Day: March 5, 2009

PMA Group Update

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 5, 2009
Categories In Courts & Cases

Here’s the latest on The PMA Group controversy from The Post. Some Democrats suggested that PMA’s leaders, who have won hundreds of millions of dollars for their clients in congressional earmarks, may be guilty of a straw donor system for political contributions — but that the clients themselves could still be worthy of the roughly […]

“Mr. Smith Stays in Washington”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 5, 2009
Categories In LDA

That’s the title of this Oregonian story on former Senator Smith’s decision to join Covington as a senior advisor. Smith, it should be said, is not registering as a lobbyist. In fact, he is barred from lobbying his former colleagues for a period of two years. But the registered lobbyists are just the tip of […]