A more significant level of undercounting is likely due to a carve-out in the law that allows some highly-paid political operatives to avoid disclosing any of their lobbying activities. For example, ...

What the evidence of this trial did show is lobbying and politics...,” McClain attorney Patrick Cotter said in his closing ...

Last year, for example, Meta Platforms Inc. spent $18.9 million on lobbying while Amazon.com Inc. spent $14.2 million, according to Open Secrets. Airbnb is known to employ political veterans with ...

Amid a flood of executive orders signed Monday, President Trump revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden that set ethics and lobbying rules for appointees. The Biden-era ...

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the largest lobbying firm by revenue in the United States, has yet to terminate its relationship with Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent nearly two weeks after the ...

“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a 5-year ban on lobbying by Executive Branch Officials – and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.

Rice’s cancer research and sustainability goals are hypocritical to its use of a lobbying firm associated with fossil fuel interests, according to a recent report by environmental group F-Minus.

Michael McClain, a longtime confidant of ex-speaker Michael Madigan, was a smart and diligent lobbyist who never agreed to or knew about any bribery scheme, his attorney ...