NEW FOREIGN AGENT REGISTRATIONS: Senators-turned-lobbyists JOHN BREAUX (D-La.) TRENT LOTT (R-Miss.) register with @TheJusticeDept as lobbyists representing the government of Alberta, Canada. https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6891-Short-Form-20201113-2.pdf https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6891-Short-Form-20201113-6.pdf
SAUDI ARABIA signs new husband-&-wife lobbying team for $25k/month -- former TRENT LOTT aide FREDERICK A. BAIRD ( @trippbaird) & JENNIFER J. BAIRD. https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6889-Exhibit-AB-20201113-1.pdf
The lobbying firm BARNES & THORNBURG, which represents Ethiopia & Hungary, has hired FRANK MERMOUD.
(Mermoud helped run the foreign ambassador program at the 2016 GOP convention through which then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak met with JEFF SESSIONS.) https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6594-Supplemental-Statement-20201111-4.pdf
(Mermoud helped run the foreign ambassador program at the 2016 GOP convention through which then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak met with JEFF SESSIONS.) https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6594-Supplemental-Statement-20201111-4.pdf
Former DNC Finance Director PAUL DiNINO was hired last week to lobby for the Moroccan government-owned phosphate company OCP, which has been accused of repressing Sahrawi Arabs.
(OCP has been a major donor to the @ClintonFdn.) https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6408-Exhibit-AB-20201112-11.pdf https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clintons-morocco-117979
(OCP has been a major donor to the @ClintonFdn.) https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6408-Exhibit-AB-20201112-11.pdf https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clintons-morocco-117979