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Lobbying client was <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000019533&year=2015" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S. Steel</a>. Deregistered 2015, worked at <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/741004/king-spalding-snags-ex-skadden-int-l-trade-partner" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">King & Spalding LLP</a>.</font></li></ul></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dan lundgren ex AG ~ climate lawsuits, fedsoc</font></div><div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAEQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFSgAMAB6BAgBEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-flex; max-width: 600px; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><div class="ellip" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjAAegQIARAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">California cities suing Big Oil tell investors, courts different ...</a></div></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.57; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.5;">https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article198736969.html</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.57;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.57; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.57;">Feb 7, 2018 - </span>In <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">lawsuits</span>, cities want Big Oil to pay for rising sea levels, even as they tell investors they ... By <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Dan Lungren</span> Special to The Sacramento Bee.</span><div class="TXwUJf" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Missing: <s>spalding</s> | Must include: <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dan+lungren+climate+lawsuit+%22spalding%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0Q5t4CMAB6BAgBEAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(26, 13, 171); cursor: pointer;">spalding</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 27px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFSgAMAF6BAgJEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-flex; max-width: 600px; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><div class="ellip" style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.kslaw.com/people/daniel-lungren&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjABegQICRAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Daniel E. Lungren - King & Spalding</a></div></h3>
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King & <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Spalding</span> Advises Client in U.S. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Climate</span> Change Tort <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Litigation</span>.</span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFSgAMAN6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; font-size: small; line-height: 1.57;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/05/02/hold-government-to-higher-standard-former-ca-ag-says-of-climate-change-lawsuit-controversy/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/05/02/hold-government-to-higher-standard-former-ca-ag-says-of-climate-change-lawsuit-controversy/&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QFjADegQIAhAB" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); 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overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="f" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); line-height: 1.57;">May 2, 2018 - </span>A Texas judge has decided California officials <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">suing</span> the energy industry ... inconsistent claims, says <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">Dan Lungren</span>, California's attorney general ...</span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dfbYBk1kpMMJ:https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/05/02/hold-government-to-higher-standard-former-ca-ag-says-of-climate-change-lawsuit-controversy/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:dfbYBk1kpMMJ:https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/05/02/hold-government-to-higher-standard-former-ca-ag-says-of-climate-change-lawsuit-controversy/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiFtLb80Y_kAhUEb60KHQnVAz0QIDADegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/investigations/trumps-fbi-director-pick-made-his-living-defending-shady-businessmen-just">http://www.alternet.org/investigations/trumps-fbi-director-pick-made-his-living-defending-shady-businessmen-just</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wray, earned $9.2 million last year representing Credit Suisse (see below regarding laundering terrorist money), Wells Fargo and Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor. Reuters obtained Wray’s disclosure. Wray is expected to get even more money when he cashes in his partnership interest in King & Spaulding, the Atlanta-based law firm where he has devoted most of his career to representing top drawer white collar criminal suspects and defendants, not pursuing them.</span>
<strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Questions Senators Should Ask</strong></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues that we think our Senators should examine include:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wray’s Russian client conflicts deserve scrutiny considering Trump’s own Russian connections. As a lawyer at King & Spaulding, the giant Atlanta-based law firm that has been Wray’s home base since the 1990s, he represented Russian companies Gazprom and Rosneft. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/trump-fbi-director-christopher-wray" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Guardian discovered</a> that in January Wray <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20161118122237/http:/www.kslaw.com/people/Christopher-Wray" style="text-decoration-line: none;">deleted a Russia-related line</a> from his King & Spaulding website bio. The deleted language stated that Wray had represented unnamed American “energy company executive in a criminal investigation by Russian authorities.” Why did Wray remove that line?</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wray’s long-standing defense work for big-ticket <a href="https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/christopher-wray-firmly-embedded-corporate-crime-bar/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">white collar criminals,</a>banksters and fraudsters, especially during the period from 2005 to 2017 after he left the Justice Department and rejoined King & Spaulding. Virtually every Justice Department criminal lawyer who moves in and out of the private sector is vulnerable to this “revolving door” criticism. Wray’s choice of clients, however, is especially troubling.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wray’s representation of Credit Suisse in money laundering involving Iran, a major sponsor of terrorist organizations.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What was his role in approving the Bush-era rules for interrogating so-called “non-combatants” and the gathering of metadata on domestic communications by the National Security Agency?</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wray’s involvement in the legal vetting and management of Bush-era interrogation and imprisonment programs while he was a senior Justice Department official from May 2001 to February 2005, especially after he became acting Assistant Attorney General in February 2003, in charge of the Criminal Division.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wray’s “less-than-truthful” answers—according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)—to the Senate Judiciary’s questions back in 2004? These include questions about the murder of a detainee held by the Central Intelligence Agency. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/politics/christopher-wray-bio.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Wray testified</a> that he learned of this from news reports, but documents show he was officially informed long before the news broke.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What of his role as one of those overseeing the Enron Task Force, which has been criticized for prosecutorial excesses, resulting in premature “victories” that were reversed on appeal.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What of Wray’s role in Bridgegate, in which Wray was a defense attorney and “chief custodian of missing cell phones” for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose administration closed George Washington Bridge traffic lanes to punish a mayor who did not support Christie’s election to a second term. Wray’s relationship Christie dates to the early 2000s, when Christie got himself appointed US attorney by becoming a big bundler of campaign contributions for George W. Bush in New Jersey.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></li></ul><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s re-election campaign is benefiting from money — both directly and indirectly — from lawyers and companies that have profited from the state’s prescription drug epidemic.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Prescription drug wholesalers being sued by Morrisey’s office for their role in fueling the state’s ongoing opioid problem have indirectly funded a portion of Morrisey’s re-election efforts.</div><div>
</div><div>Since 2014, McKesson Corp. and Cardinal Health, both defendants in state lawsuits overseen by Morrisey, have donated a total of $50,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has spent more money than any other organization in West Virginia to re-elect Morrisey.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What’s more, at least two lawyers representing drug distributors in the lawsuits have contributed directly to Morrisey’s campaign.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><b>Morrisey also has taken campaign contributions from OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Morrisey is the only candidate in West Virginia, at any level of office, from House of Delegates, to Congress, through the governor’s race, to receive money from Purdue Pharma’s political action committee, which gave him the maximum allowable $1,000 in his uncontested primary election.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He is the only West Virginia candidate to receive money ($1,000) from Mallinckrodt, an Irish pharmaceutical company that produces several opioid products.</span></div><div>
</div><div>On the campaign trail, Morrisey has repeatedly touted his office’s “aggressive” fight against prescription drug abuse, and he has introduced initiatives that he says will significantly curb the number of opioids in West Virginia.</div><div>
</div><div>Morrisey campaign spokeswoman Kayla Berube said Morrisey holds the office and his campaign to the “highest of ethical standards.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>“He has a policy that prohibits intentional solicitation and acceptance of contributions from companies the office is suing,” Berube said.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Del. Don Perdue said Morrisey, a former lobbyist for the prescription drug industry, has “put his office up for sale.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>“Any argument that suggests these type of contributions are innocuous or have no effect defies logic,” said Perdue, a Wayne County Democrat and retired pharmacist.<b> “Coupled with his strong personal ties to the drug industry and the legal gymnastics he has performed to slow down the litigation regarding the distribution of narcotics, it defies belief.”</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Purdue Pharma isn’t a defendant in the state’s lawsuits against drug wholesalers, the complaints allege the distributors shipped an excessive number of oxycodone pills (often sold under Purdue’s OxyContin brand name) to rogue pharmacies in West Virginia. The companies distribute more than 40 million oxycodone pills to West Virginia every year.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Thirty-five lawyers — whose Washington, D.C.-based law firms either lobby for Purdue Pharma or represent the drug giant in OxyContin-related lawsuits across the nation — have given Morrisey’s re-election campaign a combined $23,550 in the primary election cycle alone.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Purdue Pharma, whose drug is held more responsible than any other for the nation’s opioid epidemic, gave $290,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association since 2014, IRS records show.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“We contribute to those who share our commitment in combating prescription drug abuse,” said Bob Josephson, communications director for Purdue Pharma.</div><div>
</div><div><b>During the same time period, Cardinal Health, the nation’s second largest prescription drug distributor, gave more than $34,000, and McKesson, the largest wholesaler, pitched in $16,000.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Morrisey inherited lawsuits against Cardinal Health and a dozen other distributors from his predecessor, Darrell McGraw. In January, <b>Morrisey filed suit against McKesson after Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s aides prodded him to do so for more than a year.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">RAGA also received donations totaling nearly $37,000 from two law firms — Foley & Lardner and Clark Hill PLC — that are representing other prescription drug distributors Morrisey’s office is suing.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Republican Attorneys General Association, through an affiliated political action committee, has already spent nearly $640,000 in West Virginia this year to help re-elect Morrisey. That’s more than Morrisey and his Democratic opponent, Delegate Doug Reynolds, combined have spent on their campaigns so far.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That PAC, Mountaineers Are Always Free PAC, was founded in May and is funded exclusively by RAGA.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Scott Will, RAGA’s executive director and chairman of Mountaineers Are Always Free, was Morrisey’s campaign manager in 2012.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">RAGA has also received major donations from such drug industry titans as Pfizer ($150,000), Eli Lilly ($76,000), GlaxoSmithKline ($50,000) and PhRMA ($50,000), the leading industry trade organization, representing nearly 60 pharmaceutical companies.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The donations from drug companies and their law firms are a veritable drop in the bucket for RAGA, which has raised more than $15 million this election cycle. The organization’s major donors include conservative heavyweights such as Koch Industries, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Sheldon Adelson.</span></div><div>
</div><div>“RAGA receives support from a wide variety of people and industries interested in supporting the rule of law,” Will said in an emailed statement.</div><div>
</div><div>McKesson, Cardinal Health and Purdue Pharma also have donated to the Democratic Attorneys General Association, but that group hasn’t spent any money in West Virginia. Reynolds has largely self-funded his campaign so far and has not received help from any outside groups or super PACs.</div><div>
</div><div><b>RAGA, which advertises on Morrisey’s behalf, is legally prohibited from coordinating with his campaign.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April, Huntington lawyer Marc Williams gave $500 to Morrisey’s campaign — one of two lawyers to donate to the campaign who also represents a drug distributor that Morrisey’s office is suing.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I don’t think there is any conflict,</span>” Williams said. “All of the counsel that are representing the state in that, which includes staff attorneys and retained outside counsel, have done so vigorously and represented the state’s interest well in a way that would make any objective observer proud.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Williams said he has also worked on other cases that Morrisey’s office is involved in — both with and against the attorney general — including litigation over the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, where he represents Eastman Chemical.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Williams, who’s defending drug wholesaler J.M. Smith, praised Morrisey, saying he had “significantly enhanced the quality of representation and lawyering in that office since he took over” in 2013.</div><div>
</div><div>The other drug company lawyer, Charles Bailey, did not respond to requests for comment. Bailey, who represents <b>Quest Pharmaceuticals, gave Morrisey $1,000 in 2015.</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Another lawyer who formerly represented a drug wholesaler being sued also donated to Morrisey’s campaign in May.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of Morrisey’s former employers — <b>Washington, D.C., law firms King & Spalding</b> and Sidley Austin — have given RAGA a combined $30,350.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>King & Spalding is lead defense counsel for Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin-related lawsuits</b>. Sidley Austin lobbies for Purdue Pharma on Capitol Hill.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>While Morrisey worked for Sidley Austin, lobbyists for Purdue Pharma listed Morrisey as the firm’s contact, according to lobbying disclosure forms.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At King & Spalding, Morrisey himself lobbied for the Healthcare Distribution Management Association, a trade group that represents McKesson, Cardinal Health and other prescription drug wholesalers, generating $250,000 for the firm.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Morrisey’s wife, Denise Henry, lobbies for Cardinal Health in Washington.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since last year, King & Spalding lawyers contributed $14,800 to Morrisey’s campaign, while Sidley Austin lawyers and lobbyists have added $8,750 to his coffers.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Lawyers from both firms, along with prescription drug wholesaler PACs and executives, also helped bankroll Morrisey’s 2012 campaign.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Cardinal Health executives donated $4,000 to Morrisey’s campaign in 2012, $3,000 of which came after McGraw’s office filed suit against the company. A Cardinal vice president also contributed $1,000 to Morrisey’s campaign in December 2012, a month after Morrisey defeated McGraw. Cardinal Health also contributed $2,500 to Morrisey’s inauguration ceremony</div><div>
</div><div>A McKesson vice president contributed to Morrisey’s campaign in 2012, and AmerisourceBergen’s PAC donated $2,000 to the campaign the same year.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In January, Morrisey recused himself from his office’s lawsuit against AmerisourceBergen and 10 other smaller distributors, following a state Lawyer Disciplinary Board investigation. The disciplinary board concluded that Morrisey did not violate any lawyer ethics rules, but the board suggested he step aside from the drug company lawsuit to avoid any appearance of impropriety.</span></div><div>
</div><div>That same month, Morrisey also recused himself from his office’s lawsuit against McKesson, after heading an investigation of the company for more than a year.</div><div>
</div><div>Morrisey previously stepped aside from the Cardinal Health lawsuit — a recusal he characterized as a “permanent screen” — in July 2013, seven months after taking office, according to the disciplinary board.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The investigative panel found the contributions from the drug wholesalers and their executives didn’t appear to “amount to extraordinary campaign support,” and it wasn’t unethical for Morrisey to accept the donations.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the disciplinary board noted that attorneys general in other states restrict campaign contributions from companies their offices are investigating.</span></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(233, 241, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the <em>Fortune </em>Global 100, with 900 lawyers in 18 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm also represents hundreds of clients with new ventures and mid-sized companies in emerging industries.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(233, 241, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Long-standing client relationships are one of the surest barometers of a law firm’s success in meeting its clients’ needs for legal services. King & Spalding lawyers pride themselves on developing continuing client relationships that are productive, professional and collegial. The firm is one of only 52 law firms that have been on the BTI Client Service A-Team for 12 consecutive years—representing only 8% of the law firms serving the <em>Fortune</em> 1000.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(233, 241, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, its uncompromising commitment to quality and its dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(233, 241, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Representative clients include:</font></p><table width="502" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(233, 241, 245);"><tbody><tr><td width="293" valign="top"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AstraZeneca
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Van Hollen, enhancing the firm’s bench strength on issues before state attorneys general across the country.</p><p>First elected in 2006 and reelected by an overwhelming majority in 2010, Van Hollen served two terms as Wisconsin’s 43rd attorney general. Van Hollen earned bipartisan praise during his service as the state’s attorney general, as a proactive law enforcement leader who tackled such challenging issues as cybercrime, school safety, counterfeiting, prescription drug abuse, privacy, identity theft, homeland security and violent crime. <b>In 2013, Van Hollen was elected by his peers to serve as president of the bipartisan National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG).</b></p><p>Van Hollen will work closely with King & Spalding partner Gary G. Grindler, who served as Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States and Chief of Staff to the Attorney General, and <b>J.C. Boggs, a partner in the firm’s Government Advocacy and Public Policy </b>practice. Van Hollen will also work with other attorneys active in the firm’s State AG practice, especially the firm’s <b>special matters & government investigations group, led by Chris Wray.</b></p><p>“Our collaboration with Attorney General Van Hollen will allow us to add yet another level of service to our clientele when interacting with state attorneys general across the country and on both sides of the political aisle,” said Wray, who served from 2003 to 2005 as the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division.</p><p>According to Van Hollen, “For eight years as Attorney General, I worked on a daily basis with the governor, the federal government, the law enforcement community, AGs from other states and the business sector, as well as with consumers. My mission was to seek out the best policies in a balanced manner and get things done. I plan to bring that common sense, results-orientated approach to King & Spalding and its clients.”</p><p><b>King & Spalding has been at the forefront in representing clients who have found themselves the targets of state AG investigations or claims for more than three decades. The firm’s lawyers have significant experience in serving as national or coordinating counsel in multiparty, multistate investigations and are veterans of the document production and discovery wars that frequently come with such investigations.</b></p><p>Over the years, King & Spalding has represented clients in state AG investigations and litigation across all 50 states and the District of Columbia and across a wide range of practice areas, including government investigations; environmental and toxic tort litigation; business litigation; data security breaches and policies; healthcare/pharmaceuticals; antitrust and consumer fraud; public finance; and financial services/insurance. For more information on King & Spalding’s State AG practice, visit: <a class="dotted" href="http://www.kslaw.com/practices/State-Attorneys-General" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted;">http://www.kslaw.com/practices/State-Attorneys-General</a>.</p><strong>About King & Spalding</strong>
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 900 lawyers in 18 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at <a class="dotted" href="http://www.kslaw.com/" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px dotted;">www.kslaw.com</a>.</span><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><ul class="mw-search-results" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 0.4em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 1.2em; list-style: none none;"><div class="mw-search-result-heading"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chevron" title="Chevron" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chevron</font></a></div><div class="searchresult" style="width: 38em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[[Sam Nunn]], Senior partner in the Atlanta law Firm of [[<span class="searchmatch" style="font-weight: bold;">King</span> & <span class="searchmatch" style="font-weight: bold;">Spalding</span>]], former U.S. Senator/Georgia</font></div><div class="mw-search-result-data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">35 KB (4,975 words) - 14:53, 20 May 2016</font></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 1.2em; list-style: none none;"><div class="mw-search-result-heading"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Strategic_and_Budgetary_Assessments" title="Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments</font></a></div><div class="searchresult" style="width: 38em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[[Dan Coats]], Director; he is also senior counsel in <span class="searchmatch" style="font-weight: bold;">King</span> & <span class="searchmatch" style="font-weight: bold;">Spalding</span>'s Public Policy and Government Advocacy Practice Group.</font></div><div class="mw-search-result-data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 KB (884 words) - 15:55, 21 July 2009</font></div></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-bottom: 1.2em; list-style: none none;"><div class="mw-search-result-heading"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Common_Good" title="Common Good" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Common Good</font></a></div><div class="searchresult" style="width: 38em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[[Griffin B. 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</font><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the country's biggest law firms have recently penned “client alert” memoranda, suggesting to their clients that they closely monitor the ongoing Attorneys General investigations <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032016/climate-change-fraud-investigation-exxon-eric-shneiderman-18-attorneys-general">occurring in states nationwide</a> on the potentially fraudulent behavior of ExxonMobil.
<span style="line-height: 17.6px;">DeSmog tracked down alerts written by three different firms: </span><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Crowell%20Moring%20Ever%20Widening%20Circle.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Crowell <span class="amp">&</span> Moring</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">, </span><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/When%20Attorneys%20General%20Attack.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw </a><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/When%20Attorneys%20General%20Attack.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Pittman</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">, as well as </span><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/State%20AGs%20Announce%20Climate%20Change%20Investigations.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">King <span class="amp">&</span> Spalding</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">. All of them have maintained fossil fuel industry clients as well as tobacco industry clients, a DeSmog review has revealed</span><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">. </span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">A <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/05/11/ted-wells-exxon-big-tobacco-nfl-concussions">previous DeSmog investigation</a> pointed out that Exxon has hired Ted Wells, who represented Philip Morris in Big Tobacco's racketeering lawsuit filed against it by the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of Justice, to its legal defense team for the ongoing state <span class="caps">AG</span>s' probe.
The <span class="caps">AG</span>s' investigation centers around <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/26/there-no-doubt-exxon-knew-co2-pollution-was-global-threat-late-1970s">what Exxon knew about climate change</a> and its potential impacts over the past several decades. That's juxtaposed with what the oil giant did about it: funding climate denial to the tune of at least </span><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial" style="line-height: 17.6px;">$31 million between 1998-2015</a><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">.</span></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">Two of the alerts came out in recent weeks, published in the aftermath of a press conference in New York City in which many new states announced they would join New York Attorney General <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/05/ny-attorney-general-investigation-subpoena-exxonmobil-peabody-coal-climate-denial">Eric Schneiderman's Exxon investigation</a>, </span><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">launching the “<a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032016/climate-change-fraud-investigation-exxon-eric-shneiderman-18-attorneys-general"><span class="caps">AG</span>s United for Clean Power</a>” coalition</span><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">. </span></font></p><p style=""><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All of the attorneys whose names are listed on the client alerts denied requests for on-the-record comment when contacted by DeSmog.</font></span></p><h3 style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crowell <span class="amp">&</span> Moring</font></h3><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crowell's three-page alert came out just five days after Schneiderman's office subpoenaed ExxonMobil.
The memo, titled “The Widening Circles of the Exxon Mobil Climate Disclosure Investigation and Its Implications for Energy Companies,” took note of both the <a target="blank" href="http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/">Los Angeles Times</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken">InsideClimate News</a> investigations that put “<a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=%23EXXONKNEW">Exxon Knew</a>” as a meme on the map. It pointed to them as evidence that the investigation has already gotten off to a head start, given the breadth and depth of the journalism.
“The Exxon Mobil investigation could prove even more complex, and the results more far-reaching, because of the long history of the company's own research into climate-related issues and its own public disclosures (including <span class="caps">SEC</span> filings) on the topic,” reads the alert.
“[I]n addition to the information likely to be yielded by the scope of the [New York <span class="caps">AG</span>] subpoenas, the Exxon Mobil public record has already been enhanced by two widely reported independent private investigations by news organizations, including a joint Los Angeles Times/Columbia University School of Journalism study, which describes in detail Exxon's climate research in the Arctic and the company's corresponding statements to, and omissions from, the investing public about the perceived business threat from climate change.”
Former Crowell attorney <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz">Victor Schwartz</a> — now with Shook, Hardy <span class="amp">&</span> Bacon and a <a target="blank" href="https://www.alec.org/person/victor-schwartz/">member</a> of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>'s board of scholars — <a target="blank" href="https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=pgpk0059">formerly represented tobacco giant Philip Morris</a> on behalf of the firm. <span style="line-height: 17.6px;">Crowell</span> has maintained Shell, Chevron, Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, Duke Energy, Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy, General Electric, American Petroleum Institute, Arch Coal, Schlumberger and others as <a target="blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/crowell-moring/clients">legal clients</a>.
A Koch-funded front group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042016/think-tank-fossil-fuel-ties-competitive-enterprise-institute-subpoena-attorney-general-climate-change-exxon">already received a subpoena</a> from the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands. And the American Petroleum Institute serves as one of the subjects of an InsideClimate News investigative piece, having <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122015/exxon-mobil-oil-industry-peers-knew-about-climate-change-dangers-1970s-american-petroleum-institute-api-shell-chevron-texaco">studied the impacts</a> of industry-created carbon dioxide in the atmosphere beginning back in the late-1970's only to proceed with funding climate denial in the following decades.</font></p><h3 style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">King <span class="amp">&</span> Spalding</font></span></span></h3><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On April 18, King <span class="amp">&</span> Spalding published its four-page client alert.
<b><span style="line-height: 17.6px;">One of King's clients is Chevron, which it <a target="blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=5082">represented</a> in the still-ongoing pollution case in Ecuador. It also has <a target="blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/king-spalding/clients">represented</a> Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips, Georgia-Pacific, Halliburton, General Electric, Anadarko Petroleum, Peabody Energy, Occidental Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Motiva Enterprises, <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Autry%20Petroleum%20Company%20et%20al%20v.%20BP%20Oil%20Products%20North%20America.pdf"><span class="caps">BP</span></a> and <a target="blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=6541">Big Tobacco companies</a>. </span>
King <span class="amp">&</span> Spalding opened up the alert by stating that the “growing focus by state <span class="caps">AG</span>s on climate change could present significant challenges for energy companies going forward.”</b>
“These new investigations are a striking reminder of the increasingly aggressive role that state <span class="caps">AG</span>s play in the government investigations arena,” King went on to write. “In recent years, state <span class="caps">AG</span>s have become increasingly involved in high-profile policy issues like climate change that are part of ongoing national debates. In some situations, these investigations look more like prospective policymaking than retrospective enforcement action.”
<b>In the alert, <span style="line-height: 17.6px;">King <span class="amp">&</span> Spalding</span> also touted its “strategic partnership” with former Wisconsin Republican Attorney General <span class="caps">J.B.</span> Van Hollen, <a target="blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=9138">launched in October 2015</a>, and its past attorney-client relationship with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company (which has since merged into <span class="caps">R.J.</span> Reynolds Tobacco Company). </b></font></p><h3 style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman</font></h3><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pilsbury, like the others, told its clients that although Exxon has come first in this investigation, there's a chance they could fall next in line. Not only that, the firm recommended deferring the legal costs of such an investigation to their insurance companies.
“Although the details of future enforcement activity are not clear, it is reasonable to expect increasing government scrutiny of climate change-related disclosures,” wrote the firm to its clients.
“Our White Collar and Insurance Recovery and Advisory attorneys routinely evaluate <span class="caps">CID</span>s and subpoenas and help clients not only to develop strategies to respond, but to maximize the potential that our clients’ insurance companies pay for that response. In most cases, we are able to review and evaluate specific situations for relatively low cost or fixed fee arrangements, which enable us to assist our clients to proactively improve our clients’ position and minimize their risk.”
The <a target="blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/pillsbury-winthrop/clients">firm's client list</a> has included the likes of Chevron, British American Tobacco, Schlumberger, as well as <a target="blank" href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com/litigation">Duke Energy</a>.</font></p><h3 style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contemplating Similar Fate?</font></h3><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A recent report published by the Center for International Environmental Law (<span class="caps">CIEL</span>), based on documents put up on the website <a target="_blank" href="https://www.smokeandfumes.org/#/">SmokeAndFumes.org</a>, moved back the time clock of what the fossil fuel industry knew and when it knew it with regards to carbon dioxide pollution and global warming. The report concluded that knowledge dated back at least to the 1950's, which coincided with the industry proceeding to create a disinformation campaign to confuse the public about the impacts of emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><span class="caps">CIEL</span> president </span><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">Carroll Muffett described DeSmog's findings as important on a number of levels. </span></font></p><p style=""><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“These notices to clients demonstrate that, even as Exxon and its allies attempt to minimize and dismiss the <span class="caps">AG</span> investigations in the media, the fossil fuel industry recognizes their significance for individual companies and for the industry as a whole,” Muffett told DeSmog.</font></span></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">“That oil companies are turning to the same firms that represented tobacco is telling: once it began, tobacco litigation continued for decades and ultimately ensnared the entire industry. Fossil fuel producers are now clearly–and legitimately–contemplating a similar fate,” Muffett said.</span>
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