Another payday for the gang in Washington...

Kind of neat how this works, aint it?

Pakistan's Lobbyists, Dennis Kucinich's Small-Donor Money Machine and More in Capital Eye Opener: May 4 - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets

LOBBYISTS FOR PAKISTAN: What do you do when you're a foreign government facing heat from U.S. lawmakers about whether you were officially hiding, aiding or abetting Osama bin Laden? Turn to federal lobbyists for assistance, of course. "Pakistan will likely call upon Washington lobbyists to help repair its fraught U.S. relations after Osama bin Laden was found and killed in the country Sunday," The Hill reported Tuesday. The newspaper goes on to note that "Locke Lord Strategies has been lobbying for the Pakistani embassy since May 2008, earning more than $1.9 million in fees, according to Justice Department records."

Locke Lord Strategies' lobbying team is headed by Mark Siegel, a long-time Democratic operative who previously worked in the White House during Democrat Jimmy Carter's presidency. According to research by the Center for Responsive Politics, Siegel donated $1,000 to both Hillary Clinton, now the U.S. Secretary of State, during her failed 2008 presidential bid. During the 2008 election cycle, his wife, Judith Siegel, who is a consultant to the State Department and an adjunct faculty member at New York University, meanwhile, donated $3,550 to Barack Obama.