Martha Coakley on Corporations

Wrote op-ed advocating for bank consumer protection agency

The death wouldn't be a public execution. Instead, the Senate Banking Committee would propose a financial reform bill with no consumer agency. No one would ever know exactly who had killed it, or why. The lobbyists bore down. Plan A: Kill the agency. Plan B: Maim it so it won't interfere with the big banks' business plans.

Martha Coakley and I wrote an op-ed piece in the New Republic, strongly advocating for a new agency. She was always ready to speak up on behalf of the new agency [which became the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, headed by Elizabeth Warren]. [The article was entitled, "The Right Way to Regulate", New Republic, November 18, 2009.

Don't take business for granted; both small and large

Pushed anti-trust rules against Google and Yahoo

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley issued the following statement regarding the announcement: "We are pleased that Google has announced that it has terminated its search advertising agreement with Yahoo. Our Antitrust Division worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and other states in an extensive investigation of this agreement. We believed that the agreement would have harmed competition in a critical and growing internet market and our office was prepared to file suit with the DOJ to block the agreement."