Patton Boggs is repping Citgo Petroleum, a unit of Venezuela’s national oil company, on the potential impact of U.S. energy policy matters on its operation.
Relations between the US and Venezuela, a major exporter of oil to the US, have soured to the point at which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs voted this month to slap sanctions on officials responsible for alleged human rights abuses by members of president Nicolas Maduro’s government responsible for the crackdown on political protesters.
The acolyte of the decease Hugo Chavez also has been rapped by mostly Republicans for continuing his country’s cozy relationship with Cuba.
Chavez often used Petroleos de Venezuela, Citgo’s owner, to advance his political fortunes at home and abroad.
PB chief Tommy Boggs spearheads Citgo’s team. The DC lobbying powerhouse recently ended a misadventure in the oil patch, agreeing to pay Chevron $15M to settle a long-running legal squabble concerning environmental degradation Ecuador.
Citgo, which in 2007 was the first US refinery criminally charged with violating the Clean Air Act, ended that saga this month with a fine of $2M.
Corpus Christi neighbors of the targeted facility dismissed that award as chump change for Citgo, which reportedly earned $1B from the illegal operation.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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