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Livingston Group Lobbied for Libya, Qaddafi Charity

Susan Crabtree | February 22, 2011, 6:43PM

The Livingston Group, one of the main lobbying firms working on behalf of Egypt and former President Hosni Mubarak, also was paid $2.5 million in 2008 and 2009 to influence Washington on behalf of the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and a charity run by his son Saif Al Islam Al Qaddafi.

"In 2008, the lobbyists held several meetings with members of Congress and their staff 'concerning the legislative status of amending a statutory provision against U.S. trade with Libya,' in an effort to boost foreign investment in the country," reports the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to government transparency. "Around the same time as the meetings the Senate lifted the sanctions on the nation imposed after U.S declared Libya a terrorist state in the 1980s."

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