Lobbying Relationship

Client

LightSquared

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Lobbying firm

Palmetto Group

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  • Mobile Satellite Issues, Mobile Broadband Issues
  • Financial Service Appropriations Defense Appropriations

Duration: to

General Issues: Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $900,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2010: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Related Foreign Entities: HGW Holding Company c/o Int'l Fund Services, (Dublin, IRL); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 91%; Master Fund 1 (owns 69.69% of HGW Holding Company c/o (Dublin, IRL); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 64%; Offshore Fund I (owns 66.71% of Master Fund I) c/o Int'l Fund (Dublin, IRL); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 42%

Bills mentioned

S.1573: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2012

Sponsor: Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)

H.R.1540: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Sponsor: Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.)

S.1867: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Sponsor: Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
David Rudd Chief of Staff for Senator Fritz Hollings
John Winburn n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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