a private equity also joined a law and lobbying firm alston and bird is now another one called d.l.a. piper he's become the face of the problem because everyone knows that tom daschle will lobby use that he meets with government officials that he meets with president obama that he coordinates meetings with legislators with policy folks and businesses from health care and energy to other sectors and he does this openly. and at the same time it does not register so given his prominence in washington d.c. you know helping president obama with this health care overhaul. associated with many different think tanks that are constantly in the news and is it different functions in the city he does all this while flouting the law you know one of the most damning things about the article is that connection to the plan to have retailers like gap skirt around responsibility for the bangladesh and garment factory collapse that killed more than a thousand people the i was wonder if you get a lot on that connection. sure well we go through many different anecdotes but this is one of the more tragic ones of

want to pay for any of these necessary upgrades or be liable for future disasters so they had d.l.a. piper dash was firm and go out and sell an alternative plan that does not keep them on the hook for any future liabilities saving them a lot of money but potentially causing more death and pain in the future so what's interesting here is as d.l.a. piper lawyers and officials went around the city selling this alternative weak labor clare no one knew that they were being paid by gap one of the big companies better if used to play ball. that's just another example of the shadow lobbying complex that you have folks selling policy selling influence and especially the way that these policies are acted without registering and without disclosing if you listen to their rhetoric or when they're walking around the city selling this plan they said that they are with base they are affiliated with think tanks or they are you know simply former government officials no one knew who was really behind this plan simply because they did register yeah and you give the series a dozens of examples here i mean thi