[W:16]Economic Sanctions are Profitable for tRump Associates

justabubba · Dec 11, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/politics/sanctions-lobbyists-usa.html

... the reception was part of an aggressive $8 million lobbying and public relations campaign that used lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration
... As President Trump’s administration has increasingly turned to sanctions, travel restrictions and tariffs to punish foreign governments as well as people and companies from abroad, targets of those measures have turned for assistance to Washington’s K Street corridor of law, lobbying and public relations firms.
... some of the biggest payments have been going to lobbyists, lawyers and consultants with connections to Mr. Trump or his administration.
... This has been encouraged, they say, by the willingness projected by Mr. Trump and his team to make deals around sanctions and tariffs exemptions.
... after a personal intervention by Mr. Trump, the Commerce Department rescinded sanctions ... through an intense three-month lobbying push that cost $1.4 million.
A $108,500-a-month lobbying campaign has helped ... against an industrial conglomerate owned by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Among the leaders of the lobbying efforts ,,, was Bryan Lanza, a former Trump campaign aide
... Among the other Trump-linked lobbyists who have received big contracts from targets of sanctions and tariffs is Brian Ballard, a top fund-raiser for Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.
His firm signed a $125,000-a-month contract in August 2017 to represent the Turkish-state-owned bank Halkbank... to evade sanctions on Iran. The representation brought Mr. Ballard into discussions with Mr. Giuliani, who represented a gold trader charged in the scheme.
... Mr. Dershowitz is advising Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire who was the target of sanctions
... filings show $360,000 paid by Mer to Adnan Jalil, a former congressional liaison for Mr. Trump’s campaign; $250,000 to the firm of Nancye Miller, the wife of the Trump campaign adviser and former C.I.A. chief R. James Woolsey Jr.; $680,000 to the firm of former Representative Robert L. Livingston, an early Trump endorser; and $598,000 to the firm of Brian Glicklich, who has represented Trump allies such as Breitbart News and Rush Limbaugh.
Mer also agreed to pay $1.25 million to the firm of Robert Stryk, who had worked with Trump campaign officials, to organize the Hay-Adams event and meetings around it for Mr. Kabila’s special envoy to the United States. (Mr. Stryk’s firm, Sonoran Policy Group, also signed a $100,000-a-month contract in August to represent Somalia i.

sanctions have been very good to these lobbyists
each with a significant tie to the President
tRump imposes them and the lobbyists get paid huge money to have them rescinded
what a racket
reminds me of the mob

Hawkeye10 · Dec 11, 2018

Re: Economic Sanctions are Profitable for tRump Associates

Remember that Somalia remains a wreck because it is profitable to a few in power that it continues to be.

justabubba · Dec 11, 2018