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| Mark Paoletta |
Project Veritas is using Mark Paoletta, ex-counsel to vice president Mike Pence, to inform members of Congress of the FBI Nov. 6 raid of the Mamaroneck home of its founder & conservative activist James O’Keefe.
The FBI launched the effort to seek information about the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Biden’s daughter, Ashley.
Project Veritas has said it received a copy of the diary last year but has not published any of its contents.
Journalist groups have condemned the FBI’s action as a gross violation of the First Amendment.
A Manhattan federal judge on Dec. 7 rejected a bid by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to force the FBI to divulge the legal reasoning behind the raid.
Paoletta, who also was chief counsel for oversight & investigations for the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is with the firm of Schaerr Jaffe.
Knob Petroleum, which is based in Panama City, has retained Ballard Partners to explore opportunities in Venezuela.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has signed to represent Eastern Air Holdings, which operates deportation flights for Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
Ballard Partners has lined up Australia’s Energy Transition Minerals company, an explorer and developer of rare earths minerals opportunities. It touts its Greenland property as having the potential to become the biggest rare earths producer in the western world.
Abbvie has retained Trump-connected Winston-Salem-based Checkmate Government Relations for healthcare matters and issues related to the life sciences sector.
Netflix has retained Bloom Strategic Counsel for regulatory matters regarding its proposed $83B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
