Quick Picks: Citi Execs’ Office Redo and Lobbying Forms that Need a Redo

by Alexandra Andrews
ProPublica, March 19, 2009, 10:35 a.m.

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Our editors’ picks of the latest investigative stories around the Web:

Citigroup, which has has reaped $45 billion in bailout money, is planning to spend about $10 million on new offices for top executives, reports Bloomberg News. Citi told Bloomberg: “Based on estimates made when the project was initiated, we expect to generate savings in the next few years well in excess of the project costs.”

The Center for Responsive Politics found that congressional disclosure forms filed by lobbyists are often “bare-bones,” making it hard to determine how special interests are trying to shape policy. At the Senate Office of Public Records, CRP found “nearly 19,000 reports [since 1998] totaling at least $565 million in payments to lobbying firms for activity that was almost entirely unaccounted for.”

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