According to fundraising information collected by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to appear Friday at a Hillary Clinton campaign fundraiser in Cincinnati chaired by Allan Berliant , CEO of frozen food conglomerate Best Express Foods. The company is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which in 2011 said it had discovered listeria and “significant violations” of food safety regulations at the company’s manufacturing facility in Michigan. (Three years later, the FDA said the company had addressed the violations but that future “inspections and regulatory activities will further assess the adequacy and sustainability of these corrections.”) The next president will be responsible for implementing recent rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which governs the FDA.
Three days later, Chelsea Clinton is scheduled to be in Columbus, Ohio, for a campaign fundraiser at the home of Susan Tomasky, who is listed as a board member of the multibillion-dollar energy behemoth Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG). The New Jersey company is one of the nation’s largest utilities, and has nuclear power plants and gas pipeline interests. In recent months, PSEG has lobbied federal regulators on nuclear energy issues, and lobbied Congress on environmental rules , energy regulations and issues related to nuclear waste disposal and a decontamination fee.
Next Tuesday, Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear at back-to-back fundraisers co-hosted by officials from Wall Street colossus BlackRock — including Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former State Department chief of staff and a current board member of the Clinton Foundation. According to Politico, a BlackRock fundraiser for Clinton had been scheduled for last week, but Clinton's campaign postponed it until after the New Hampshire primary following criticism of her Wall Street ties by her opponent, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
BlackRock has a major interest in federal policymaking: According to disclosure reports, the investment firm has recently lobbied Congress and government regulators on “retirement security and savings proposals,” as well as financial regulations. IBT previously reported that BlackRock could gain from a Pentagon proposal to shift billions of dollars of military pension money into a federal thrift savings plan managed, in part, by the Wall Street firm. The president appoints the board that oversees the thrift savings plan — and the plan’s management contracts with financial firms like BlackRock.
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