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Article: Lobbying Firm Made Payment to Hill Aide; Lewis Staffer Received Nearly $2 Million
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- The Washington Post
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- June 10, 2006
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A lobbying firm with close ties to Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
paid nearly $2 million last year in a separation agreement with a
partner who was leaving to become a top aide to Lewis, then the new
chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Attorneys for Jeffrey S. Shockey, who became the deputy staff
director of the committee, told reporters yesterday that the lobbying
firm of Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White projected that Shockey
would have made $3 million at the firm in 2005 if he had remained a
lobbyist. That would have been a 76 percent increase from the $1.7
million he billed clients the year before.
The firm's relationship with Lewis is being scrutinized by federal ...