Why Isn’t DOJ Investigating Possible Chuck Schumer-Facebook Pay For Play?

According to the New York Times, During the 2016 election cycle, Chuck Schumer Raised more money from Facebook employees than any other member of Congress (about $40K) according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Schumer’s daughter Alison was hired by Facebook and is now a marketing manager in Facebook’s New York office and the Senator protected Facebook from an investigation in the Senate.

It sure looks hinky,” political strategist Susan Del Percio told The Post. “This is an industry that’s been trying for years to fend off heavy government regulation by actively cultivating relationships with senators and House members.”

Why isn’t the DOJ investigating Chuck Schumer’s “special relationship” with Facebook?

The New York Times reported:
<><> during the 2016 election cycle, Democrat Sen Chuck Schumer raised $40K from Facebook employees,
more than any other member of Congress (as per the Center for Responsive Politics).
<><> Schumer’s daughter, Alison, is a six-figure paid marketing manager in Facebook’s NY office,

<><> Sen Schumer went to bat for Facebook and protected Facebook from a Senate investigation.

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REFERENCE---CIRCA JULY 2018---Facebook suspends analytics firm investigating data use
The Hill | 07/20/18 | John Bowden / FR Posted by yesthatjallen

Facebook has suspended a Boston-based analytics firm as the company probes the types of data the firm harvested from the Facebook platform and whether Crimson Hexagon's contracts with the U.S. government...... and its nonprofit tied to Russia's government...... violate company policies.

Representatives for Facebook told the WSJ that the company was previously unaware of some of the contracts held by the firm. Crimson Hexagon, advertises itself as the holder of more than one trillion social media posts scraped from Facebook.........and other social media sites.

“Facebook has a responsibility to help protect people’s information, which is one of the reasons why we have tightened” access to users' personal information, Facebook's VP for partnerships Ime Archibong told the Journal. He added that Facebook allows firms like Crimson Hexagon to produce “anonymized insights for business purposes.” A separate spokesman for the company told the Journal that “based on our investigation to date, Crimson Hexagon did not obtain any Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately.”

Crimson Hexagon's chief technology officer Chris Bingham told the Journal that his company does not collect private information, adding that they are “working together to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” The two companies plan to meet in the upcoming days.

U.S. government agencies paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 separate contracts in the past four years, according to the Journal. The company has also worked with companies based in foreign countries including Russia and Turkey, the Journal reported.

Facebook responded to a firestorm of criticism earlier this year when it was revealed that another firm, Cambridge Analytica, had obtained the personal information of tens of millions of users without their knowledge or consent. The firm worked with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, though it says it did not use the collected data during that time.

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