The brother of one of the president-elect’s top advisers, Joe Biden, has recently secured a lobbying deal with tech giant Amazon.
Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of the councilor appointed by the Biden White House Steve Ricchetti
Steve Ricchetti: Biden Advisor’s brother Ricchetti, hired as a lobbyist for Amazon Left, is stepping up pressure on Biden for his promise of pressure ethics. Biden forms a team of MORE informants, registered to press for Amazon Web Services, the technology company’s cloud platform, on November 13, according to a new pressure release report obtained by CNBC.
The report comes later said ethics lawyers on CNBC last month, Steve Ricchetti may have to turn down issues that could affect his brother’s clients.
However, a source familiar with the sibling’s relationship told CNBC that the two planned to separate their professional and personal lives.
“Jeff has never pressured his brother on behalf of any of his clients, and Steve has had no role in his brother’s business since he sold his stake in the firm in 2012,” the source said. on condition of anonymity because the relationship is private, he told reporters.
The Hill has contacted the transition team of Biden, Jeff Ricchetti and Amazon to comment on the informed contract.
Biden said during the month of May an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” that Amazon “should start paying its taxes.”
“I don’t think any company, I don’t care how big they are, the Lord Almighty, should absolutely be in a position where they don’t pay taxes and make billions and billions of dollars, No. 1,” Biden added at the time.
According to CNBC, the disclosure report indicates that Jeff Ricchetti plans to press for Amazon specifically on issues related to the coronavirus pandemic and the CARES Act.
The report also noted that Ricchetti also registered to lobby for Evofem Biosciences on Nov. 15, through which he will focus on “federal health policies regarding contraceptive services coverage.”
This comes as progressive legislators have pushed Biden made an ethical commitment similar to executive order of the former president barack Obama
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Steve Ricchetti previously worked as a pressure group, as he has done Tom Vilsack
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Elizabeth Warren, the brother of Biden councilor Ricchetti, hired as a lobbyist for Amazon Left, is stepping up pressure on Biden for his promise of pressure ethics. Warren and other senators are seeking investigation into the Trump administration resuming federal executions MORE (Missa D), Ed Markey
Ed Markey: Biden Advisor’s brother Ricchetti, hired as a lobbyist for Amazon Left, increases pressure on Biden for his promise of pressure ethics. Warren and other senators are seeking investigation into the Trump administration resuming federal executions MORE (Missa D) i Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley: Biden Advisor’s brother Ricchetti, hired as a lobbyist for Amazon Left, is stepping up pressure on Biden for his promise of pressure ethics. MSNBC’s Ruhle challenges Sanders to push 200 MORE stimulus controls (D-Ore.) he wrote to Biden this week, seeking an ethical promise that includes a total ban on lobbyists employed by corporations to serve the administration and requiring more extensive public reporting of all lobbying activities directed at the White House.
“We strongly support your commitment to demonstrate with your actions, not just your words, that the public officials of the Biden-Harris administration will serve all Americans, not just themselves or reduce special interests. “, wrote the legislators.
Biden did not outline the details of any such commitment, but said he would improve the Obama administration’s commitment and “address not only the undue influence of pressure groups, but also any undue or inappropriate influence of self-interest.” , financial and others “, according to its website.