Google Meets with White House Officials Once a Week on Average

Those meetings also took place in the final weeks before the commission settled with Google, backing away from what would have been the biggest antitrust lawsuit since the Justice Department took on Microsoft in the 1990s. In fact, Jennifer Friedman, a White House spokeswoman, told the Journal that the administration is “cognizant that it is inappropriate to discuss issues relating to regulatory enforcement.” However, the documents help illustrate how Google has become a lobbying powerhouse