By Rob Lenihan Ride sharing giant’s growth tied to lobbying, influence pedaling, secret meetings and capitalizing on threats against its drivers to evoke sympathy. Uber (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies Inc. Report become a global phenomenon at the heart of the so-called gig economy, through innovative software, reimagining how people wanted to work and changing how the world thought about transportation. Or so we were told. A new investigation based on the leak of internal company documents tells a far different story, however. The “Uber Files,” report is a global investigation into a trove of 1…