Word: lobbyist
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Knight, working as the firm's lobbyist, smoothed the way for the donations, the contracts and an unusual personal visits to the firm's headquarters by Gore himself. The little-known Knight probe, under way for some time, could draw the Vice President deeper into a scandal that has its roots in Bill Clinton's last election but may have its greatest impact on Al Gore's next. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, Gore's approval rate dipped to 51%, the lowest level since March. If the next presidential election were held today, pitting Gore against Texas Governor George...
...came off his stint as talent scout for the new Administration. Right away the company had big plans for him to help it pull the right levers with the government, according to an internal Molten memo. But Knight's role was larger than that of the traditional lobbyist, more like that of a corporate impresario. When the company needed credibility to build early capital, Knight arranged for Grum-bly of the Energy Department to attend the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, at which he touted the firm and suggested it could qualify for up to $200 million in grants from...
...York, is a major donor to the Democratic Party: he, his wife and one of his firms have given $90,000 since late 1995. The White House invited Lau to two pre-election fund raisers with Clinton in Washington (Nastos was invited to one). Lau's D.C. lobbyist was once a U.S. trade negotiator who gained entree to Hayes' confidential briefings, once reserved for U.S. industry...
...unaware" that in 1995 Lau, his companies and a business associate paid $3 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging them with making false declarations to Customs. Hayes says she knows nothing of Lau's links to the Democratic Party. Of her apparently brief sessions with Lau and his lobbyist this year and last in San Francisco and Beijing, she simply says, "Stephen offered his assistance...
...return to power, Thompson pitched in by calling JOHN SUNUNU, chief of staff for the Bush White House, to discuss Aristide's case. TOM DAFFRON, Thompson's chief of staff, says there is absolutely, totally, nothing similar between foreign governments seeking to influence U.S. policy by hiring a lobbyist and foreign governments seeking to influence U.S. policy by giving campaign contributions. "One's legal, and the other is illegal," he explains...