Sam Stein, The Huffington Post, February 14, 2008
Even as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was blasting Sen. Barack Obama for his ties to the Exelon Corporation, Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars through his firm from the very same nuclear energy giant.
This past week, Burson Marsteller, Penn’s powerhouse consulting agency, was paid more than $230,000 by Exelon to help renew a nuclear energy license in New Jersey, the Huffington Post has learned. The payment was for work that took place over several months, and Burson is still employed by the company.
“They did some work for us in New Jersey between June and November,” said Craig Nesbit, vice president of communications for Exelon Generation, a subsidiary. “That bill was invoiced on December 12 and it just took that long to pay these things… We still are paying them a little bit but it is ramping down.”
It has been public knowledge that Exelon is a client of Burson. But news of the recent payment comes less than two weeks after the Clinton campaign, and Penn himself, took Obama to task for what they implied was preferential treatment for the company.
Read More Here
Hillary and Obama Both Have Ties to Nuclear Energy Giant
Sam Stein, The Huffington Post, February 14, 2008
Even as Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was blasting Sen. Barack Obama for his ties to the Exelon Corporation, Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars through his firm from the very same nuclear energy giant.
This past week, Burson Marsteller, Penn’s powerhouse consulting agency, was paid more than $230,000 by Exelon to help renew a nuclear energy license in New Jersey, the Huffington Post has learned. The payment was for work that took place over several months, and Burson is still employed by the company.
“They did some work for us in New Jersey between June and November,” said Craig Nesbit, vice president of communications for Exelon Generation, a subsidiary. “That bill was invoiced on December 12 and it just took that long to pay these things… We still are paying them a little bit but it is ramping down.”
It has been public knowledge that Exelon is a client of Burson. But news of the recent payment comes less than two weeks after the Clinton campaign, and Penn himself, took Obama to task for what they implied was preferential treatment for the company.
Read More Here