Possible stretch to tie Ed Gillespie to muh Russia via Haley Barbour et al…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gillespie
In 1997, Gillespie joined the lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, and advised Senate Republicans during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.[13]
In 2000, Gillespie founded the lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates with Jack Quinn, and within a year had an income of $8.5 million and was 11th on Fortune's list of the most powerful lobbying firms in the US.[13] One of the firm's clients was Enron, which paid it $1,225,000, including $700,000 to lobby the Department of Energy and the Executive Office of the President to resist efforts to re-regulate the western electricity market during the California Electricity Crisis.[14][13][15] Gillespie has said that he was unaware of Enron's deceptive accounting practices.[16] By the end of 2002, Quinn Gillespie & Associates had received $27.4 million in lobbying fees.[17]
In 2007, Quinn Gillespie & Associates represented more than 100 clients.[16] The firm lobbied on behalf of AT&T, Bank of America, and Microsoft in the years 2001-2007, earning more than $3.2 million.[16] In 2016, the firm reported $17.2 million in revenue from federal lobbying.[16] The firm pitched to potential clients that Gillespie, due to his involvement with the White House and association with individuals in power, could leverage those relationships to benefit clients.[16]
In 2016, Gillespie lobbied on behalf of the health insurance company Anthem, as the nation's second-largest insurance firm tried to merge with third-largest insurance firm Cigna.[16] A federal judge blocked the mergers, citing insurance regulators who said the merger would raise costs and reduce competition in the health insurance market.[16]
Gillespie shut down his lobbying firm Ed Gillespie Strategies shortly before launching his campaign for governor in January 2017.[16]
The conservative government watchdog Judicial Watch said that Gillespie's ties to corporations may pose a conflict of interest for him as governor, and that this is a "nonpartisan concern".[16] Gillespie's former clients Anthem, AT&T, Microsoft, and Bank of America have ongoing interests in the state of Virginia, and these corporations or their top executives have donated to the Gillespie 2017 campaign.[16] Gillespie voluntarily released the list of his clients, disclosing more than is required by state law.[16]
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https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/ukraine-hired-gop-firm-obstructed-mueller-investigation.html
The Ukrainian government hired Haley Barbour, former Republican National Committee chairman and founding partner of BGR Group, to lobby in the United States just after Trump was elected, according to foreign lobbying registration documents filed with the Justice Department. Ed Rogers, the chairman of BGR, was hired for the lobbying work, too. The firm has ties to this White House: The Trump transition team held meetings with lobbyists at BGR Group’s offices, according to the Washington Post. And Rogers is “as inner circle Jeff Sessions as they come,” a source with knowledge of their relationship told me on condition of anonymity, referring to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (Both men are from Alabama.) BGR also worked with Corey Lewandowski.