<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><h2 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-weight: normal; background-color: #ffffff;"><a href="http://www.accuracy.org/release/trump-cabinet-party-time-for-the-corporate-elite/" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: none; outline: none;" target="_blank"></a></h2><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Join John Sakowicz and Sid Cooperrider with guest Rick Claypool.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">BACKGROUND</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s going on with the Trump administration is beyond fixing with ethics policies. We are witnessing the wholesale takeover of government by an extremist faction of the corporate class.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">About Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin -- before joining Trump, Mnuchin rose through the kind of elite institutions Donald Trump spent his campaign vilifying. Mnuchin was tapped into Yale’s Skull and Bones secret society, became a Goldman Sachs partner like his father before him, ran a hedge fund, worked with George Soros, funded Hollywood blockbusters and bought a failed bank, IndyMac, with billionaires including John Paulson. They renamed it OneWest, and it drew protests for foreclosing on U.S. borrowers, and ultimately generated considerable profits, selling the business last year to CIT Group Inc. for $3.4 billion.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">RICK CLAYPOOL</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Claypool is research director for Public Citizen’s president’s office. He just wrote the report “<a href="https://medium.com/public-citizen/corporate-interests-infest-trump-transition-at-federal-agencies-c42d32cb5ec1#.m05iuhfbh" target="_blank" style="color: #015382; text-decoration: none;">Corporate Interests Infest Trump Transition at Federal Agencies</a>,” which states: “As a candidate, President-Elect Donald Trump railed against the “rigged political establishment” and promised to “send the special interests packing.” The federal agency landing teams announced by the President-Elect’s Transition Team, however, suggest the entrenched establishment of corporate interests, Republican insiders and former lobbyists will have significant influence over the incoming administration.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">See: <a href="https://medium.com/public-citizen/corporate-interests-infest-trump-transition-at-federal-agencies-c42d32cb5ec1#.7yiqgwbvb" target="_blank">https://medium.com/public-citizen/corporate-interests-infest-trump-transition-at-federal-agencies-c42d32cb5ec1#.7yiqgwbvb</a> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Out of the 75 landing team members announced by the Trump Transition organization, 70 percent (53 members) have some corporate affiliation. Some are CEOs (Paul Atkins, Willie Gaynor, Tom Leppert, Ray Washburne), some served corporations as lobbying or legal clients (Joel Leftwich, Doug Domenech, Robert Mackichan, Ronald Tenpas), some worked at the Heritage Foundation or other corporate-backed think tanks (Justin Johnson, Jim Carafano, Thomas Pyle, Myron Ebell).” Claypool also wrote the report “<a href="https://medium.com/public-citizen/donald-trump-clean-government-reformer-a093d9232981#.d39skafyq" target="_blank" style="color: #015382; text-decoration: none;">Donald Trump, Clean Government Reformer?</a>“</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">See: <a href="https://medium.com/public-citizen/donald-trump-clean-government-reformer-a093d9232981#.e6naq848p" target="_blank">https://medium.com/public-citizen/donald-trump-clean-government-reformer-a093d9232981#.e6naq848p</a> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">KMEC RADIO</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: large;">We broadcast at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA, from the offices of the Mendocino Environmental Center. 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