Eric Schmidt
I think our digging on ES should go back to election days and beyond when Obama admin "set their stage" with Google.
Here's what I turned up in a brief dig:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/obamas-bromance-googles-eric-schmidt-out-hand/352130/
http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-tried-to-get-google-to-hide-his-political-donation-in-search-results-2011-4?op=1
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9723401/Eric-Schmidt-declines-Obama-cabinet-post.html
http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/obama-cuba-internet-google/