Turkey’s oldest business council announced on Twitter Friday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has agreed to participate in a webinar next week touting the country’s potential as a trading alternative to China. The event is a major win for the Turkey-US Business Council (TAIK): Graham not only sits on key[Read More…]
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Canadian cannabis grower ramps up lobbying in search of US market high
A leading Canadian cannabis company has hired a second lobbying firm as it looks to the bountiful US market to try to right its struggling business. Canopy Growth Corporation of Smith Falls, Ontario, has hired Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies effective May 1 to lobby on “cannabis and hemp agricultural issues”[Read More…]
Daily Digest for Thursday, June 11
Welcome to Foreign Lobby Report’s end-of-the-day roundup, where you’ll find all our latest stories plus links to related Washington news. TOP STORY Religious discrimination charge against Kuwait falls flat with State Department A massive lobbying campaign to paint Kuwait as a religious rights abuser has failed to gain traction with[Read More…]
Religious discrimination charge against Kuwait falls flat with State Department
A massive lobbying campaign to paint Kuwait as a religious rights abuser has failed to gain traction with the Donald Trump administration. Over the past year, Kuwaiti investment firm KGL Investment has spent more than $1.5 million to pressure the Gulf country to drop embezzlement charges against former KGL Investment[Read More…]
Former telecomms agency chief registers to lobby for Luxembourg satellite giant in $15 billion 5G spectrum shakeup
The former head of the US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has registered to lobby on a massive shakeup of the US electromagnetic spectrum on behalf of the US subsidiary of Luxembourg satellite giant SES SA months after he started advising the company. David Redl’s consulting firm, Salt Point Strategies, registered to lobby for[Read More…]
Daily Digest for Wednesday, June 10
Welcome to Foreign Lobby Report’s end-of-the-day roundup, where you’ll find all our latest stories plus links to related Washington news. TOP STORY The Gambia seeks US court order for Facebook documents in Rohingya rights crusade against Myanmar The Gambia is taking its international human rights crusade against Myanmar to the[Read More…]
The Gambia seeks US court order for Facebook documents in Rohingya rights crusade against Myanmar
The Gambia is taking its international human rights crusade against Myanmar to the United States with a legal push to force Facebook to turn over the contents of accounts linked to the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya. Lawyers for the tiny west African nation this week asked the US District Court[Read More…]
Exiled Kremlin critic’s human rights group hires US lobbyist as Putin eyes term extension
The human rights organization founded by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has hired a former aide to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny as a US lobbyist. Virginia-based consulting firm VA Solutions was retained by London-based Human Rights Project Management to lobby on “human rights, democracy, and rule of law internationally.” The[Read More…]
Daily Digest for Tuesday, June 9
Welcome to Foreign Lobby Report’s end-of-the-day roundup, where you’ll find all our latest stories plus links to related Washington news. TOP STORY Puerto Rico ex-governor lobbies for Dominican presidential candidate accused of graft The presidential candidate for the Dominican Republic’s ruling party has retained Washington law firm Steptoe and Johnson to help[Read More…]
Former Michigan GOP chair wrangled state Republicans for Qatar
The former head of the Michigan Republican Party helped wrangle GOP state lawmakers for a Qatari government-funded trip to the Gulf emirate last year, new lobbying filings reveal. Saulius “Saul” Anuzis’ Coast to Coast Strategies disclosed its consulting work on behalf of the Qatar-America Institute this week after the Department of[Read More…]