On November 30, 2012, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina met with the White House chief-of-staff, Pete Rouse, at 1:30 pm.xix An hour later, the DNC’s Patrick Gaspard met with Rousexx, and finally at 3:30 pm Google’s Schmidt met alone with Rouse.xxi
In other words: In the course of three hours, Obama’s chief-of-staff met back-to-back with the three people most intimately involved with his re-election victory. Schmidt’s meeting came even as Google was engaged in settlement negotiations with the government. Was the issue raised?
A month later, the FTC announced it was ending its antitrust probe, without filing any major charges.
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/eric-schmidt-obamas-chief-corporate-ally