Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
The progressive advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday launched a new project aimed at tracking the incoming Trump administration's approach to corporate crime , an effort the watchdog said is particularly urgent given that many of the companies currently under federal investigation have connections to the president-elect. Public Citizen found that of 192 individual corporations currently facing federal probes or cases, a third 'have known ties with the Trump administration.
Reuters reported last week that 'Musk's potential to have extraordinary clout with the new administration raises questions about the fate of federal investigations and regulatory actions affecting his business empire, of which at least 20 are ongoing, according to three sources familiar with SpaceX and Tesla operations and the companies' interaction with the U.S.
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