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To: saywhatagain

The name above the Clinton Initiative:

BKSH & Associates (Per Wiki)

The firm came into being in 1996 through the merger of D.C. firms Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly (BMSK or Black, Manafort) and Gold & Liebengood by Martin B. Gold. BMSK, was established in 1980 as a Washington, DC-based lobbying firm by principals Paul Manafort, Charles R. Black Jr., Roger J. Stone and Peter G. Kelly.[2][3][4]

In 1981, the Manafort, Black, and Stone “started a separate lobbying company by the same name”. Democrat Peter Kelly and “legendary GOP adviser” Lee Atwater joined them “in subsequent years”.[5] Scruggs was with them from 1998-2004.


4 posted on 03/11/2018 6:07:44 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

The swamp is deep...

Manafort & Black

“McCain Adviser’s Work As Lobbyist”
Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain’s man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator from Arizona, to the presidency this November.

But for half a decade in the 1980s, Black was also Jonas Savimbi’s man in the capital city. His lobbying firm received millions from the brutal Angolan guerrilla leader and took advantage of Black’s contacts in Congress and the White House.

Justice Department records that Black’s firm submitted under the Foreign Agents Registration Act detail frequent meetings with lawmakers and their staffs and lavish spending by Black and his partners as they attempted to ensure support for Savimbi, whose UNITA movement was fighting the Marxist Angolan government.


5 posted on 03/11/2018 6:11:06 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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