Thursday, August 06, 2009

Treasury finalizing TARP lobbying rules

The Washington Times reports:
The Treasury Department has yet to establish rules on lobbying for its $700 billion Wall Street bailout, although the head of the program's independent watchdog says he has found no undue outside influence that has affected the program.

An audit released Thursday by Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), says that the Treasury Department is in the final stages of drafting rules on lobbying for bailout money -- some 10 months after the program began.
Really? No "undue outside influence" ? How about this?