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Amsterdam & Partners will receive a $4M flat fee to push for the removal of US sanctions on Venezuela. The US does not recognize the government of Venezuela.
A&P assumed the work of Foley & Lardner, which resigned the account last month after Florida Senator Rick Scott blasted it for representing the "brutal regime" of Nicolas Maduro.
F&L was in line for a $12.5M flat fee for devising a "narrative and strategy" to help Venezuela remove the sanctions.
The US on March 26 charged Maduro and his associates with narco-terrorism, alleging they have "deployed cocaine as a weapon" to undermine the US, according to attorney general Bill Barr.
The Trump administration is offering a $15K reward for the capture or conviction of Maduro.
In a TV address, Maduro blasted Trump as a "racist cowboy" who "manages international relations like a New York mafia extortion artist you once were as a real estate boss.”
A&P's contract, which runs through December, is with Venezuela's attorney general Reinaldo Munoz Pedroza, who was not named in the US indictment.
Patriot Strategies has signed on to provide crisis and targeted communications, strategic planning and PR services to the Embassy of Peru.
Robert Booker Baer, who worked as a CIA case officer for more than 20 years, is advising Ukraine. His memoir served as the basis of the 2005 film, "Syriana" that featured George Clooney.
The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Tourism has hired Patino, Brewster & Partners for crisis communications and brand management consulting.
Mercury Public Affairs has picked up a one-year agreement to handle strategic communications, media relations, digital services and government relations duties for the Libyan National Oil Company.
Norm Coleman, who was a Republican Senator for Minnesota, is repping the London-based Victor Pinchuk Foundation as it works to stage an exhibit in the US Capitol on Russian war crimes against Ukraine.
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