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Aides to President Barack Obama used personal email accounts to contact   pharmaceutical companies and deliberately scheduled meetings in coffee shops   away from the White House in order to skirt disclosure rules, according to a   Congressional report on Wednesday.

Among the most damaging findings are emails from Jim Messina – the former   White House deputy chief of staff who now manages the president’s   re-election campaign – to a drugs lobbyist in the days before Mr Obama’s   health care reforms passed Congress in 2010.

In an email from his personal account, Mr Messina promised “I will roll   [Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi] for the 4 billion” needed to fund   expansion of health care coverage. Mr Messina also promised the lobbyist he   would deal with a reporter who had been questioning the White House’s links   with the pharmaceutical industry.

The report by the Republican-controlled oversight and investigations   sub-committee also contained details of a proposed meeting between Jeffrey   Smith, one of the president’s science advisers, and an executive from a   technology company.

Mr Smith suggested meeting at a Caribou Coffee near the White House,   explaining that meeting in his office would mean “you’d appear on an   official WH Visitor List which maybe not [what] you want at this stage”.

for full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/democrats/9445120/White-House-officials-caught-out-with-lobbyists.html