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Lighthouse Strategies, which was formed this month by Congressional staffer Sam Kuebler, is providing government relations support for the Embassy of Qatar.
He has worked for four Republican members of Congress, most recently serving as legislative director for Maria Elvira Salazar of Miami.
His representation comes as president Trump visits the Gulf State amid reports that he may receive a “gift” of a $400M luxury jet from the Qataris.
Democrats called for a probe into the so-called gift of a “palace-in-the-sky.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) asked the General Accounting Office, acting Pentagon inspector general and the Office of Government Ethics to probe what would be the most expensive gift given to a president by a foreign government.
He also wants reforms to ban conversion of foreign gifts into private property by current or former presidents.
Lighthouse Strategies, which serves as a subcontractor to the Bachner Group on the Qatar effort, receives a $15K monthly retainer.
Its contract went into effect May 1 and runs through December 31.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
Bethesda-based Tricuro has signed on South Korea for strategic communications support, messaging development, and media outreach related to US-Korea economic relations.
