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Gulf investor asks US court to subpoena Kuwait lobbying records http://almon.co/3avb via @AlMonitor
The Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) asked a federal court last week to subpoena a dozen banks in New York as part of a potential lawsuit against the Port Fund.
The requested subpoenas could shed light on the activities of high-level lobbyists.
The requested subpoenas could shed light on the activities of high-level lobbyists.
(Squire Patton Boggs, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and Fahmy Hudome International were listed in court documents, along with law firm Crowell & Moring and PR firms Sanglier Media and Tricuro.)
NEW: Port Fund lawyers just revealed in a filing that Neil Bush, the brother of George W. Bush, was paid more than $1 million "to provide services and assist with the Fund's efforts to unfreeze the $496 million by Noor Bank"
The payments to Bush were long a mystery because he didn't register to lobby https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2019/09/04/what-neil-bush-is-doing-for-kgl-730371
Meanwhile, diGenova and Toensing, the firm run by conservative legal duo Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, was paid $23,875 for "services and assist with the Fund's efforts to unfreeze the $496 Million held by Noor"
The lawyers also disclosed In Defense of Christians' ( @indefchristians) Sept. 5, 2019 letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin calling for Global Magnitsky sanctions to be levied upon Kuwaiti officials
(That letter was disclosed as part of a discussion of litigation/evidence in the Cayman Islands related to a proceeding on section 22 of the Cayman Islands Exempted Limited Partnership Law)
The SDNY docket can be viewed here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16630278/in-re-ex-parte-application-of-gulf-investment-corporation-for-an-order-to/
