The US government is the world’s largest purchaser of consumer goods. Amazon wants a piece
Vox
By Brett Bachman
“Even if she is outside that one-year window, there’s still something unsavory about a former government official using their access and relationships to shift policy in a certain company’s favor,” said Lisa Gilbert, the vice president of legislative affairs at Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group. “It’s absolutely a larger strategy on the part of Amazon to hire insiders in order to utilize every lever of power they can.”