Juul’s internal playbook opens a rare window into influence in Washington

Nicholas Florko at StatNews just published an excellent piece using the newly-released Juul internal documents to describe how the company worked behind the scenes in Washington all the way down to local governments to influence, legislators, the Administration, regulatory agencies, local governments and public opinion generally by campaign contributions, quietly hiring a range of political organizations across the political spectrum.

These activities follow the long-established playbook used by Big Tobacco and other powerful corporations, but the specificity is informative.

None of the people and organizations Juul sought to work with were willing to talk to StatNews.

And there is a lot more to come

The documents were released as part of the North Carolina settlement with Juul and from other settlements and sources. As of now, there are about 280,000 documents available out of the entire universe of about 4 million documents. Additional documents will be released monthly for the next 1-2 years.

So, keep checking back as more material is released.