The Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube was involved in a campaign to discredit NGOs ahead of Hungary’s April election, according to a former Black Cube employee and a person with knowledge of the company’s inner workings. Between December 2017 and March 2018, Hungarian NGOs and individuals connected to American-Hungarian businessman George Soros were contacted […]
The Decline and Fall of General Electric, the Poster Child of Obamanomics…
Sometimes we look back a decade or so and reconsider our word choice. For instance, I used to call General Electric — with its heavy lobbying, its intimate ties to the White House, all its bets on green energy, on embryonic stem cells, on Obamacare, on industrial policy — the “for-profit arm of the Obama […]
Google for the First Time Outspent Every Other Company to Influence Washington in 2017…
Google for the first time spent more than any other company in 2017 to influence Washington, highlighting both the sprawling reach of the country’s thriving tech industry and the rising concern by regulators and lawmakers of its ascendance. All told, the search giant broke its own record by allocating more than $18 million to lobby […]
Podesta Group CEO Quits to Start Her Own Lobbying Firm…
Kimberley Fritts, the longtime chief executive of the Podesta Group, is leaving the firm to start her own lobbying shop, according to three Podesta Group staffers. Tony Podesta, the firm’s founder, tapped Fritts as his successor when he announced he’d step down as chairman last week, hours after an indictment was unsealed, charging Paul Manafort […]
The Boogie-Woogie Podesta Boys of ‘Company B’…
In 1988, two enterprising brothers had an idea: Having served as aides for Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates, the brothers would launch their own Washington lobbying firm. Their knowledge of the process and their connections to top Democratic policymakers would be of immense value to their clients, and thus very enriching to the brothers. Podesta […]
Podesta’s Downfall Sent Shock Waves Through K Street…
Tony Podesta Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Tucker [VIDEO]
Tony Podesta Resignation Follows String of Foreign Lobbying Disclosure Violations…
McCain and the Trump-Russia Dossier: What Did He Know, and When?…
Did John McCain and a controversial D.C. lobbying group conspire to get the infamous “pee dossier” into the hands of the press? A lawsuit making its way through court in the UK hopes to determine just what role the senator and his associates had in making the lurid dossier public. New filings in the lawsuit, […]
Saudi Cash Is Sending Veterans on LUXURY Trips to Washington to Oppose 9/11 Law…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is paying at least one large public relations firm in Washington, D.C. to recruit American military veterans who will agree to visit Capitol Hill to tell members of Congress — in person — that they oppose a new federal law allowing civil lawsuits against state sponsors of terrorism…