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20080612
 John
McCain -  Rick
Davis - Paul
J Manafort Jr -  Foreign
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York -  2008
Election
"Lawmakers
Seek to Close Foreign Lobbyist Loopholes." ... "Loopholes
that lobbyists for foreign clients sometimes use to keep their activities
under wraps would be closed under legislation that two Democratic senators
are expected to offer on Thursday." ... "“The idea you could lobby an American
citizen and that it would not be disclosed is really very troubling,” [New
York Democratic Senator Charles] Mr. Schumer said in a telephone interview."
... "The issue of foreign lobbying has flared up in the current presidential
campaign because of past dealings abroad by several former lobbyists working
for Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee." ... "For instance,
a lobbying firm owned by Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, has worked
in recent years for a Ukraine politician, Viktor Yanukovich. Both Mr. McCain
and the [Republican President] Bush administration supported the opponent
of Mr. Yanukovich, who had close ties to Vladimir V. Putin, then the president
of Russia and now prime minister." ... "During this time, however, Mr.
Davis’s firm, Davis Manafort, never registered as a lobbyist for Mr. Yanukovich
even though Paul Manafort, Mr. Davis’s business partner, had met with the
United States ambassador in Kiev [Ukraine's capital] on Mr. Yanukovich’s
behalf." ... "In a related development, Mr. McCain may have first become
aware of Davis Manafort’s activities in Ukraine as far back as 2005. At
that time, a staff member at the National Security Council called Mr. McCain’s
Senate office to complain that Mr. Davis’s lobbying firm was undercutting
American foreign policy in Ukraine, said a person with direct knowledge
of the phone call who spoke on condition of anonymity." ... "Such a call
might mean that Mr. McCain has been long aware of Mr. Davis’s foreign clients."
... "The current law governing foreign lobbying, the Foreign Agents Registration
Act, requires those representing a foreign government or foreign officials
in the United States to inform the Department of Justice. The act does
not cover meetings abroad with United States officials." ... "The law was
enacted in the late 1930s in an effort to flush out Nazi propagandists
working in the United States. As a result, several experts have said, the
law is outdated and fails to reflect the current global nature of lobbying.
" -By Barry Meier -NYTimes
20080525
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John
McCain - Rick
Davis -
 Criminal
-  Government
- Money
- Politics
- Foreign
- Military
-  Satellite
- Imagery
-  Technology
-  Israel
- Ukraine
- Russia
-  Switzerland
-  Arizona
- US
- 2008
Election - "Lobbying
labyrinth in McCain camp." ... "Rick Davis, the manager
of [Arizona Republican] Senator John McCain's [2008 Election] presidential
campaign, is a typical Washington insider in many ways, having long worked
as both a lobbyist and a political operative along the intersection of
politics, policy and money." ... "Take Davis's involvement with one of
his lesser-known lobbying clients, an Israeli company, Imagesat, which
sells satellite imagery. Along with lobbying for it, Davis became a consultant
to a private investment firm that had a financial
stake in it. That connection opened the door for him to get in on the ground
floor of other investments made by the firm, Pegasus Capital Advisors."
... "... Davis's business partner, Paul Manafort
[of the Davis Manafort lobbying firm], has met with the United States ambassador
in Ukraine, a time when he was advising Viktor Yanukovich, that country's
onetime prime minister, a State Department official said. Yanukovich's
party was opposed by both the [Republican President] Bush administration
and McCain because it was closely tied to Vladimir Putin [Russia's former
President]." ... "Davis Manafort received
$120,000 from late 2004 to mid-2005 to lobby for Imagesat on both defense
and domestic security issues. Davis and Christian Ferry, now McCain's
deputy campaign manager, were the two lobbyists on the project, the records
show." ... "Along with his work as a lobbyist, Davis at the time was also
drawing a salary as the part-time president of the Reform Institute, a
Washington group that McCain helped found to reduce "the influence of special
interests" in politics and government." ... "In November 2005, Pegasus
bought a stake in a company called Traxys, which trades in industrial metals."
... "In January 2006, just two months later, the subject of metals trading
came up in association with a social meeting Davis helped arrange near
Davos, Switzerland. At that meeting, first reported by The Washington Post,
McCain met the Russian aluminum magnate, Oleg Deripaska, who has been barred
from entering the United States apparently because of alleged criminal
ties." (1, 2)
-By Barry Meier with contributions by Kate Zernike
and Andrew E. Kramer -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
20080511
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John
McCain - Rick
Davis -
 Myanmar
[Burma] - Military
- Money
- Politics
- DCI
Group - US
- 2008
Election - "A
Second McCain Aide Resigns." ... "Doug Davenport,
the [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's] regional
campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying
practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar [Burma] in 2002." ... ""Doug
has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," Jill Hazelbaker,
McCain's communications director, wrote in a e-mail." ... "He joins former
DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention
CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent
Myanmar's ruling junta." ... "Goodyear and Davenport were recruited by
McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who has been accused by some current
and former McCain advisers of take insufficient care of McCain's reformer
brand by appointing lobbyists to key positions. Ironically, as Newsweek
reported, Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after Davis's lobbying
firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to
foreign governments and controversial companies."
-Marc Ambinder -TheAtlantic.com
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