By Kevin McCauley
Patton Boggs has registered Dubai-based News Group International, which sources, creates, distributes, monitors and analyses news broadcast/print and social media content across 30 nations in the Middle East and North Africa, as a client of the firm.
According to PB’s federal filing, it will deal with “issues related to the intelligence community’s use of media monitoring.”
PB’s five-member lobbying team is skewed toward military experience. It includes Major General Mike Nardotti. He served for nearly 40 years as soldier and lawyer, rising to the Judge Advocate General Post—the highest lawyer position in the Army.
Nardotti is assisted by retired Marine Corps Col. John Garrett, who has worked on reconstruction projects in Iraq and Afghanistan and Jack Deschauer, who was director of Senate affairs for the Dept. of Defense.
Founded in 2002, NGI has more than 300 staffers. |