Arent Fox

=beat IRS on C4 (for pharma?)=<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/big-corporations-put-up-seed-money-for-republican-nonprofit">https://www.propublica.org/article/big-corporations-put-up-seed-money-for-republican-nonprofit</a>justin elliot 2013<div class="series-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="series-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px -0.66em; padding: 0.33em 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.025em; text-indent: inherit;"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/series/buying-your-vote" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">BUYING YOUR VOTE</a></h3></div><h1 class="hed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 163.766px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.1; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group</h1><h2 class="dek" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 245.656px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group.</h2><div class="metadata" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: inherit; text-transform: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; display: inline;">by <a class="name" href="https://www.propublica.org/people/justin-elliott" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">Justin Elliott</a> <time class="timestamp" datetime="2013-02-14EST08:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST</time></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of the nation’s biggest corporations donated more than a million dollars to launch a Republican nonprofit that went on to play a key role in recent political fights.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">Like the <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">nonprofit groups</a> that poured money into last year’s elections, the decade-old <a href="http://www.sglf.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">State Government Leadership Foundation</a> has been able to keep the identities of its funders secret. Until now.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">A records request by ProPublica to the IRS turned up <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/603571-sglf-donors-test" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">a list</a> of the original funders of the group: Exxon, Pfizer, Time Warner, and other corporations put up at least 85 percent of the $1.3 million the foundation raised in the first year and a half of its existence, starting in 2003.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The donor list is stamped “<a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/603571-sglf-donors-test" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">not for public disclosure</a>,” and was submitted to the IRS as part of the foundation’s <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/603074-state-government-leadership-foundation-irs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">application</a> for recognition of tax-exempt status. If approved, such applications are public records.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The foundation and other similar nonprofits are allowed to take anonymous and unlimited donations from individuals or corporations. That’s because they are classified as “social welfare” nonprofits, which are supposed to benefit the community at large, and not just one group or political party.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year, <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dark-money-helped-republicans-hold-the-house-and-hurt-voters" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">we reported</a> how the State Government Leadership Foundation paid for Republican redistricting consultants to draw new congressional district maps in North Carolina. The resulting gerrymander helped flip the state’s congressional delegation to Republicans.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">In recent years, the foundation has also funded TV ads <a href="http://www.wisdc.org/sglf2011.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">targeting Democrats</a> during the 2011 Wisconsin showdown over collective bargaining rights; <a href="http://www.sglf.org/sglf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">attacking</a> President Obama in Virginia over his energy policy; and <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2012/05/08/conservative-group-accuses-teachers-unions-of-bullying-children/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">accusing</a> teachers unions of “destroying our children’s future.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">The foundation also <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/537961-state-leadership-government-foundation-2011-990#document/p28" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">gave</a> $1.25 million in 2011 to the Indiana Opportunity Fund, a state-level nonprofit that <a href="http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120108/LOCAL0202/301089943/1002/LOCAL&template=printart" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">ran</a> anti-union ads featuring Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. (That group was founded by attorney Jim Bopp, who has <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-21/election-spending-to-exceed-6-billion-thanks-partly-to-jim-bopp.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">long fought</a> against campaign finance regulation.)<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">The foundation’s single-biggest early donor was the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/01/us-citigroup-ameriquest-idUSN3128419320070901" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">now-defunct</a> mortgage lender Ameriquest, which gave more than $260,000. (We contacted a number of the companies on the list; they did not respond to requests for comment.) Corporate trade associations including the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the Edison Electric Institute, and the American Tort Reform Association also pitched in, each giving between $50,000 and $100,000.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">The foundation’s affiliated organization, the <a href="http://rslc.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican State Leadership Committee</a>, focuses on winning state-level elections for the GOP and also gets <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_contribs.php?cycle=2010&ein=050532524" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">corporate money</a>, including from tobacco and insurance giants.  As an explicitly political organization, the committee has to disclose its donors.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">By contrast, the recent funders of the foundation, which <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/537961-state-leadership-government-foundation-2011-990#document/p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">took in</a> $2.5 million in 2011 including a single donation of $1 million, are still secret.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">The foundation applied for IRS recognition as a social welfare group in late 2003 but was initially rejected. The IRS <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/602764-irs-to-sglf-rejection-letter#document/p9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">concluded</a> the foundation was “a partisan organization” that “operated primarily for the benefit of a select group” – the GOP. Social welfare groups, the IRS’ rejection letter noted, must promote the “general welfare of the whole community” — not a particular group.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">The foundation’s lawyers from the firm Arent Fox fired back in <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/602765-sglf-response-to-irs-rejection" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">an appeal</a>, arguing that the foundation was not a partisan outfit.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The foundation, according to the 2005 appeal, “was created to promote public debate” about issues including pharmaceuticals, securities regulation, and asbestos litigation.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It may be useful to describe what the SGLF is not,” the appeal says. “The SGLF:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.625rem 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">• Is not affiliated with the Republican Party in any way;• Does not meet with or coordinate its activities with the Republican Party;• Does not make contributions to, or accept contributions from, the Republican Party;• Does not participate in political campaigns, elections or publish electioneering messages on behalf of any candidate or party;• Does not invite Representatives of the Republican Party to speak at its events, and• Does not participate in the Republican Party platform, does not recruit or train Republican candidates, does not fundraise for Republican candidates, and does not coordinate its issue selection or policy positions with the Republican Party.</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2007, more than three years after the foundation’s application, the IRS ultimately <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/603074-state-government-leadership-foundation-irs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">recognized</a> it as a tax-exempt social welfare group.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline;">But the group’s protestations that it has nothing to do with the GOP seems at odds with its recent activities. Besides running ads attacking Democrats, the foundation was involved in redistricting in several states to, as the foundation put it in <a href="https://www.propublica.org/documents/item/537408-hofeller-sglf-rslc-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 162, 230); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;">a letter to Republican legislators</a>, draw “legislative lines that we will have to defend in 2012 and beyond.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Foundation spokesperson Jill Bader told ProPublica that since its creation the foundation’s “activities have evolved in some ways from those that were originally contemplated and conducted by the organization.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.625; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bader continued: “SGLF’s present activities are in strict compliance with the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and all future SGLF activities will be in strict compliance as well.”<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/pruitt-fast-tracked-cleanup-after-hewitt-brokered-meeting.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/pruitt-fast-tracked-cleanup-after-hewitt-brokered-meeting.html</a>
hard

to believe that EPA administrator Scott Pruitt took any action that

might be considered ethically shady. But sometimes, even your heroes let

you down.

        
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Monday night that Pruitt had prioritized work on a Superfund cleanup

site after a meeting brokered by MSNBC host Hugh Hewitt, who has

continued to defend Pruitt as he navigates an ever-expanding universe of

scandals.

As <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/07/pruitt-california-cleanup-hewitt-meeting-521215">Politico reports</a>:

        
          <blockquote data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/blockquote/instances/cjgxrib3t001s3k5z4p1r5x1r@published" class="blockquote" data-editable="text" data-word-count="108"><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hewitt, a resident of Orange County whose son James works in EPA’s press office, <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=00000163-3d1c-d9b5-af73-ffffec1a0001">emailed</a> Pruitt in September to set up a meeting between the administrator and the law firm Larson O’Brien, which <a href="https://larsonobrienlaw.com/attorneys/">employs</a>

Hewitt and represents the Orange County Water District. Pruitt had been

planning to meet with the lawyers in California a month earlier, but

cancelled the trip to undergo knee surgery.
“I’ll join if the Administrator would like me too or can catch up later at a dinner,” Hewitt wrote in his Sept. 18 <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=00000163-3d1e-d4e8-a5ff-bf7f2f180001">message</a>. Hewitt added that the issues surrounding the Superfund site were “Greek to me but a big deal in my home county.”</blockquote>

        
          
        
          <p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjgxri1f4001n3k5zv6xyy2o5@published" data-word-count="24"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt’s aides returned the email almost immediately and set up a meeting, in a bout of enthusiasm usually reserved for <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/381983-pruitt-met-with-fossil-fuel-reps-25-times-more-than">oil and gas lobbyists</a>.</font></span></p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
        
          </span><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjgxriq25001y3k5z8zs7np62@published" data-word-count="52"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weeks later, the EPA, which under Pruitt has emphasized <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-superfund-sites-scott-pruitt-could-flip-his-industry-friendly-script/2018/01/23/070c07d4-f659-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.0b1c55836d35">Superfund cleanups</a>

while sidelining other traditional duties, put the Orange County site

on a list of areas to address. Pruitt then proposed placing the site on

the agency’s National Priorities List, which could make it eligible for

further federal funding down the line.

        
          
        
          </span><p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjgxriq26001z3k5zv10rfvba@published" data-word-count="54"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In

keeping with Pruitt’s unprecedented secrecy, the meeting with Hewitt’s

lawyers was never disclosed to the public; it was uncovered by the

Sierra Club through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Documents

obtained by the group also showed that Pruitt went out of his way to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/climate/epa-pruitt-emails-secrecy.html">avoid unfriendly questioning</a> at events, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/internal-documents-pull-back-curtain-pruitt-s-epa-n872131">among other revelations</a>.

As Pruitt’s problems have piled up, Hewitt, a conservative voice at MSNBC, has consistently <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/04/03/Hugh-Hewitt-dismisses-the-scandal-over-Scott-Pruitts-condo-rental/219833">stood by him</a>, labeling the charges against him as “nonsense.”

In an email to Politico,

Hewitt said that Pruitt was a friend, but that he did not work with

him. On Twitter, he called the newly revealed meeting a “non-story, and

said that he had often mentioned his friendship with Pruitt on air.

        
          
        
          <aside data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-tweet/instances/cjgxyg0z9000y3b5znat0o960@published" class="clay-tweet" data-editable="default">
          <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes.

Non story. I sent Scott an email asking him to meet with a client of

firm re an Obama era clean up agreement which we supported for Orange

County Water District. Non story.— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/993889777006141440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>

        
            
        </aside>
        
          <aside data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-tweet/instances/cjgxyhqj500123b5zrbj761hi@published" class="clay-tweet" data-editable="default">
          <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I replied to <a href="https://twitter.com/politico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Politico</a>

last night as soon as they asked. This is a necessary clean up 4 Orange

County, approved u under Obama EPA Region 9. I also told <a href="https://twitter.com/politico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Politico</a> the last time I was in the office of a senior EPA official pleading a client’s case was w/old friend Felicia Marcus.— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/993894665828098051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>

        
            
        </aside>
        
          <aside data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-tweet/instances/cjgxyi5oh00163b5zi9jpedjl@published" class="clay-tweet" data-editable="default">
          <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who

was Bill Clinton’s Region 9 Administrator. Reporter did not include that

in story. But yes, I asked for meeting. Proud to have done so though it

isn’t my client. It was my home and I have served as County appointee

for 17 years. Nasty place needs clean up ASAP.— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/993895030027890688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></blockquote>

        
            
        </aside>
        
          
        
          
        
          <aside data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-tweet/instances/cjgxyibjh001a3b5zhftst6ev@published" class="clay-tweet" data-editable="default">
          <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, I have disclosed my friendship with Scott Pruitt about 300 times on air, whenever I have discussed <a href="https://twitter.com/EPA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EPA</a> issues on air or in print. Every. Single. Time.</font></span></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/993895473084813313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></font></blockquote>
        
            
        </aside>
        
          <p class="clay-paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/instances/cjgxriq2800223k5zq5ynxpyq@published" data-word-count="43"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pruitt

faces at least 11 separate investigations over behavior that ranges

from renting a cut-rate room from an energy lobbyist’s wife to

repeatedly flying first-class, supposedly to avoid frightening threats

like the time <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/scott-pruitt-epa-death-threats?utm_term=.hypEk77aJ#.auNoA33zG">someone drew a mustach</a>e on a picture of his face.

The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/climate/trump-fire-pruitt-epa.html">reported on Monday</a> that President Trump was finally tiring of Pruitt’s endless distractions, and is being urged by advisers to fire him.

But the Politico report also raises another employment-related question:

        
          
          <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How does <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> possibly justify keeping Hugh Hewitt on the payroll given this?<a href="https://t.co/dT3lTHqiEq">https://t.co/dT3lTHqiEq</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/993846100606976002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2018</a></font></blockquote><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==<b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>off bs</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /><b>Developer Jeffrey Burum, who was acquitted of all charges in the

Colonies corruption case last year, filed on Tuesday a malicious

prosecution and civil rights violation claim against San Bernardino

County
https://larsonobrienlaw.com/news/targate/clean water trump rollback scotus?Bb newsmax
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hugh hewitt wapo
Stephen G. Larson and Robert C. O’Brien, the founding partners of

Larson O’Brien LLP, have collaborated professionally for over 20 years.

Each began their legal careers at two AmLaw 50 firms – Larson joining

O’Melveny & Myers following his graduation from USC Law School in

1989, and O’Brien joining Skadden Arps after his graduation from Boalt

Hall at UC Berkeley in 1991.  Larson and O’Brien first worked together

in 1995 at an international conference attended by senior legal

officials from Russia hosted by Larson, who had by then left O’Melveny

to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, and at which

O’Brien, who would shortly depart Skadden to serve the U.N. Security

Council (Compensation Commission) in Geneva and Kuwait, was a featured

speaker.  Their mutual interest in law, politics, and international

relations – Larson had graduated from Georgetown University’s School of

Foreign Service and O’Brien had graduated from UCLA with a major in

political science – resulted in a long period of personal and

professional collaboration which witnessed Larson appointed as a U.S.

Magistrate Judge in 2000 and, upon nomination by President George W.

Bush in 2005 and subsequent U.S. Senate confirmation, as a U.S. District

Judge for the Central District of California; and O’Brien create his

own firm, O’Brien Zarian (later O’Brien Abeles) in 1999 and be appointed

by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as a U.S.

Alternate Representative to the United Nations for the 2005-2006 term,

during which he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.  He subsequently

was appointed by the President to serve on the U.S. Cultural Property

Advisory Committee from 2008 to 2011.

In 2007, O’Brien, who by then had merged his law firm with Washington

DC-based Arent Fox LLP and became the founding managing partner of its

Los Angeles office, was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

to be the founding co-chair of the Private-Public Partnership for

Justice Reform in Afghanistan.  O’Brien’s first call was to Larson, then

a District Judge, to join him as a member of the Partnership’s

Executive Committee.  Together, first under Secretary Rice and then

under Secretary Hillary Clinton, O’Brien and Larson, together with their

colleagues, conducted numerous rule of law training programs for Afghan

judges, prosecutors, and lawyers in both the United States and

Afghanistan and established an LLM program for young Afghan lawyers in

partnership with various U.S. law schools that continues to this day. 

In addition, O’Brien and Larson travelled to Africa in support of

justice reform efforts in Rwanda, and each has lectured and participated

in rule of law training programs around the world.

In 2011, Larson, who had left the bench to return to private practice

after 18 years of government service, joined O’Brien as a partner at

Arent Fox.  Together Larson and O’Brien spent the next five years

working as the leading litigators and appellate attorneys in Arent Fox’s

Los Angeles office, where O’Brien was now serving as the California

Managing Partner (having opened the Arent Fox San Francisco office in

June 2013), and where Larson served as the firm’s national Practice

Group Leader for Complex Litigation.  During their time at Arent Fox,

O’Brien conducted arbitration and trials from Los Angeles to Singapore,

and Larson led investigations as far away as London and Johannesburg and

appeared before trial courts and courts of appeal in California and

elsewhere, including both the California Supreme Court and the United

States Supreme Court.

In 2016, deciding to create their own law firm focused exclusively on

trials, appeals, and investigations, Larson and O’Brien departed Arent

Fox to establish Larson O’Brien LLP in the heart of Los Angeles’

downtown business center.  Joined by an extraordinary group of

colleagues that includes former federal law clerks, former federal

prosecutors, and former top AmLaw litigators, Larson O’Brien has quickly

emerged as one of the top litigation, appellate, and white collar

boutiques in California.  In addition to new engagements with such

long-standing clients as The Walt Disney Company, Korbel Champagne

Cellars, and the Orange County Water District, since its founding the

firm has also been engaged by the State of Arizona to represent its

consumers in claims against Volkswagen, victims of the December 2

terrorist attack in San Bernardino in litigation between Apple and the

FBI, and both national and international companies targeted in various

investigations.===

Arent Fox PLLC, founded in 1942 by Henry J. Fox, Albert E. Arent, Edwin L. Kahn, Harry M. Plotkin and Earl W. Kintner and "now with nearly 300 lawyers in offices in Washington, DC, New York and Los Angeles," is a "dynamic, diversified firm with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arentfox.com/practices/">26 practice groups</a> and an emphasis on real estate, life sciences and intellectual property," its website states.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#History">1 History</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#Lobbying">2 Lobbying</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#Contact_Information">4 Contact Information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#External_links">5 External links</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#Resources_and_articles">6 Resources and articles</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#Related_Sourcewatch">6.1 Related Sourcewatch</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#References">6.2 References</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

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<h2>History</h2>

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Henry_J._Fox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry J. Fox (page does not exist)">Henry J. Fox</a>, who founded the firm in 1942, started its labor, government contract and administrative practice. He successfully argued a case before the US Supreme Court establishing the obligation of the US government to pay double and premium pay to a large class of government employees who were required to work without extra pay on legal holidays during World War II. He served as the firm’s first managing partner.

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Albert_E._Arent&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Albert E. Arent (page does not exist)">Albert E. Arent</a> joined the firm in 1944 and was actively involved in the business community and local charitable affairs. He founded the firm’s tax and real estate practice and was the initial guiding force behind the firm’s pro bono work. The firm’s award for outstanding pro bono work is named in his honor.

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edwin_L._Kahn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edwin L. Kahn (page does not exist)">Edwin L. Kahn</a> joined the firm in 1955 after serving in high-level positions with the Internal Revenue Service, where he played a prominent role in drafting the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. He was very active in the American Bar Association and was instrumental in establishing the firm’s national reputation in the field of federal income taxation.

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_M._Plotkin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry M. Plotkin (page does not exist)">Harry M. Plotkin</a> joined the firm in 1956 after serving as the assistant general counsel to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> and founded the firm’s communications practice. He argued many important cases before the US Supreme Court, including cases that were significant in the development of the doctrine of freedom of speech as it applied to the media.

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earl_W._Kintner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Earl W. Kintner (page does not exist)">Earl W. Kintner</a> joined the firm in 1961 after serving as chairman and general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and helped build the firm’s national reputation in the field of federal trade regulation. He was also a major supporter of the Legal Aid Society and the Federal Bar Association. With Earl Kintner’s arrival, the firm adopted the name Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. It was changed to Arent Fox in early 2004.

"The firm grew steadily and by the 1970s was largely guided by two senior partners, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_B.Hirsch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert B. Hirsch (page does not exist)">Robert B. Hirsch</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_M.Osnos" title="David M. Osnos">David M. Osnos</a>...

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marc_Fleischaker" title="Marc Fleischaker" class="mw-redirect">Marc Fleischaker</a> became Arent Fox chairman in 1997. " <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

<h2>Lobbying</h2>

In 2006, Arent Fox's total lobbying income was $3,840,000. Clients in 2006 included: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/firmsum.asp?txtname=Arent%2C+Fox+et+al">[1]</a>

<ul>

<li>ACC Capital Holdings</li>

<li>Acxiom Corp</li>

<li>Admetech</li>

<li>Akridge</li>

<li>American College of Nurse Practitioners</li>

<li>American Interventional Pain Physicians</li>

<li>Aventis Pasteur USA</li>

<li>Biotechnology Industry Organization</li>

<li>Bridgestone Corp</li>

<li>Business Software Alliance</li>

<li>CAEAR Coalition</li>

<li>California Dairies Inc</li>

<li>CardioNet</li>

<li>Catfish Institute</li>

<li>Comcast Corp</li>

<li>Commonwealth of Puerto Rico</li>

<li>Computer Sciences Corp</li>

<li>DC United</li>

<li>FedBid Inc</li>

<li>Forest City Enterprises / Forest City Washington</li>

<li>Golf Course Specialists</li>

<li>Healthcare Distribution Management Association</li>

<li>Insight Health Services Corp</li>

<li>Jacksonville State University</li>

<li>Laserscope</li>

<li>Marywood University</li>

<li>Memorial Hospital</li>

<li>MHA Management Services</li>

<li>Modern Transit Partnership</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto">Monsanto</a></li>

<li>Moses Taylor Hospital</li>

<li>National Association of Convenience Store Operators</li>

<li>National Association of Pediatric Nurse</li>

<li>National Coalition/Quality Diagnostic Imaging Svc</li>

<li>New York Mercantile Exchange</li>

<li>OII Steering Committee</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/One_Million_Republicans_PAC" title="One Million Republicans PAC">One Million Republicans PAC</a> (FEC: May 8, 2007)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patton_Boggs_LLP" title="Patton Boggs LLP" class="mw-redirect">Patton Boggs LLP</a></li>

<li>Peer Chain</li>

<li>Public Defender Service for DC</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Raytheon" title="Raytheon">Raytheon</a></li>

<li>Riceland Foods</li>

<li>Rosemary Love et al</li>

<li>Schering-Plough Corp</li>

<li>Tennessee Technological University</li>

<li>Trinidad/Benham Corp</li>

<li>University of Arkansas / University of Arkansas Medical Sciences</li>

<li>Washington Drama Society/Arena Stage</li>

<li>Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation</li>

<li>York County, PA</li>

</ul>

Attorneys can be located via the searchable <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arentfox.com/people/">database</a>.

<h2>Contact Information</h2>

1050 Connecticut Ave N.W.

Washington, DC 20036-5339

Phone: 202 775-5791

FAX: 202 857-6395

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.arentfox.com/">http://www.arentfox.com/</a>

Other contact info: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.arentfox.com/contact/">http://www.arentfox.com/contact/</a>

<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nndb.com/company/259/000124884/">Profile: Arent Fox</a>, NNDB.com.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/firmsum.asp?txtname=Arent%2C+Fox+et+al">Lobbying Database: Arent Fox et al.</a>, Open Secrets.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/profile.aspx?act=firms&year=2003&lo=L000558">Profile: Arent Fox PLLC</a>, LobbyWatch / <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Public_Integrity" title="Center for Public Integrity">Center for Public Integrity</a>.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Resources and articles</h2>

<h3>Related Sourcewatch</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Appleseed_Foundation" title="Appleseed Foundation">Appleseed Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/US_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum" title="US Holocaust Memorial Museum" class="mw-redirect">US Holocaust Memorial Museum</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Dwyer" title="John Dwyer">John Dwyer</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eugene_Massey" title="Eugene Massey">Eugene Massey</a> - Counsel</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_University" title="American University">American University</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Executive_Service_Corps" title="National Executive Service Corps">National Executive Service Corps</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Thompson" title="Fred Thompson">Fred Thompson</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/One_Million_Republicans_PAC" title="One Million Republicans PAC">One Million Republicans PAC</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Craig_Engle" title="Craig Engle">Craig Engle</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dale_Bumpers" title="Dale Bumpers">Dale Bumpers</a> - Counsel</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_C._Culver" title="John C. Culver">John C. Culver</a> - Counsel</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_S._Blass" title="Michael S. Blass">Michael S. Blass</a> - Partner in Charge, NY</li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arentfox.com/firm/index.cfm?fa=history">history</a>, Arent Fox, accessed February 19, 2010.</li>

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GMOStanley H. Abramson is a partner and lobbyist at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arent_Fox_LLP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arent Fox LLP (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Arent Fox LLP</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[1]</a> He joined Arent Fox in 2000 after working as a lobbyist at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/King%26_Spalding" title="King & Spalding" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">King & Spalding</a> from 1989 to 1998. Before that, he worked at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">EPA</a> from 1982 to 1988 and at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_Highway_Administration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Federal Highway Administration (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Federal Highway Administration</a> from 1979 to 1982.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a> He received his BS from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Drexel_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Drexel University (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Drexel University</a> in 1969, his JD from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rutgers_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rutgers University (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rutgers University</a> in 1973, and his MPA from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=University_of_Southern_California&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="University of Southern California (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Southern California</a> in 1986.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: medium none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#Bio" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">1 Bio</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#Contact_Info" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">2 Contact Info</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#Articles_and_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3 Articles and resources</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.2 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">3.4 External articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bio</h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Practice Areas</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stan Abramson is a partner in the Arent Fox Washington, DC office, where he co-chairs the life sciences group. Stan’s practice is focused on biotechnology, food safety, pesticide law, and environmental law, with emphasis on product counseling and regulation. He represents clients in federal and state enforcement proceedings, defends challenges to pesticides and other chemical and biological products, develops corporate compliance and product stewardship programs, and conducts environmental audits and due diligence reviews.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Client Work</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stan has more than 30 years experience in risk based programs and environmental law, including more than five years as an environmental and pesticide attorney with the US Environmental Protection Agency, where he served as associate general counsel for Pesticides and Toxic Substances and was a principal drafter of the federal government’s Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stan works extensively with risk assessment and risk management issues and has served on interdisciplinary teams that have represented manufacturers in proceedings before regulatory agencies and the courts on issues related to pesticide law, food and drug law, and pharmaceutical products. He assists clients in obtaining regulatory approvals for agricultural, industrial and consumer products, including products improved through modern biotechnology. He deals with a wide variety of product related matters including advertising and labeling, testing and reporting, product liability disputes, export/import clearances, data use and compensation disputes, right-to-know programs, and trade secret protection.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Professional Activities</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stan served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants and is an associate member of the National Society of Professional Engineers. He also chaired the American Bar Association Committee on Chemical Regulation, Pesticides, and Right-To-Know.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Publications, Presentations and Recognitions</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Stan was selected by his peers to be included in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Environmental Law.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"As one of Washington, DC’s leading food and drug, biotechnology, and pesticide attorneys, Stan is a thought leader on life sciences legal issues and has authored numerous articles on biotechnology, food safety, pesticide law, and environmental law. He coauthored the Biosafety Sourcebook and is an editor of the Environmental Law Institute’s Law of Environmental Protection. He is a guest lecturer at American University’s Washington College of Law and has also held several recent speaking engagements including, “Traceability and Labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms: European Rules and Consequences,” on October 2, 2004 for the American Agricultural Law Association and “Environmental Auditing: Where We Are Today,” at the Bureau of National Affairs Audio Conference on November 10, 2004."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">[4]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contact Info</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; 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" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ph: 202.857.8935</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Email: abramson.stanley@arentfox.com</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Articles and resources</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related SourceWatch articles</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; 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" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Monsanto</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Biotechnology</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Biotech_Riders_in_the_2012_Farm_Bill" title="Biotech Riders in the 2012 Farm Bill" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Biotech Riders in the 2012 Farm Bill</a></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References</h3><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stanley_H.Abramson#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arentfox.com/people/index.cfm?fa=profile&id=2" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) no-repeat scroll 100% 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 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" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" repeat="repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Stanley H. 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