An older but still pertinent article…

Common Cause-NY Wants Anti-Corruption Commission to Review Big Telecom’s Political Contributions

It certainly goes a way towards explaining why then Energy Committee chair Senator George Maziarz walked out 5 minutes into a 2011 briefing on wireless health hazards given to a group of Senate majority leaders, telling the presenter “You would get further if you didn’t talk about health.  Nobody wants to hear it.”