brother of one of biden's closest advisers has secured a lobbying contract with online giant amazon jefferson registered to lobby for amazon just after the presidential election his brother steve formerly a lobbyist himself will soon serve as a top white house counselor sources close to the siblings insist they won't mix family and business. jeff has never and will never lobby his brother on behalf of any of his clients and c have had no role in his brother's business since he sold his stake in the firm in 2012 steve and jeff keep their professional activities distinctly separate is that typically a rivera from the online news outlet reactionary times dot com who believes the lobbying post is far from a coincidence of course there's going to be conversations that take place between the brothers regarding amazon's interest and the fact that you know one of the brothers it has a direct line into the president but this is something you know the the institution of lobbying is something that's going to come under fire and under more scrutiny because it's joe biden as president and we already know