The New York Times has a report on how Anthony Weiner, the former congressman from New York who is now considering a run for mayor, is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year: "Mr. Weiner said he had reached out to federal officials at the Energy and Agriculture Departments, as well as members of Congress, on behalf of his clients. But he insisted that the work did not meet the legal definition of lobbying, which he said his contracts made clear he would not do."
His clients include an electronic medical records provider, a law firm trying to get the FCC to relax its restrictions on major foreign ownership of broadcast media, and a biofuel company.
