Word: donsanto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employed by a school's office of government and community relations and makes regular trips to Washington, one purpose of which is to influence legislation, that man would appear to be a lobbyist."--Craig Donsanto, attorney, Criminal Division, Department of Justice...
Whatever the frequency of visits or opinions of Mooney. Thompson and Donsanto, both Daly and Schmidt have some arguments against the lobbyist label. Among them is what they claim to be primarily a listening role at the nation's capital...
...Donsanto, the Justice Department attorney who specializes in lobby law, has different views. To him, "If someone travels to Washington on a regular basis to lobby--even if it's only a part-time thing--it doesn't matter, he's still covered by the law." Donsanto admitted, however, that the law had numerous problems in interpretation and that prosecutions for its widly flouted registration and reporting clauses had been few. "It's an abominable statute he said. "Most of the people we find who aren't registered or making quarterly reports don't think the law applies to them...