CORPORATE INTEGRITY PROJECT
NLPC promotes integrity in corporate governance, including honesty and fair play in relationships with shareholders, employees, business partners, and customers. In doing so, NLPC places special emphasis on the following:
- Asserting that the social responsibility of the corporation is to defend and advance the interests of the people who own the company, the shareholders. True responsibility is fidelity to one’s own mission, not someone else’s or someone else’s political agenda.
- Exposing the seeking of influence on public officials by corporations, which is the inevitable result of high levels of government spending and intervention in the marketplace.
- Combating practices that undermine the free enterprise system, including corporate giving to groups hostile to a free economy.
Microsoft Director Reid Hoffman Funded Left-Wing Disinformation Campaign
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and Microsoft board member, funded a campaign to target Alabama conservatives with “Russian-inspired tactics” to try to convince them to vote against Republican Roy Moore in a 2017 Senate Special Election. Hoffman made the...
Languishing PayPal’s Woke CEO Leaves Earlier Than Planned
PayPal’s woke CEO Dan Schulman is set to step down earlier than planned after the company’s shares plummeted over 75 percent in just two years. The company had announced in February that he intended to stay on until December 31, but now Schulman's successor, Alex...
Bankman-Fried’s Parents Funneled Funds Through Left-Wing Dark Money Network
Joe Schoffstall of Fox News reports on a lawsuit filed by crypto currency firm FTX against the parents of its founder, Samuel Bankman-Fried. From the article: "The allegations in the lawsuit against Sam Bankman Fried's parents of reaping millions of dollars from their...
Starbucks Doubles Down on China Despite NLPC Proposal
Starbucks announced on Wednesday that Howard Schultz would step down immediately from the Board of Directors as part of a "planned" transition process. Earlier this year at the company's annual meeting, National Legal and Policy Center called upon its fellow...
Benioff’s Hypocrisy: Dirty San Francisco for Thee, Clean for Me
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says San Francisco underwent an amazing transformation ahead of the company's massive Dreamforce conference this week: “When the city of San Francisco wants to look good and look shiny and safe, it can do it,” he told reporters at the...
WE TOLD YOU SO, AGAIN: Officials Echo NLPC’s Warnings to Corporate America on China
Last week "we told you so" about our call for the rejection of the entire Disney board at this year's annual meeting, which went unheeded by our fellow shareholders. We outlined our arguments in a 27-page filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this...
Microsoft’s Reid Hoffman Among Sneaky Elites Trying to Build a ‘Green City’
Possibly because they have turned the heavily populated areas of California (think Silicon Valley and San Francisco) into an unlivable cesspool of crime and homelessness, a cabal of tech and investor billionaires have secretly bought $800 million in farmland in rural...
WE TOLD YOU SO: Blame Disney’s Board for Iger, Chapek Disaster
So now we have two defining, insider-sourced articles about the backstory behind the failed succession at The Walt Disney Company from former (and now current, again) CEO Robert Iger (pictured above) to, and from, successor/predecessor Robert Chapek. The first came in...
Leftist Vox Says Bud Light, Target Boycotts are ‘Kind of Working’
Yesterday leftist website Vox published a piece that stated, to writer Emily Stewart's surprise, "the conservative boycott playbook is kind of working." Citing past efforts that have failed --- like targeting Nike over Colin Kaepernick's kneeling for the national...
NLPC’s Chesser: Lawsuits Mean Shareholders are Fed Up with Disney
https://rumble.com/embed/v3b3wv0/?pub=4 The director of NLPC's Corporate Integrity Project, Paul Chesser, discussed shareholder lawsuits against The Walt Disney Company on Thursday with co-hosts Tony Perkins and Jody Hice on "Washington Watch," a program produced by...
Microsoft Director Reid Hoffman Connected Jeffrey Epstein to Silicon Valley Elite
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and Microsoft board member, introduced convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. He often used prestigious connections to whitewash his reputation after he pled guilty to Florida prostitution...
Nelson Peltz Should Have Kept Fighting for Disney Board Seat
Early this year activist investor Nelson Peltz (pictured above) and his Trian Fund Management took a big stake in The Walt Disney Company, and demanded a seat on the board of directors, accompanied by a threat to run a competitive campaign at the annual meeting in...
NLPC Calls Upon Nike Shareholders to Nix Mark Parker, Tim Cook as Directors
Ahead of the company’s annual meeting next month, National Legal and Policy Center is asking its fellow investors to vote against the re-elections of Mark Parker, the executive chairman, and Tim Cook, the lead independent director, as members of the board at Nike,...
Bob Iger Has a Domestic Disturbance at His (Mouse) House
There is a lot of attention on The Walt Disney Company these days, and quarterly earnings reports draw greater scrutiny than (perhaps) ever, considering the political and "woke" crosswinds --- amid profitability and stock price stumbles --- that the formerly...
S&P Global to Drop ESG Scores from Credit Ratings
S&P Global has decided to drop ESG scores from credit ratings. The Financial Times reports: The debt rating agency has since 2021 published scores from one to five for a company’s exposure to each element of environmental, social and governance risks. ...
NLPC Told Zuckerberg to Release ‘Facebook Files;’ Jim Jordan is Now Doing it For Him
Late last year, when new Twitter owner Elon Musk allowed independent journalists to scour internal communications of the company officials he fired in order to report to the public about their censorship regime in collusion with the federal government, writers like...
NLPC Factors Into Proxy Season with Shareholder Activism
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance monitors trends, and its contributors report on their research findings and advocacy priorities as it pertains to engagement with public companies. Most who write for the forum are left-leaning types who support...
Has Apple Learned Anything After Its Third Straight Quarterly Sales Decline?
Apple, Inc. reported a third straight quarterly sales decline this week. The Wall Street Journal reports: The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant posted sales of $81.8 billion for the quarter ended in July, down 1.4% from the prior year, but largely in line with...
NLPC: Credit Rating Agencies Force-Feed ESG into Corporations’ Scores
Today at RealClearMarkets, NLPC Corporate Integrity Project associate director Luke Perlot writes that the major ratings agencies are trafficking in scores for Environmental, Social and Governance investment priorities into their overall credit scores for...
Starbucks MORE Dependent on China After Rejecting NLPC’s Proposal
In March, Corporate Integrity Project Director Paul Chesser presented a “Communist China Audit” proposal at Starbucks Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting, which asked the company to produce a report that addresses its vulnerabilities related to its business and...
Benioff Pronounces from His Tower: San Francisco’s Little People Must Adapt
In what comes across as a desperate plea for help, a San Francisco art gallery owner, Collier Gwin, writes in the Wall Street Journal today about his experience with a mentally ill homeless woman who repeatedly defiled his place of business, until he lost his cool and...