• Anticorruption issues, anti-money laundering issues: Spoke about anticorruption and anti-money laundering issues Anticorruption issues, anti-money laundering issues: Urging Treasury to expand and make permanent Geographic Targeting Orders program; to adopt due diligence/know-your-customer requirements for investment advisers and other professional service providers; and to issue a strong rule implementing the Corporate Transparency Act Funding for Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: Advocated for significant increase in funding for FinCEN Combatting Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act of 2022 (S.3697): Updates counterfeiting laws to prohibit state-of-the-art counterfeiting methods, increases the penalties for bulk cash smuggling, and ensures that money laundering laws apply to hawalas and other informal value transfer systems used by drug traffickers and terrorists ENABLERS Act (H.R. 5525): Extend anti-money laundering requirements to those who serve as gatekeepers to the U.S. financial system Kleptocrat Liability for Excessive Property Transactions and Ownership Act: Provides law enforcement with the information required to track down klepocrats luxury assets in the U.S. financial system Money laundering in real estate ANPRM comment: https://us.transparency.org/resource/ti-us-comment-on-anprm-for-real-estate-sector-reporting-requirements-to-curb-illicit-finance/ NPRM comment regarding the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act: https://us.transparency.org/resource/ti-us-cta-nprm/ Letter (Sens. Warren & Whitehouse) to Treasury Dept. and SEC re: AML rules for investment advisers: Advised on letter: https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/letters/warren-whitehouse-call-on-treasury-sec-to-close-loophole-exempting-the-11-trillion-private-investment-industry-from-anti-money-laundering-and-anti-terrorism-requirements
• Freedom to Vote Act (S. 2747): To expand ballot access, regulate money in politics, and stregthen ethics rules, among other pro-democracy proposals Bill to prevent foreign corruptive influence (bill not yet introduced): Working with multiple offices' staff on draft bill H.R. 3389, Congressional and Executive Foreign Lobbying Ban Act: Spoke about foreign corruptive influence H.R. 1127, Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our Elections Act: Spoke about foreign corruptive influence Bill to prevent abuse of the judicial process to intimidate those exercising their First Amendment rights (bill not yet introduced): Spoke with office about draft bill Bill to prevent foreign corruptive influence by kleptocratic governments: Working with multiple offices on draft bill
• Anticorruption issues, anti-money laundering issues: Spoke about Summit for Democracy and anticorruption issues Anticorruption issues: Spoke about Summit for Democracy, Summit of the Americas, International Anticorruption Conference, and anticorruption issues Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy Act (S. 2010, H.R. 3781): To require the Department of Justice to publish and regularly update its website with an accounting of property that is forfeited to the United States as a result of foreign government corruption Combating Global Corruption Act (H.R. 4322, S. 14): Creates a country-by-country tiered reporting requirement based on compliance with anti-corruption norms and commitments. Those countries in the lowest tier will have their leadership considered for Global Magnitsky Act sanctions Foreign Corruption Accountability Act (H.R. 3887): Authorizes visa bans on foreign persons who use state power to engage in acts of corruption against any private persons Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (H.R. 3887): Criminalizes the demand side of foreign bribery The Global Magnitsky Act reauthorization (H.R.7108 PNTR): Reauthorizes the Global Magnitsky Act of 2016 Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Reauthorization Act (S.93): Permanently authorizes the President to impose economic sanctions on, and deny entry into the United States to, foreign individuals or entities identified as engaging in corruption or human rights violations America COMPETES Act (H.R. 4521): Four anticorruption provisions in the larger bill, which concerns U.S. scientific research, education, manufacturing, and technological advancement related to economic and technological competition with China
• The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 (HR 2471): Urging members to ensure that omnibus bill does not include language stopping the SEC from requiring corporations to disclose their political activity
• Urging the Senate to vote on the three nominees for the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) who have been approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: Sign-on letters circulated by the Make It Safe Coalition Urging the Senate to consider and vote on pending nominations to all three vacancies on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB): Sign-on letter circulated by Government Accountability Project Urging the DOJ to issue a memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act: Sign-on letter circulated by Open the Government Calling on the House Admin Committee to draft legislation banning members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks, bonds, and other similar securities: Sign-on letter circulated by Citizens for Ethics in Washington The Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act (S. 3494): Sign-on letter circulated by the Project on Government Oversight Section 3 of the Judiciary Accountability Act of 2021 (H.R. 4827): Sign-on letter circulated by the Project on Government Oversight Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act (S. 3905): To prevent organizational conflicts of interest in Federal acquisition
• S. 2060, Foreign Funding Accountability Act: Spoke about foreign corruptive influence H.R. 1970,Thinktank and Nonprofit Foreign Influence Disclosure Act: Spoke about foreign corruptive influence

Duration: March 4, 2019 to April 1, 2022

General Issues: Banking, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Foreign Relations, Budget/Appropriations, Government Issues, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Immigration, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Disaster Planning/Emergencies, Defense, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities

Spending: about $207,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2019: Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office, State - Dept of (DOS), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Natl Economic Council (NEC)