Comment: With this impending merger, it appears that ES & S–one of the companies linked to vote tampering in recent U.S. elections–will be purchasing the money-losing unit of the better-known Diebold firm. “US Voting Machine Makers’ Merger Nears Approval-WSJ” [Wall Street Journal]; reuters.com; 3/4/2010. But the department will require the combined company to divest a […]
by Georg Mascolo and Juergen DahlkampDer Spiegel Washington’s choice for future US ambassador to Germany has all the makings of a political bombshell. For years, a company owned by the multimillionaire and newly-appointed diplomat William Timken, Jr. has been profiting from anticompetitive tariffs — at the direct expense of German companies. As Washington’s new ambassador […]
by Allison T. HoffmanThe New York Observer Of the 2,509 delegates filling the floor of Madison Square Garden for the Republican convention, few may fit the archetype of the American heartland industrialist as well as W.R. (Tim) Timken, Jr., a fourth-generation steel-man from Canton, Ohio, whose family company is one of the largest manufacturers of […]
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