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ThirdCircle
(for Morocco)
Hired: Jan. 2018
2018 fees: $240,000
NEW Supplemental
(Nov. 1, 2019 – April 30, 2020)
Morocco paid lobbying firm ThirdCircle $244,000 in the six-month period ending April 30. For Morocco, ThirdCircle disclosed meetings with a House Foreign Affairs Committee staffer and aide to Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., on Feb. 3.
Glover Park Group
JPC Strategies subcontractor
(for Morocco)
Hired: May 2020
Contract: $120,000/year
NEW Contract
Morocco has brought on the Glover Park Group as a JPC Strategies (doing business as Gentium Strategies) subcontractor nearly nine months after the firm stopped working for the North African nation. Senior Vice President Tod Preston, a former aide to outgoing House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, is the sole registered foreign agent on the one-year, $120,000 account, which began May 8. In September, Gentium brought on former GPG managing director Andrew King through a $20,000-per-month contract with his Neale Creek firm.
SGR Government Affairs and Lobbying
JPC Strategies subcontractor
(for Morocco)
Hired: Jan. 2018
2018 fees: $180,000
NEW Supplemental
(Oct. 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020)
In the six-month period ending March 31, SGR Government Relations & Lobbying was paid $90,000 by Morocco (via JPC Strategies). Lobbyists from the firm met with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (Nov. 13) and four journalists for Morocco.
Neale Creek
JPC Strategies subcontractor
(for Morocco via JPC Strategies)
Hired: Sept. 2019
Contract: $20,000/month
NEW Supplemental
(Oct. 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020)
Neale Creek, whose sole lobbyist is former Glover Park Group lobbyist Andrew King, was paid $120,000 by Morocco in the six-month period ending March 31. King, a former aide to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., reached out to Donald Trump administration officials for Morocco, meeting with Paul Teller, then-special assistant to Trump in the Office of Legislative Affairs who now works for Vice President Mike Pence, on Oct. 17; and then-deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates, who now works for Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, on Nov. 8. For Morocco, King also met with Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., on Sept. 18; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Sept. 23; and then-Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who is currently Trump’s chief of staff, on Jan. 9.
JPC Strategies
(for Morocco)
Hired: Jan. 2018
2018 fees: $900,000
NEW Supplemental
(Aug. 1, 2019 – Jan. 31, 2019)
Meetings: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.
Morocco paid JPC Strategies $455,000 in the six months through January. The firm in turn disbursed $330,000 to its subcontractors on the account: $120,000 to Iron Bridge Strategies, $100,000 to Neale Creek, $90,000 to SGR Government Relations and Lobbying and $20,000 to the Glover Park Group (that last account was terminated Aug. 27). During that time, the firm’s founder and sole lobbyist on the account, former Ted Cruz deputy chief of staff James Christoferson, met with the offices of at least 15 House and Senate appropriators in October and November ahead of passage of the FY 2020 spending bill. The bill contains provisions on aid funding for the Moroccan-administered Western Sahara that fuel a rival lobbying campaign by Morocco and Algeria every year. Christoferson also met with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and emailed with then-deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates and special assistant to the president for legislative affairs Paul Teller.
Glover Park Group
JPC Strategies subcontractor
(for Morocco via JPC Strategies)
Hired: Jan. 2018
2018 fees: $200,000
NEW Supplemental
(Aug. 1, 2019 – Jan. 31, 2020)
The Glover Park Group received $20,000 from Morocco in the six-month period ending Jan. 31. The only lobbying activity the firm reported for Morocco were Aug. 26 emails to an aide to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., regarding “US-Morocco relations.”
Iron Bridge Strategies
JPC Strategies subcontractor
(for Morocco via JPC Strategies)
Hired: Jan. 2018
2018 fees: $240,000
NEW Supplemental
(Jan. 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018)
Fees: $120,000
Iron Bridge Strategies received $120,000 from JPC Strategies as a subcontractor to Morocco work in the second half of 2018. The lobbying shop run by former Hill aide Chris Berardini reported eight meetings with Capitol Hill staffers regarding Morocco.