A week later, congressional lawmakers rebuked the company for failing to send one of its top executives to testify at a hearing alongside Facebook and Twitter.
Coles, who attended the Strasbourg hearing alongside the family, said that the failure to bring criminal prosecutions against police officers responsible for the shooting raises questions about how the state and its agents are held to account for killing its citizens.
In fact, the company was so instrumental in shaping the utility legislation that its top lobbyist, the former delegate Jack Rust, testified during a hearing alongside the patron of the bill instead of during the time set aside for supporters and opponents.
Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will appear in the first of a three-panel hearing, alongside Obama-era secretary Jeh Johnson, who oversaw the department during the 2016 election.
In vetoing the measure, Cuomo blocked new standards that would limit public defense attorneys' caseloads and require counsel at a defendant's first hearing, alongside more reform.
Campbell, who said she learned of Cook's appointment through The Trace's inquiry, testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing alongside Cook in 2015.
