So far, high-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel isn't saying publicly why he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaign of a state attorney general who's just launched an antitrust probe of Google.
But it's not the first time Thiel has handed cash to an AG who went after Google over monopoly concerns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/15/is-billionaire-vc-peter-thiel-trying-to-break-up-google/