tried to assume some of PGE's long-term electric power contracts.
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Preston-Gates-Ellis-OKs-merger-1222485.php
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