By Kevin McCauley
Gerson Global Strategic Advisors, which received $1M from Morocco in March, for a campaign to promote investment and the “great strides” that the northern Africa country has made toward democratization has parceled out $270K of that booty for PA/PR support, according to its Justice Dept. filing.
Davis Manafort Inc. collected $100K of that cash. That firm is headed by Rick Davis, who was national campaign manager for the McCain/Palin presidential ticket, and Paul Manafort, a founding member of Republican lobbying powerhouse Black Manafort Stone & Kelly, which is now part of WPP’s Prime Policy Group.
Brown Lord James, the firm of former Beatles manager Peter Brown, received a payment of $43K for its work.
Media Tech Capital Partners earned a $30K fee. Porter Bibb, a former investment banker, Newsweek White House correspondent, Rolling Stone’s first publisher, corporate development director at the New York Times Co., and Ted Turner biographer, heads that operation.
A current focus of Gerson is to create awareness of Morocco’s Nov. 25 parliamentary elections among think tanks and government officials in London, New York and Washington.
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