Earlier this afternoon, the House Clerk’s Office sent out emails to a number of registered federal lobbyists and lobbyist organizations alerting them to a missing 2016 Mid-Year LD-203 contribution report (due on August 1, 2016). It appears that this email was sent in error to a batch of registrants who
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DOJ Files First Real Lobbying Disclosure Act Enforcement Action
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On Friday, June 7, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia filed what appears to be the first ever complaint in a Lobbying Disclosure Act (“LDA”) enforcement action that was not the product of a negotiated settlement. While there have been a small handful of settled enforcement actions…
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GAO Opens a New Wave of Lobbying Disclosure Act Compliance Audits
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Posted in Lobbying Compliance
Based on reports from around town here in D.C., the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has begun a new wave of audits of firms that are registered under the federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (“LDA”). These periodic audits are required under legislation enacted in 2007, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act…
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