Exxon Mobil Shaken Down by NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli

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GoodFellasThe Comptroller of the State of New York, Thomas DiNapoli, is the sole person in charge of The New York State Common Retirement Fund--a fund with $160 billion in it. DiNapoli, or rather the NYS Common Retirement Fund, owns $1.02 billion of Exxon Mobil stock. Unfortunately, DiNapoli is an anti-drilling bully (see our list of MDN articles here). When someone like DiNapoli has you by the short hairs and is pulling, you ask him how high he wants you to jump. That's what's happening to Exxon Mobil. DiNapoli is forcing Exxon Mobil to write a cockamamie report on the so-called hazards of fracking, to be released this September on the Exxon website. So what if the report shows there are no (or very few) actual hazards in fracking? Yeah, right. They don't call people like Tommy DiNapoli a goodfella for nuttin'. Exxon is getting shaken down by a bullying investor that holds a lot of stock. And not just any investor--but a government official to boot. It's sleazy, it's disgusting, and it's New York politics. What do you think Exxon's report on fracking will say?...

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