Google has hired Mark Isakowitz, Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s chief of staff, to be its chief lobbyist in Washington, D.C., a person familiar with the matter said.
The high-profile hire comes at a time when Google is under immense pressure in Washington, with an antitrust probe at the Department of Justice, a congressional inquiry into competition in the digital sector and a sweeping look into its advertising practices by state attorneys general.
