{"id":58,"date":"2012-02-08T14:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/?p=58"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:22:07","slug":"att-shareholders-demand-answers-david-saleh-rauf-politico-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/att-shareholders-demand-answers-david-saleh-rauf-politico-com\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T shareholders demand answers – David Saleh Rauf – POLITICO.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some AT&T shareholders want more than just dollars and cents from the board of directors in the aftermath of the company\u2019s aborted takeover of T-Mobile: They want to know how company money is being spent to influence politics. \u2026 The divide over political disclosure at AT&T is nothing new \u2014 shareholder groups have been pressuring the company on the issue since 2004. \u2026 This year, however, AT&T investors are planning to put the measure up for vote again \u2026 as the company is coming off a publicly bruising and politically expensive battle over its failed T-Mobile deal.<\/span>
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\n\u201cAT&T\u2019s recent complete disaster in the Deutsche Telekom deal \u2026 that\u2019s exactly the kind of thing that will make the board and managers and shareholders think long and hard about disclosure of political activity,\u201d said\u00a0<\/span>John Coates<\/strong>, a corporate governance expert and professor at Harvard Law School.<\/span><\/p>\n

AT&T shareholders demand answers – David Saleh Rauf – POLITICO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some AT&T shareholders want more than just dollars and cents from the board of directors in the aftermath of the company\u2019s aborted takeover of T-Mobile: They want to know how company money is being spent to influence politics. \u2026 The divide over political disclosure at AT&T is nothing new \u2014 shareholder groups have been pressuring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61271],"tags":[3460,26746,2541],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-at-law","tag-att","tag-corporate-governance","tag-john-coates","p1","y2012","m02","d08","h10"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}