Facing Antitrust Scrutiny, Google Execs Still Backing Obama

Few can accuse Google's top executives of holding a grudge. Despite facing a possible antitrust lawsuit from the Obama Administration's Federal Trade Commission, Google's leaders are still backing the president when it comes to donations to his reelection effort.

Leading the way is Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who served as an adviser to then-Sen. Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and is now a member of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Schmidt has given $5,000 to the Obama reelection campaign and an additional $30,800 to the Obama Victory Fund, the joint fundraising committee for Obama and the Democratic National Committee, according to Federal Election Commission records. In all, President Barack Obama has received more than $737,000 from Google-related donors -- the president's third biggest contributor, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Microsoft-related contributors are the second biggest donors to Obama, giving more than $761,000, according to the center's data.