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Joe Biden’s FTC wanted Ernst & Young to punish @elonmusk’s Twitter.
If they didn’t, Ernst & Young feared they would be retaliated against by the government. pic.twitter.com/alpxxOcL8U
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 13, 2023
Related:
X Corp. asks court to terminate Twitter’s privacy settlement with FTC
“…Mr. Roque testified that the FTC’s conduct made him “fe[el] as if the FTC was trying to influence the outcome of the engagement before it had started.” “In some of the discussions… with the FTC, expectations were being conveyed about what those results should be before we had even begun any procedures.”
According to Mr. Roque, he felt that the FTC was attempting to “influence” EY to reach the conclusion that “there were deficiencies in Twitter’s privacy and information security program.” He was so concerned by the FTC’s communications that he and his colleagues discussed whether the agency threatened to become an “adverse threat” to EY’s independence or a party “outside of the arrangement we had with Twitter trying to influence the outcome of our results.”…”
Biden and Democrats using the levers of power in the federal bureaucracy to intimidate and punish people and businesses they don’t like. This is similar to a mafia technique.