Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Report outlines UAE's 'immensely influential' lobbying in US

The Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative (FITI), a program of the Center for International Policy, analyzed every Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Supplemental  Statement filed in 2018 by organizations working on behalf of clients in the United Arab Emirates. From this analysis we found:
  • 20 different firms served as registered foreign agents in the U.S. for clients in the UAE;
  • Over $20 million in payments from UAE clients to these firms;
  • 3,168 reported political activities done on behalf of the UAE by those firms;
  • UAE foreign agents contacted more than 200 Congressional offices, 18 think tanks, and most mainstream media outlets;
  • Considerable interactions between UAE foreign agents and think tanks funded by the UAE;
  • Nearly $600,000 in campaign contributions from these firms and their registered foreign agents
UAE - bunch of motherfuckers.

Link here.

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