The Washington Inquisitor
K Street Tracker
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Lobbying firm reports $200,000 from Panama’s ship registry as U.S. sanctions hit Panama-flagged vessels
Checkmate Government Relations registered to lobby for the Panama Maritime Authority on “flag vessels” and reported $200,000 in third-quarter income, days after Treasury sanctioned seven Panama-flagged ships. A 2025 FARA contract sets…
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GEO Group kept up its Washington lobbying in the quarter before ICE bought three of its detention centers
GEO reported $340,000 in in-house lobbying for the third quarter, flat with most quarters since 2025. Days later it sold its Adelanto complex to the government for $950 million and said more…
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After his pardon, Binance’s founder hired a new Washington team, and Binance kept paying for “executive relief”
Binance’s lobbyist Checkmate reported $750,000 last quarter for work that still includes “executive relief,” a year after Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao. Zhao has since hired three firms of his own. A records…
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K Street Tracker: CVS’s lobbying falls 43%, and late and amended reports reshape the third quarter
CVS reported $2.04 million after the deadline, Gilead amended its total down to $2.32 million and the Business Roundtable’s $5.81 million report turned up. Here are the filings that arrived after Tuesday’s…
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McEntee reports another $225,000 from Tencent and adds a second company on the Pentagon’s China list
Trump’s first-term personnel chief has now reported $1.075 million from Tencent. In August he registered for InnoLight, a Chinese optical-parts maker the Pentagon listed in June, but no report for that client…