Exhibits - John Ashcroft, Former Attorney General

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Chicago Tribune
November 10, 2004, Wednesday
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WASHINGTON -- Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, whose unapologetic support for broad er surveillance and investigative powers
after the Sept. 11 attacks drew bitter criticism from civil liberties groups, resigned Tuesday. Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one
of President Bush's closest friends, also left the Cabinet.
The departures are the first of what are expected to be several changes in the Bush administration as the president begins his
second term in January.
Evans, a longtime friend of the president from Texas, maintained a low public profile in the Cabinet. Ashcroft, in contrast,
while not part of Bush's inner circle was one of the most high profile members of the administration, with a vocal following among
conservative Christians and a legion of critics among civil libertarians.
Ashcroft's nearly four-year tenure was defined by the Sept. 11 attacks, which prompted a refocusing of the Justice Department
from its traditional concentration on crime and civil rights to a new emphasis on terrorism prevention and investigation.
In leaving, Ashcroft was blunt about what he felt he had achieved. "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from
crime and terror has been achieved," he said in a five-page handwritten note to Bush that was dated Nov. 2 but released Tuesday.
Ashcroft touted a string of arrests following the 2001 attacks, butdrew fire for his department's increased scrutiny of the
American Muslim community, which sometimes led to criminal prosecutions and deportations, but only rarely to terrorism arrests.
To date there have been no jury convictions on post-Sept. 11 terror charges.
The attorney general, a Chicago native, conservative Missourian and son of an Assemblies of God minister, was an ardent
champion of the USA Patriot Act, a sweeping measure passed just weeks after Sept. 11 with the expressed goal of removing legal
barriers to investigating and capturing terrorists.
But the law is controversial because it makes it easier for the government to spy on and gather personal information about
people. It loosens restrictions on electronic eavesdropping and allowing authorities to secretly obtain personal data such as store
receipts, library withdrawals and bank and medical records.
In a statement on Ashcroft's resignation, Bush praised the attorney general for "making sure our law enforcement officials
have the tools they need to disrupt and prevent attacks" while making "sure that the rights of Americans are respected and
protected."
But that is far from a consensus view.
In a statement, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), wished Ashcroft well but said that "President Bush now has the opportunity to
appoint a new attorney general who will protect not only our safety, but our constitutional rights as well."
Earlier this year, Ashcroft, 62, missed a month of work while his gall bladder was removed. It was not immediately clear if his
departure is connected to his health.
Evans, 58, served as chairman of the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2000 and played a big role in the building of a large campaign
war chest for his old friend from their days in the oil business in Texas.
He had been considered a possible replacement either for Andrew Card, the president's chief of staff, or John Snow, the
secretary of the treasury. But Bush announced Monday that Card would remain in his post. It is not clear whether Snow will stay,
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but he has indicated he would like to remain in his job.
The front-runner to replace Evans is Mercer Reynolds III, a Cincinnati businessman who raised $ 260 million as the national
finance chairman of Bush's re-election effort. He also played a key role in the president's business career.
Though no leading contender has emerged for Ashcroft's job, speculation has centered on White House counsel Alberto
Gonzalez and former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, now in the private sector.
Naming either man would allow Bush to score points with minorities. Gonzalez is Hispanic and Thompson is black.
"The president will move as quickly as possible" to fill the posts, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Tuesday
night.
Whoever succeeds Ashcroft will be hard-pressed to match the level of attention commanded by the attorney general, who was
not shy about declaring successes in the war on terror.
In addition to his work on terrorism, Ashcroft also dealt with scandals related to corporate governance, most notably the fall
of Enron.
In October 2002, Ashcroft flew to Chicago to announce the arrest of Enaam Arnaout for using an Illinois-based charity,
Benevolence International Foundation, to funnel money to Al Qaeda.
But the case fell apart and Arnaout was convicted only of fraud. The judge described the charges as "sensational and highly
publicized" and specified that "Arnaout does not stand convicted of a terrorism offense."
"Ashcroft was far better at holding press conferences than he was at winning terrorism cases," said Chicago defense attorney
Thomas Durkin, who represents a northern Virginia man charged with involvement with Hamas, a group labeled as terrorist by the
U.S. government.
This September, a federal judge in Detroit threw out convictions of three men who Ashcroft once said were "suspected of
having knowledge" of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Justice Department later retracted Ashcroft's comment and the judge reprimanded Ashcroft for violating a gag order.
Ashcroft will be remembered as "the most powerful and effective attorney general in country's history," said Viet Dinh, a
former assistant attorney general for legal policy under Ashcroft.
By Andrew Zajac and William Neikirk. Mark Silva of the Tribune Washington Bureau contributed to this report.
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The New York Times
March 17, 2006 Friday

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John Ashcroft Sets Up Shop As Well-Connected

Lobbyist
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As attorney general, John Ashcroft was a model of moral rectitude to his

conservative supporters. To his liberal detractors, he was overly
self-righteous. Mr. Ashcroft sees himself simply as a man of integrity, and to
him that is worth a lot.
So in the era of the Jack Abramoff scandal, Mr. Ashcroft has become a
Washington lobbyist, setting himself up as something of an anti-Abramoff and
marketing his insider's knowledge of how Washington works.
To do so, he has amassed a staff of Republican insiders and rented fancy

offices. For corporations seeking contracts from the growing homeland security
budget, Mr. Ashcroft promises to draw on his central role in the war on terror
and in helping set up the Department of Homeland Security. For companies in
trouble with regulators, he says his experience in cracking down on corporate
corruption can provide valuable insights.
''Clients would call in an individual who has a reputation for the highest
level of integrity,'' he said in an interview in his office. ''Those who have
been in government should not be forbidden from helping people deal with
government, which is what I see myself doing.'' In the hourlong interview, Mr.
Ashcroft used the word ''integrity'' scores of times.
Since opening his office in September, he has lined up 21 clients, turning

down two for every one accepted, he said.
Still, some critics find his move from the nation's chief law enforcement
officer to K Street, the heart of the lobbying world, to be as undignified as it
is unusual.
Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight,

said that because Mr. Ashcroft had worked only in government, ''he cannot claim
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to have any business expertise.''
''What is he selling,'' Ms. Brian asked, ''other than connections and

knowledge of how to game the system from being attorney general?''
One of Mr. Ashcroft's newest clients is ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer

data that is increasingly being used by the government to keep tabs on people
within the United States. The company received millions of dollars in contracts
from the Justice Department under Mr. Ashcroft as part of the war on terror and
has now hired him to find more.
''The Ashcroft Group contacted us and we initiated a relationship,'' said

Chuck Jones, a ChoicePoint spokesman. ''He's got a lot of knowledge that could
benefit ChoicePoint.''
Before the 9/11 attacks, there were few commercial opportunities at the
Justice Department. Since then, the department has become a major clearinghouse
for large contracts related to homeland security.
Mr. Ashcroft promises to guide companies through the maze, saying, ''I have
been at the heart of the war on terror.''
In 2001, only 15 companies lobbied officials regarding domestic security.

By 2004, that number had grown to 861, according to the Center for Public
Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington. Total federal spending
aimed at preventing terrorism and other risks, including Homeland Security and
other agencies, is $54.8 billion and is expected to rise to $58 billion in 2007.
''You want someone who knows the inner workings of homeland security
because it's such a tangled mess,'' said Brian W. Ruttenbur, an industry analyst
with Morgan Keegan, a brokerage firm. ''Knowing somebody who understands the
structure and can make introductions is invaluable. When you are a company
you're focusing on making a product, and marketing it to government is very
different.''
After helping prosecute executives at Enron and WorldCom, Mr. Ashcroft also
says he can counsel troubled companies on how to deal with government regulators
and avoid the fate of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that collapsed after
it was indicted in the Enron scandal.
''They need someone who can take threatening circumstances and neutralize
them,'' Mr. Ashcroft said. ''I'll be a lightning rod for people facing serious
challenges.''
Mr. Ashcroft is the only former Bush cabinet member and, by anyone's
reckoning, the only former attorney general to have registered as a lobbyist.
Many former attorneys general have had lucrative careers as political fixers
without calling themselves lobbyists; in that sense, Mr. Ashcroft is being more
transparent than his predecessors.
In a mission statement to prospective clients, he boasts of his

connections. Mr. Ashcroft and ''his talented team,'' the statement says, ''have
developed and cultivated close relationships with leaders in the corporate world
as well as with officials in the top levels of the U.S. Government.''
His staff includes David T. Ayres, his former chief of staff; Juleanna
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Glover Weiss, a Republican lobbyist and a former press secretary to Vice

President Dick Cheney; and a Republican fund-raiser, William C. T. Gaynor II,
who helped raise more than $300 million in the 2004 election. He opened his
office 10 months after leaving the Justice Department.
Fellow Republicans praise his venture. ''To have someone around to guide
you to protect the assets of the corporation, it would be John Ashcroft who you
would want at the table,'' said Donald L. Evans, the former commerce secretary.
''Any C.E.O. in the 21st century would want him.''
After three decades in public office in Missouri and Washington, Mr.

Ashcroft, 63, says he has decided to make up for lost time financially. Before
joining the Bush administration, Mr. Ashcroft was a United States senator, and
the governor and attorney general in Missouri.
His most recent federal financial disclosure statement showed Mr. Ashcroft
to be comfortable but not particularly wealthy, with a portfolio valued at
$500,000 to $1.5 million and a state of Missouri pension. He is also eligible
for a federal pension.
So after having a salary that topped out at $175,700 as attorney general,

Mr. Ashcroft is running his firm and hitting the speakers' circuit, speaking
nearly once a week for a $75,000 fee. In addition, Mr. Ashcroft has been given
equity stakes in private companies that have hired him, betting on a future gain
should they go public. The firm did not disclose the companies.
To maintain his conservative ties, Mr. Ashcroft signed up as a visiting law

professor at Regent University, a Christian graduate school founded by Pat
Robertson, the political evangelical broadcaster. And he is writing a book about
his years in the Bush cabinet, to be published by Center Street, an imprint of
Time Warner Books.
One of his first clients was the software giant Oracle, which was seeking
Justice Department approval for a $5.8 billion takeover of Siebel Systems, its
largest competitor. Oracle hired Mr. Ashcroft, although as attorney general he
opposed a $10 billion Oracle-PeopleSoft merger.
Just a month after the Ashcroft Group came on the scene, the Siebel
takeover sailed through. Oracle declined to comment, as did the Justice
Department.
While Mr. Ashcroft is prohibited by law from contacting the department

directly, he was able to weigh in with strategic advice for Oracle from the
sidelines, although he would not say what that advice was. Mr. Ashcroft said his
only direct contact with the Justice Department was to attend its Christmas
party last year.
Other clients include eBay, Israel Aircraft Industries International, LTU

Technologies and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. For
eBay, the Ashcroft group will provide public relations advice for a patent
infringement case to come before the Supreme Court. The Israeli aerospace
company hired Mr. Ashcroft as it seeks $2 billion in military contracts from
South Korea in competition with Boeing.
LTU Technologies, a software company, hired Mr. Ashcroft to find more

customers for its visual imaging technology, which it already sells to the
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F.B.I. and customs officials.
Mr. Ashcroft declined to identify his other clients except to say, ''It's
not Billy Bob's car wash in Peoria.''
Mr. Ashcroft first dealt with ChoicePoint after 9/11, when the Justice
Department began to press for increased funds for the products that ChoicePoint
sells; databanks full of details about the financial and personal lives of
Americans.
In the war on terror, the government is increasingly turning to these

private intelligence companies. Software from a ChoicePoint subsidiary was used
by the military to help track down Saddam Hussein.
Today, government contracts represent about 14 percent of ChoicePoint's $1

billion in annual revenue. A further opportunity for Mr. Ashcroft arises from an
investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into insider trading by
the company's chief executive and chief operating officer.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information

Center, a Washington digital rights group, said Mr. Ashcroft had the inside
edge.
''As attorney general, Ashcroft created the conditions that allow companies
like ChoicePoint to flourish,'' Mr. Hoofnagle said. ''Ashcroft can open doors
that others can't.''
In counseling troubled companies, Mr. Ashcroft is entering a crowded field

where fees can go as high as $900 an hour and where prominent former government
officials, among them Richard L. Thornburgh, a former attorney general, and
Richard C. Breeden, a former S.E.C. chairman, dominate the business.
''Every major law firm is trying to do special investigations,'' said

Joseph A. Grundfest, a former S.E.C. commissioner.
But Mr. Ashcroft brushes away any doubters. ''I've been stunned at how good
people have been to me,'' he said. ''And that kindness has been reflected in
business opportunities. It's been gratifying, and I'm earning significant
multiples of what I've ever earned before.''
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GRAPHIC: Photos: John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, at the offices of
the Ashcroft Group in Washington. (Photo by David Scull for The New York
Times)(pg. C1)
(pg. C4)Chart: ''Former Attorneys General: Many Hats, But Never A
Lobbyist's''Janet Reno, 67Bill Clinton, 1993-2001Largely retired from public
life but is co-chairwoman of the American Judicature Society's commission on
forensic science and public policy. Lectures on issues of criminal justice
Failed in a 2002 Democratic primary bid for Florida governor.Richard Thornburgh,
73Ronald Reagan and George Bush, 1988-91Counselor in the Washington office of
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham. Served on independent panels
investigating the WorldCom bankruptcy and discredited broadcasts by CBS about
President Bush's National Guard service.Edwin Meese III, 74Ronald Reagan,
1985-88Distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation and visiting fellow at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Writes and speaks frequently on
homeland security, counterterrorism, civil justice reform and immigration. Sits
on several nonprofit boards promoting conservative causes.Griffin Bell, 87Jimmy
Carter, 1977-79Senior counsel at King & Spalding in Atlanta. Named chief judge
for the Military Commissions Review Panel to oversee military tribunals of
accused enemy combatants. Has defended corporations charged with crimes.Ramsey
Clark, 78Lyndon Johnson, 1967-69Defense lawyer and human rights activist.
Founded International Action Center, a New York nonprofit group. Has advised
David Koresh, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Slobodan Milosevic and Muammar
el-Qaddafi. Has served on Saddam Hussein's defense team.Benjamin Civiletti,
70Jimmy Carter, 1979-81Chairman of Venable, a Baltimore law firm. Served on
numerous corporate boards and the Teamsters oversight board. Specializes in
white-collar crime and commercial litigation. Currently on MBNA board.Nicholas
Katzenbach, 84Lyndon Johnson, 1965-66Chairman of MCI. Served as I.B.M. general
counsel for 15 years, and appointed to WorldCom board just before its exit from
bankruptcy. Served on civic boards to combat drug use in New York and analyze
computer trading for the N.Y.S.E.(pg. C4)
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Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)
January 22, 2006, Sunday
Ashcroft reaping rewards of private sector

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The Ashcroft Group
Lobbying client, when hired, fees paid as of Dec. 31, 2005:
American Institute of Certified
WASHINGTON - John Ashcroft has a rich life and a new joke.
Speaking to a group of Harvard students recently, Ashcroft said that the best
career advice he could give would "to be a retired United States attorney
general."
It's certainly been good for Ashcroft, the longtime Missouri politician who
left the Justice Department a year ago after capping more than three decades of
public service with four years of white-hot intensity as a wartime attorney
general in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Public Accountants September 2005
Oracle Corp. October 2005 $220,000
ChoicePoint October 2005 $15,000
Israel Aircraft Industries December 2005 $20,000
LTU Technologies Inc. December 2005 unknown
He spent the past year relaxing and setting up a lucrative Washington

consulting and lobbying shop, joined by several former aides and doing business
as the Ashcroft Group, LLC. He gives a couple of speeches a month at $75,000 a
pop, including one two weeks ago at the Consumer Electronics Show Government
Conference in Las Vegas. He teaches a few weeks a year at Pat Robertson's Regent
University Law School. He's considering writing a book on his years at Justice.
Those who know him describe a man contentedly retired from public life, at
peace with his legacy regardless of the criticism he encountered, enormously
proud and relieved that during his tenure as attorney general, there were no
terrorist attacks on U.S. soil after Sept. 11.
"There's a freedom and flexibility in his life now, and an absence of stress,
that's palpable," said David Ayres, the firm's CEO and a longtime aide to
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Ashcroft reaping rewards of private sector Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)
Ashcroft who also was Missouri's governor and a U.S. senator. "You can see it.
He looks healthy. There's color in his face. His sense of humor is back. The
bounce in his step is back. He enjoys his life."
Headquartered in a high-rent downtown office building with views of the White

House, the Ashcroft Group reported $269,000 in lobbying billings for the last
three months of 2005, according to federal records.
That's just a fraction of the seven-person firm's total earnings since it

opened its doors in mid-2005; Ayres called lobbying "incidental" to the firm's
projects.
Much of the firm's work for its 15 or so clients involves "confidential

strategic advice for big companies with big problems," that doesn't require
lobbying registrations to be filed, said Juleanna Glover Weiss, a lobbyist at
the firm.
"Some of our clients are straight business," Ayres said. "We're involved in a
lot of things that have nothing to do with government."
The firm focuses on issues related to the Justice Department, law enforcement
and homeland security.
That may not be surprising, given Ashcroft's high-profile tenure as attorney

general. But some government watchdogs say they are troubled by the firm's
apparent focus.
"It becomes a questionable situation when these people's past relationships

are exploited," said Alex Knott, spokesman for the nonpartisan Center for Public
Integrity.
David Israelite, a longtime Ashcroft aide who now is president of the

National Music Publishers' Association, scoffed at such criticism, saying
Washington teems with former high-level government officials - including many
former Cabinet officers - who use their expertise and connections to enhance
their earning power after they leave government.
Indeed, more than 2,200 former federal officials have registered as lobbyists
since 1998, a study last year by the Center for Public Integrity found.
Even those who don't register as lobbyists exploit their government service.
Dozens have opened or joined consulting firms that operate at the nexus of
business and government.
The National Law Journal recently reported that another former attorney
general, Benjamin Civiletti, became the first lawyer known to charge clients
$1,000 an hour for his time - a fee rationalized at least in part by his status
as President Carter's top law enforcement official.
Ashcroft, who was not available to comment for this story, has himself
registered as a lobbyist for just one of his firm's clients, software giant
Oracle Corp. He is the first former Bush administration Cabinet officer to
register as a lobbyist.
The firm's most lucrative lobbying client thus far, Oracle paid Ashcroft's
firm $220,000 to help it deal with antitrust issues. The Justice Department
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dropped an antitrust investigation of Oracle, which was begun under Ashcroft,

shortly after Oracle hired him.
Oracle spokeswoman Kim Pineda said: "We're not going to comment on John
Ashcroft and lobbying and what have you."
The Ashcroft Group's other lobbying clients include ChoicePoint, a data

management firm; Israel Aircraft Industries International, the state-owned
industry that needs help in its effort to resell an American weapons system to
South Korea; LTU Technologies Inc., which makes high-tech law
enforcement-related products; and the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants.
Chuck Jones, a spokesman for ChoicePoint, said the firm hired the Ashcroft
Group to help gain entree for its new law enforcement-oriented products to the
Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.
Jones said Ashcroft did not lobby for the firm - by law, Ashcroft cannot
lobby the Justice Department for one year after leaving office - but acted more
as a strategist.
"It's just a matter of available expertise in those areas," Jones said. "He's
clearly qualified."
Jones wouldn't say whether Ashcroft's advice had helped ChoicePoint win
business, but said the company was happy with his work and planned an ongoing
relationship.
An official from the Israeli aircraft firm declined to comment, and an LTU
official did not return calls seeking comment.
"One of the things John wanted to do was continue to help in homeland

security by helping companies with innovative technology that can assist law
enforcement ... in tracking terrorists or catching criminals," Ayres said.
"We're familiar with the needs there. We've been surprised by some of the things
available in the private sector that the enforcement community is unaware of."
The accountants association hired the Ashcroft Group because Weiss, their
existing lobbyist, moved there from her old firm, said Anne Sittmann, the
association's spokeswoman.
For Ashcroft, a successful business would be his first significant

opportunity - at age 63 - to earn a big payday. Outside a two-year stint with a
St. Louis law firm, Ashcroft was on the public payroll from 1973, when he became
Missouri state auditor, until he left the Justice Department.
"I think when he was attorney general that was the highest-paying job he'd
ever had in his life," Israelite said. Ashcroft's last salary as attorney
general was $175,700.
The move to the private sector has allowed Ashcroft to rest for the first
time in years, say those who know him.
After all, they note, beyond the normal stresses of a career in politics and
policy, his tenure as attorney general came during a searing time in American
history. The job could not help but take its toll.
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Ashcroft and his wife, Janet, sold their modest Capitol Hill rowhouse last
summer for $1.1 million and moved to a home in suburban Virginia. They also own
a large plot in a small town a couple of hours' drive from Washington, where
Ashcroft likes to clear his head by clearing the land, fishing and riding
motorcycles.
Janet Ashcroft, a former law professor at Howard University, is updating a

legal textbook she wrote, doing volunteer work, doting on her grandchild and
preparing for another. And they still have their farm in southwest Missouri.
Ashcroft attended the swearing-in at the State Department last summer of Ann
Wagner, a longtime Missouri political operative, as U.S. ambassador to
Luxembourg. Those who talked to him there said he seemed well-recovered from the
demands of a 24/7 wartime job. "I remember the more light-hearted days on the
campaign in '94, when he was a private citizen before," said David James, a
former spokesman for Ashcroft's Senate office and campaigns. "It was more of
that. John Ashcroft is very funny when it comes to self-deprecating humor. He
was in that shtick again."
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Robert Ash Assistant Professor

Distinguished Professor in the
John Ashcroft
Schools of Law and Government
Associate Professor and Director
James M. Boland
of Legal Research and Writing
Jeffrey A. Brauch Dean and Professor
Eleanor Brown Associate Professor
Reed Larson Professor of Labor
Bruce N. Cameron
Law
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Douglas H. Cook
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Associate Professor and
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Director, Family Mediation
Curtis
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James Davids Visiting Assistant Professor
Eric DeGroff Professor
James J. Duane Professor
Eugene C. Elser Professor
Steven W. Fitschen Research Professor of Law
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Bradley P. Jacob Associate Professor
Joseph N. Kickasola Professor
Assistant Director of Legal
Janis L. Kirkland
Research and Writing
John Brown McCarty Professor
Lynne Marie Kohm
of Family Law
Benjamin V. Madison, III Associate Professor
Kathleen A. McKee
Director, Civil Litigation Clinic
Associate Dean of
James E. Murphy
Administration
Director of the Law Library and
Charles H. Oates
Professor
C. Scott Pryor Professor
Chris Rehn Assistant Professor
Michael P. Schutt Director, Institute for Christian
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Judge Robert M. M. Seto Professor Emeritus
Craig A. Stern Professor
John P. Tuskey Assistant Professor
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Forbes
November 13, 2006
Names For Sale

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HIGHLIGHT: Leaving public office for the private sector is a lucrative

proposition for someone with name recognition.
Leaving public office for the private sector is a lucrative proposition for
someone with name recognition.
Bill Clinton
The former President has done good (working on behalf of tsunami and AIDS
victims) and done very well (for himself) since leaving the White House in
January 2001, when his legal bills topped $10 million. Last year he reportedly
pulled in at least $7.5 million giving 43 speeches. His advance for the
autobiography My Life (Random House, 2004) probably ran to $10 million. Still,
Clinton's biggest windfall may be his role as an adviser to Yucaipa Cos., the
private equity funds run by billionaire Ronald Burkle. His role: In exchange for
a piece of the action, he adds credibility to Burkle's social-change funds,
which raise money from, say, California's pension plan and invest in
supermarkets in poor neighborhoods.
Al Gore
Since his near-election six years ago the former veep has pulled in lots of
cash. In 2001 he became a senior adviser to Google. If any part of his
compensation was in stock and options, it is worth an immense sum today. As
founder and chief executive, Gore also owns a large chunk of Current TV, an
interactive cable network, which just cut a deal with Yahoo to enable its
audience, currently 30 million households, to upload YouTube-like video via
eight Web-based channels. (A new deal with the U.K.'s BSkyB network could add
another 8.2 million.) Gore also sits on the board of Apple Computer and owns
60,000 options worth $2 million. Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, has 600,000
copies in print; the movie version has raked in $24 million at the box office.
Proceeds from both go to charity.
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MadelEine Albright
The nation's first female Secretary of State left public life in early 2001.
Today the Albright Group in Washington, D.C. brokers agreements between
corporations and governments, helps raise money for acquisitions and assesses
political and economic risks--for example, in the Middle East. When Latvia
decided to ban junk food and sweets from its schools, Albright protested on
behalf of client Coca-Cola in a letter she wrote to President Vaira
Vike-Freiberga. (She didn't cave, however.) Albright has penned two bestsellers,
Madam Secretary (Miramax Books, 2003) and The Mighty and the Almighty
(HarperCollins, 2006). Her fee on the podium averages $80,000.
Richard Clarke
Ex-counterterrorism czar under Clinton and Bush, he advises on cybersecurity

and protection for proposed LNG terminals and other infrastructure via his Good
Harbor Consulting. His Against All Enemies (Free Press, 2004) has sold well. Yet
his biggest moneymaker to date has to be his blind pool offerings--empty shells
that go public and use the proceeds to buy unspecified businesses. Clarke is
chairman of Good Harbor Partners Acquisition Corp., raising $55 million in March
at up to $10 a unit. The main buyers were hedge funds, one of which,
unpropitiously, was the ill-starred Amaranth. Good Harbor has yet to make an
acquisition. Clarke has warrants for 2 million shares at $5 each.
Dan Quayle
The onetime number two to George H. W. Bush left Washington in 1992 to write
memoirs: Standing Firm (HarperCollins, 1994), The American Family
(HarperCollins, 1996) and Worth Fighting For (W Publishing Group, 1999). He took
to speechifying (fee: $30,000) during the late 1990s. In 2000 he joined Stephen
Feinberg's hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management as nonexecutive chairman of
the board. He sealed the 2003 purchase of Nippon Credit Bank. As a rainmaker he
has likely made tens of millions of dollars, given that the fund's assets under
management are up 80% from 2003 to $16.5 billion at year-end 2005.
John Ashcroft
The U.S. Attorney General in the first Bush term is now deploying his
connections at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security as chief
consultant for the Ashcroft Group. The company reportedly earned $1.4 million in
lobbying and consulting fees between February and August for work related to
issues of security, government relations, antitrust regulation and corporate
ethics. Clients include Oracle, Choicepoint, Ebay, Israel Aircraft Industries
International, AT&T, VeriSign and the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants. Ashcroft's political memoir, Never Again (Hachette, 2006), just hit
the shelves. He does a few dozen speeches a year at a reported fee of $75,000
apiece.
Colin Powell
Since resigning as secretary of state in late 2004, Powell has been a popular
public speaker (fee: in the neighborhood of $90,000). The former U.S. Army
general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs did well the first time out of
political office, pulling in a reported $6.5 million advance for his
autobiography, My American Journey (Random House, 1995), which has sold 2.1
million copies. Such sums are probably eclipsed by his middleman's take as a
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limited partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley
venture titan.
William Cohen
A Republican who served as President Clinton's Secretary of Defense, Cohen

left office in 2001 with, reportedly, tens of thousands of dollars in
credit-card debt. He's probably out of the red now. The Cohen Group helps
defense contractors and biotech firms get business. Among others, Iridium has
reportedly anted up $400,000 since 2004 for lobbying Congress and the Pentagon;
the city of Jacksonville, Fla. paid a reported $490,000 to fight job cuts from a
proposed base closing. Cohen's private equity group, TCG Financial, focuses on
M&A in the defense industry. Cohen is a regular, paid CNN contributor on world
affairs and sits on several boards, such as CBS. He is also a prolific writer:
Ten books, including two volumes of poetry, have been published. As a money
generator, though, the sword is mightier than the pen.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 2, 2005, Monday
Ashcroft and aides form consulting firm

BYLINE: By Deirdre Shesgreen
LENGTH: 487 words
WASHINGTON -- John Ashcroft plans to use his expertise as the nation's former
top cop and his political connections as Missouri's former U.S. senator in a
business venture that will offer a mix of lobbying savvy and law-enforcement
know-how.
The former Republican lawmaker, who resigned as U.S. attorney general last
November, is forming a consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group, with one of his
long-time political aides, David Ayres.
The pair have also hired another former Ashcroft aide, Juleanna Glover Weiss,
to join them in the venture, which they expect to have up and running this
month.
The firm will aim to help "big companies with big problems," Glover Weiss
said. That means they will help businesses do everything from push legislative
wish lists on Capitol Hill to navigate the new post-Enron laws governing
corporate malfeasance.
"Ashcroft and Ayres have overseen a $ 20 billion law enforcement entity and
they've led teams that have set new precedents in... the drug enforcement area,
terrorism protection and a new corporate governance regime," she said. "The
model with the Ashcroft team will be to advise corporate officers or board
members on how to address company difficulties with integrity and wisdom."
As a politician-turned-consultant, Ashcroft will be following a well-worn

path in Washington. Ex-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., for example,
who lost his 2004 re-election bid, is lobbying at a major law firm. Ashcroft
will not be able to lobby the executive branch until next year, under government
ethics rules.
The firm's team members have formidable resumes.
Ashcroft, an extremely popular figure among conservatives and extremely

polarizing among liberals, transformed the Justice Department in the wake of the
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, from one focused on after-the-fact criminal
prosecutions to one bent on preventing a second terrorist attack.
Ayres served at Ashcroft's side for four years at the Justice Department as
his chief of staff, the same post he held when the Missouri Republican was in
the Senate.
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Glover Weiss served as Ashcroft's senior policy adviser from 1996 to 1999.
Now a lobbyist at another Washington firm, she also worked for Vice President
Dick Cheney, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and presidential candidate Steve
Forbes.
Ashcroft's move signals the end of political career spanning more than 25
years. He served two terms as Missouri's governor before being elected to the
Senate, and then serving as attorney general.
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The Washington Post
October 27, 2005 Thursday

Final Edition
Under Bush, the Revolving Door Gains Speed

BYLINE: Judy Sarasohn
SECTION: A Section; A25 , SPECIAL INTERESTS Judy Sarasohn
LENGTH: 840 words
A coalition of do-gooder groups has issued a report listing a startling

number of folks who have spun through the revolving door, making stops in
industry, the administration and Congress. It all contributes to a cynicism
about government -- who is making policy and why, and who is making money off
public service.
More importantly, the Revolving Door Working Group says the report, "A
Matter of Trust," provides recommendations on how to get the spinning door under
control and restore public confidence in government.
Former President Bill Clinton is criticized for first imposing strong

post-government employment rules and then rescinding them at the end of his
administration, but the report suggests more industry folks have moved into the
government during the Bush administration.
Some of the examples: David Lauriski, spent 30 years in the mining industry
before being tapped as the Labor Department's assistant secretary of mine safety
and health -- he resigned last year to work for a mine-industry consulting
company. Jacqueline Glassman worked for DaimlerChrysler before being appointed
chief counsel and then deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration.
At the Agriculture Department, Dale Moore was at the National Cattlemen's

Beef Association before becoming chief of staff to the secretary. The
undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Rey, who oversees
the Forest Service, was a vice president of the American Forest and Paper
Association; Mary Waters, assistant secretary for congressional relations was a
legislative counsel for ConAgra Foods.
At the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette was assistant secretary for

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Thursday
congressional affairs after lobbying on behalf of mining and oil interests. Last
year, he joined Ford Motor Co. Former deputy administrator of the EPA, Linda
Fisher, had been an executive at Monsanto Co. and left the agency in 2003 for
DuPont.
Among the group's proposals: All ethics matters for Congress and its staff
should be handled by a single independent agency that can issue and implement
rules, and subpoena witnesses. The group also suggests that appointees be
required to recuse themselves on matters involving their former employers or
clients for the 24 months prior to government service, and that the one-year
cooling off period be extended to two years to prevent lawmakers and their staff
from lobbying former colleagues. During that period, they wouldn't be allowed to
formulate lobbying strategy, which they may do now.
"Two years is one session of Congress, so it helps break that close network
of friends," said Craig Holman, a Public Citizen lobbyist and member of the
working group, which also includes Common Cause, Defenders of Wildlife, the
Government Accountability Project and the Center for Science in the Public
Interest, among others.
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) are spearheading
legislation that includes some of the suggestions.
Holman insisted that the proposals are realistic and not designed to prevent
lobbying as a career option for government officials. "I'm a lobbyist, and I
have no interest in shutting down lobbying," Holman said.
The Texas-based law firm Locke Liddell & Sapp, where Supreme Court nominee
and White House counsel Harriet Miers once was a partner, has announced the
opening of its public affairs shop, Locke Liddell Strategies, in Washington.
Three veteran GOP lobbyists are working in Washington for Locke Liddell: Roy
Coffee, former Austin director of state-federal relations for then-governor
George W. Bush; Dave DiStefano, former chief of staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio);
and Phil Rivers, former chief of staff to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).
BellSouth, General Electric, FM Policy Watch and Genworth are on the client
list.
"There's no relationship with the timing of Harriet Miers's nomination. The

firm has wanted to open an office for some time," Rivers said.
One of the prominent recent travelers through the revolving door is John D.
Ashcroft, President Bush's first attorney general, and before that a senator and
governor from Missouri. He formed his consulting company, the Ashcroft Group,
this spring with his former chief of staff, David Ayres, and former Senate
adviser Juleanna Glover Weiss.
Although his role will generally be in "strategic consulting on high-stakes

matters," according to Weiss, a former press secretary for Vice President
Cheney, Ashcroft last week dipped his toes into the lobbying waters by
registering to lobby on antitrust matters for the Oracle Corp., the world's
largest database software company.
Oracle is acquiring Siebel Systems Inc. On Monday, Oracle and Siebel

revealed the Justice Department has requested additional information. Weiss said
Ashcroft is advising Oracle on "negotiating the regulatory hurdles," but so far
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hasn't visited Capitol Hill on the company's behalf.
Ashcroft is still covered by federal ethics restrictions and is precluded

from lobbying his friends at Justice.
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Congressional Quarterly Weekly
December 2, 2005
The Oracle Has Spoken

BYLINE: Shawn Zeller, CQ Staff
LENGTH: 252 words
John Ashcroft's fledgling lobbying firm notched its first victory when it
prevailed upon the Justice Department to approve a big tech industry merger
involving Oracle Corp. late last month. What's more, it comes one year after an
effort to derail a different Oracle merger that Ashcroft joined during his final
year as the attorney general.
The $6 billion deal joins software giant Oracle and its Silicon Valley
cousin, Siebel Systems Inc. The Ashcroft Group registered as Oracle's lobbying
representative in October, and although the former attorney general is still
forbidden by law from lobbying Justice directly, he was able to weigh in with
strategic advice on getting the deal approved.
In February 2004, one year before Ashcroft left, Justice sued --

unsuccessfully -- to block Oracle's previous merger, with Peoplesoft Inc. A top
Ashcroft lieutenant, Thomas Barnett, captained the earlier suit -- and was the
person who ultimately had to sign off on the new Oracle merger because at the
moment he leads Justice's Antitrust Division.
But the Ashcroft Group wants it understood that its campaign on Oracle's
behalf bears no more than a passing resemblance to the earlier antitrust
exertions of Ashcroft's Justice Department. "These were different fields,
different companies," says top spokeswoman Juleanna Glover Weiss. "And a
different set of circumstances."
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The Associated Press
August 17, 2006 Thursday 8:30 PM GMT
AP Enterprise: Lawmaker helped brother's lobbying clients

BYLINE: By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 1357 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Three times this year, a lobbyist sought help from Rep. Christopher Cannon for his clients and got it. The lobbyist was the
congressman's brother, Joseph Cannon.
The Utah lawmaker acknowledges helping his brother's clients, including pressing Congress last month to intervene in a
business dispute over an Internet contract estimated to be worth as much as $1.3 billion.
"If my wife decided to lobby, then we would probably say, 'No talking to my office.' I just don't see my brother in the same
category," Cannon, R-Utah, told The Associated Press.
Cannon has a financial interest in his brother's success: The lobbyist owes him more than $250,000, according to the
lawmaker's financial disclosure reports.
There are no U.S. laws prohibiting relatives from lobbying lawmakers. House ethics rules require lawmakers to behave in
ways that "reflect creditably" on Congress, avoid any special favors for family members and avoid the appearance of conflicts of
interest.
"A lot of people I know are lobbyists," said Rep. Cannon, who has been elected five times. "I would put Joe in that category,
not as a family member."
Some ethics experts rejected Cannon's distinction.
"It's an obvious conflict of interest," said Wendell Rawls Jr., acting executive director at the Washington-based Center for
Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group. "It's an obvious use of an insider position to further the best interest of a family
member."
Fred Werthheimer, head of the Democracy 21 group that endorses lobbying and campaign finance reforms, said Cannon has
created appearance problems months before midterm elections inside a Congress already tainted by lobbying scandals and bribery
investigations.
"When a member of Congress starts taking action based on the requests of a brother or spouse, you create the impression that
the action may be taking place to provide a financial benefit for the family rather than to carry out proper public policy," he said.
"This is the kind of appearance problem no member needs."
Dozens of Republican and Democratic lawmakers have children, siblings or spouses who work as lobbyists. Some told the
AP they prohibit relatives, even siblings, from lobbying them or anyone working for them.
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., whose sister is a lobbyist for nuclear and energy interests, does not allow her to lobby his office.
Likewise, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay limited access to his office by his estranged brother, Randy, after 1996,
when Randy DeLay's lobbying activities prompted an ethics complaint that later was dismissed. DeLay, R-Texas, left Congress
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earlier this year under an ethics cloud.
Joseph Cannon, who also is chairman of the Utah Republican party, is his congressman-brother's one-time business partner.
He leads a team of 10 lobbyists at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, a law and lobbying firm. He represents nearly a dozen
lobbying clients and specializes in environmental cases.
In the Internet dispute, Rep. Cannon joined with three other lawmakers last month at his brother's urging to press for a
congressional hearing. They signed a letter that expressed concerns about a proposed contract which is subject to approval by the
Bush administration between the Internet's primary oversight body and VeriSign Inc., a $4.2 billion California company.
Joseph Cannon is a lobbyist for a competing company, Network Solutions Inc. That company sells Web addresses and
opposes price increases it would pay to VeriSign under the pending agreement.
"My job was to talk with Chris," the lobbyist brother told AP. "After I talked with him, the fact is, we hardly ever talked about
it after that. I don't spend much time lobbying my brother on things. I can't use him just because he's my brother to go do
something; it's got to be something he's got a legitimate interest in."
Rep. Cannon, chairman of the House Judiciary commercial law subcommittee, said he has closely followed Internet issues.
"He had a client. I had an interest," the lawmaker explained.
Joseph Cannon's lobbying firm helped draft the July 7 letter his brother signed asking Rep. Lamar Smith, who heads the
House Judiciary Internet subcommittee, to hold a hearing. Smith, R-Texas, said he has not yet decided whether to conduct such an
oversight hearing.
Joseph Cannon said he has lobbied his brother on other occasions, twice involving higher education issues. Rep. Cannon's
home district in Provo, Utah, includes Brigham Young University, which last year paid Joseph Cannon roughly $70,000 as its
Washington lobbyist. Both brothers graduated from the university.
Joseph Cannon sought his brother's help earlier this year establishing a "complexity center" involving Brigham Young and the
University of Utah. Joseph Cannon said it was to be run by a defense contractor, System of Systems Analytics Inc. of Chantilly,
Va.. The contractor employs Joseph Cannon's Utah-based company, The Western Standard Publishing Company Inc., as a
subcontractor.
Joseph Cannon said he disclosed his own business relationship with the project, which both he and Rep. Cannon said was
scuttled in its early stages.
Rep. Cannon also favored a bill earlier this year to exempt religious colleges from certain accreditation guidelines, such as
rules on discriminating against gay students and teachers and requirements for courses that conflict with the schools' philosophy.
Joseph Cannon said he sought his brother's support on behalf of Brigham Young. The House bill passed on a voice vote.
Joseph Cannon said he also introduced leaders of the Israel Policy Forum, a pro-Jewish group, to his brother and other
Republicans the day fighting broke out in Lebanon earlier this summer.
"It doesn't make sense not to approach him just the way I would approach anybody else," Joseph Cannon said. "I believe his
response would have been exactly the same if ... someone else from my firm had talked with him."
As for the unpaid debt to his brother, Joseph Cannon said it stems from his own unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate 14
years ago.
Joseph Cannon said he approached his brother about the Internet agreement as part of a behind-the-scenes campaign to
convince lawmakers on some Senate and House committees the deal would be bad for consumers.
The agreement would permit VeriSign to increase the wholesale price it charges companies like Network Solutions for each
Internet dot-com address from $6 per year to $7.86 or more if it can justify further price increases.
In the weeks after Network Solutions hired the lobbying firm, two lobbyists there both Democrats contributed a combined
$1,500 to Rep. Cannon's Republican campaign.
One of those lobbyists, Thomas O'Donnell, worked closely with Rep. Cannon's office on behalf of Network Solutions after
June 15. O'Donnell gave $1,000 to Rep. Cannon on May 17.
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O'Donnell said he gave the money because Rep. Cannon was his lobbying partner's brother and because he supports Rep.
Cannon's moderate views on immigration reform, a key issue in Cannon's primary. O'Donnell said Joseph Cannon did not solicit
the contribution.
Network Solutions said it was unaware of Joseph Cannon's family ties when it hired his firm in April to rally opposition to the
Internet agreement.
"I, personally, and no one at Network Solutions had any idea," said the company's chief counsel, Jonathon Nevett. "I had
never heard of Chris Cannon or Joe Cannon."
Nevett has publicly praised the lawmakers' request for a congressional hearing.
Network Solutions spent $80,000 on lobbying last year; VeriSign spent at least $440,000 over the same period, Senate
records show.
VeriSign's Washington lobbyists include former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Ashcroft's former chief of staff, David
Ayres. VeriSign's political action committee donated $1,000 to Rep. Smith in April and $1,000 to Cannon in November.
Rep. Cannon said his relationships with his brother's clients can be discerned by reviewing congressional lobbying reports. He
did not mention in his July 7 letter that he was acting at his brother's request.
"The rules really come down to disclosure," the lawmaker said. "It's easy to make the connections you made between me and
my brother."
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August 12, 2006, Saturday
Ashcroft Finds Private-Sector Niche

BYLINE: Ellen Nakashima; Washington Post Staff Writer
LENGTH: 1170 words
DATELINE: United States
Former U.S. attorney general John D. Ashcroft, whose tenure saw the creation of a burgeoning homeland security industry,
has emerged as the highest-ranking former Bush administration official to lobby for and invest in companies in that field.
Nearly two years after he left the Justice Department for a glass-and-marble office tower six blocks away, Ashcroft is building
a lucrative consulting company helping security and other firms find business with federal agencies. Federal spending on homeland
security is expected to reach nearly $60 billion in fiscal 2007, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
"It's a continuation of the aspiration I have that our nation have access to the best possible resources to fight terror, whether
domestic or international," Ashcroft, founder of the Ashcroft Group LLC, said during a phone interview from his 150-acre cattle
farm in rural Missouri, where he was spending a working vacation.
During his tenure, Ashcroft championed expanded federal powers to conduct surveillance in counterterrorism investigations.
Now, he said, he wants the intelligence and law enforcement agencies to be aided by the tech world's "best of breed."
In all, Ashcroft's firm has 30 clients, many of which make products or technology aimed at homeland security, and about a
third of which the firm has not disclosed, to protect client confidentiality. The firm also has equity stakes in eight client companies,
a trend the company plans to continue as it gradually turns its focus toward venture capital.
Privacy experts and civil libertarians, who battled Ashcroft's policies to enlarge surveillance powers, warned that the types of
businesses promoted by the former attorney general and other lobbyists are fast becoming a de facto branch of the government,
beyond traditional oversight. They question whether the security offered by these firms, some of which specialize in analysis of
government and private data, is balanced by adequate protection for civil liberties.
In an era of unprecedented collection and sharing of data between the government and the private sector, "we need checks and
balances to match that paradigm shift," said Peter Swire, who served as a privacy counselor for the Clinton administration and now
teaches law at Ohio State University.
Ashcroft's client list includes Nanodetex Corp. in New Mexico, which offers technology that can detect airborne pathogens
such as anthrax or liquid explosives such as the type authorities say a group of terror suspects planned to use to blow up passenger
jets between Britain and the United States. Another is Exegy Inc., a Missouri firm that does high-speed data mining.
Innova Holdings Inc. makes software that can remotely command robots and drones, or unmanned vehicles, the sort that
police borders or fly above the mountains and valleys of Pakistan and Afghanistan searching for al-Qaeda cells. The company,
which signed with Ashcroft's firm last week, has developed a technology for robots that will undertake a NASA repair mission to
the Hubble Space Telescope.
Still another client is Dulles Research LLC, a small Northern Virginia firm that claims its technology can detect illicit
networks like the group of men who went on to hijack four planes on Sept. 11, 2001. The firm says its technology detects the threat
of terrorist behavior by analyzing people's actions -- not their identities, an effort to safeguard individuals' privacy.
"What network-analysis technology does is not look at the individual, but rather at the gravity and weight of relationships
between people who appear to be doing something harmful to our interests or in opposition to the law," said Drew Eginton, Dulles
Research's founder and chief executive.
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For instance, he said, out of a data set that includes transactions of 20 million people with one another, "What you're looking
for are the seven people who are doing something normal people don't do, simultaneously buying tickets to the same town with
money orders, or sequentially visiting the same place one month apart using airline tickets that were paid with cash, or switching
cellphones and every 60 days placing a 10-second voice mail to a person who went to that individual's school in Malaysia. We're
looking for these very shadowy and unusual interactions that, based on a prior statistical case, predict the likelihood of trouble.''
Behavioral pattern analysis has a good track record in the world of credit card fraud, where "millions" of transactions can be
analyzed to extract patterns of illicit behavior, said Jim Dempsey, policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The problem with detecting terrorist patterns of behavior is that there are not millions of terrorist transactions that can be
analyzed on which to base a reliable model, he said.
What is the recourse, Dempsey asked, for people who are wrongly identified and targeted?
But Eginton said the point of using statistical analysis is to avoid the "false positive."
"We do not have a mature and complete mathematical understanding of what these people and networks will do," he said.
"But we do have an understanding."
Another Ashcroft client is ChoicePoint Inc., a data marketer that gathers public records and sells access to them. Though the
company already had a contract with the Justice Department dating to 1998, last year it signed on with Ashcroft's firm to help it
connect with "the right people within the agencies who could match up our capabilities with their needs," said James Lee,
ChoicePoint's chief marketing officer.
When it comes to privacy, Ashcroft, a 54-year-old Republican and former U.S. senator and Missouri governor, said there are
"real reasons" why the government should not be in the business of warehousing information. "The private sector does a better job
of maintaining and developing information," he said. Another reason, he said, is Americans "don't want government to have access
to any more information than necessary."
The Ashcroft Group complies with federal disclosure rules, Ashcroft said. It has disclosed the identities of 17 companies and
two trade groups that it represents before Congress or the executive branch. The other clients, for which the firm does not do
government work, are covered by non-disclosure agreements.
The firm reported receiving $1.4 million in lobbying fees in the past six months. But that is a small fraction of its earnings. It
offers strategic consulting and is set to launch a service to help companies prevent and clean up data breaches.
These days, Ashcroft, whose forthcoming book discusses his experience as attorney general, is relaxed and energized. "Ninety
percent" of the people who approach him, he said, thank him for his service. "I think that people have the sense," he said, "that
regardless of whether they agree with me or not, they knew that I was doing what I thought I ought to do."
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The Washington Post
March 6, 2007 Tuesday

Final Edition
Lobbying Bill Sparks Populist Uprising -- on Both Sides

BYLINE: Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
SECTION: A Section; A17 , JEFFREY H. BIRNBAUM
LENGTH: 1211 words
The National Right to Life Committee and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) are locking horns -- not over abortion, but over
whether thousands of top executive branch officials should have to disclose the names of people who lobby them.
Driven by the over-the-top, clandestine lobbying of Bush administration officials by now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has unanimously approved the Executive Branch Reform Act.
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she backs the measure, which would require senior bureaucrats
to report quarterly whom they speak to about government actions, and that she expects it to get a vote in the House.
But Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, is vowing to stop the bill at all costs. He
thinks it would discourage officials from meeting with citizens, including his own members. That makes it downright
undemocratic. And he is consistent: He led a coalition that helped kill broad ethics reform legislation last year because it would
have imposed a similar type of reporting requirement on grass-roots lobbying.
Grass-roots and executive-branch disclosure "are of a kind," Johnson said. "They both have as a purpose to insulate
policymakers from ordinary citizens and citizen groups in order to enhance the influence of certain inside-the-Beltway elites." He
points out, for example, that communications from lawmakers and other elected officials would not be disclosed under the
Waxman proposal.
Johnson is recruiting activists and has lined up the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America (CWA) as
allies. "We believe this bill poses a tremendous threat to any American who wants to communicate with a member of the executive
branch," said Shari Rendall, a lobbyist for the conservative CWA. "The burdens of this bill are onerous on government officials
and intimidating to the public."
The legislation's advocates are also preparing to fight and they hope eventually to expand reporting to include lobbyists'
meetings with lawmakers. Liberal watchdog groups such as Public Citizen, Common Cause and Democracy 21 yearn to give the
public a clearer picture of who asks what from government officials all over the nation's capital.
But for now they are content to start with the executive branch. "It's not a burdensome reporting requirement, and it is
important information for the public to know," said Craig Holman, lobbyist for Public Citizen's Congress Watch.
Johnson and his allies are just as determined and are trying to spark protests nationwide with e-mail such as this: "Waxman
wants to sell his bill as an expansion of 'government in the sunshine,' [but it's really] a tanning salon: a structure in which executive
branch officials would be isolated from the real world and then exposed to intense, artificial and unhealthy radiation generated by
privileged inside players such as himself."
Not waiting for Congress to impose new disclosure laws, shareholder activists have persuaded some of the nation's largest
companies to disclose their political spending on such things as issue campaigns. General Electric, Hewlett-Packard and American
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Electric Power recently agreed to report how much they give trade associations for politics and lobbying. Home Depot said it
would report "soft money" gifts such as corporate donations to political advocacy groups.
The decision was announced by the Center for Political Accountability, Trillium Asset Management and Green Century
Capital Management. The four companies join 15 other major corporations that have adopted increased transparency policies since
2005.
Separately, Aegon USA, a financial services firm, has begun to list on its campaign finance reports the events at which it
gives money to politicians, a disclosure not required by law. It said its $5,000 donation to the leadership fund of Sen. Thomas R.
Carper (D-Del.) was made during a "ski weekend." Anyone see a trend?
Qorvis Communications, a fast-growing D.C. PR shop, is still waiting for the $3 million, or 13 percent of its revenue, that
Saudi Arabia owes it from last year. But Qorvis managing partner Michael J. Petruzzello said he is confident that the payment will
show up soon, now that the Saudis have a new U.S. ambassador, Adel al-Jubeir.
"I'm not at all concerned," Petruzzello said. "It will all be resolved imminently." Then again, delays are common when
countries are involved. "This is not the last time that they or any of my government accounts have been late," he added. "That's
what happens when you work with governments."
Last week, former attorney general John D. Ashcroft blasted Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed acquisition of XM Satellite
Radio Holdings on antitrust grounds. He is a consultant, no surprise, to the merger's main opponent, the National Association of
Broadcasters.
Thing is, XM says that Ashcroft's office also approached it to see if it would hire him to help with the merger fight, but the
company turned him down. XM accuses Ashcroft of "parroting" NAB's views for money, a charge Ashcroft and NAB deny.
Separately, former senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) says he has acted out of "passion" to accept the chairmanship of the
Poker Players Alliance, an organization of 160,000 gambling enthusiasts that wants to reverse a law banning online poker.
Dutko Worldwide has hired Judy Lemons, a former chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Andy
Wright, former chief of staff to Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.). The Watts Consulting Group of former congressman J.C. Watts
(R-Okla.) has added Steve Pruitt, once the top Democratic aide at the House Budget Committee.
Public Strategies Inc. has hired Lee Godown, former chief of staff to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.). Joshua F. Hurvitz,
former legislative director for Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), has joined American Continental Group. And ML Strategies, the
consulting affiliate of law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, has hired Jeremy Rabinovitz, former chief of staff
to Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.).
David E. Yudin, former director of the city of Chicago's Washington office and more recently legislative counsel to Sen.
Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), has joined B&D Consulting as a senior adviser.
Brad Woodhouse, a longtime political operative with strong ties to liberal causes, was named president of Americans United
for Change, replacing Karen Olick, a former chief of staff to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Olick joined the media and
communications firm Squier Knapp Dunn.
Apparently thinking ahead, XM Satellite Radio last summer hired as a senior vice president Jeff Blattner, who was chief
counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee staff of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and also helped run the Justice
Department's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s. XM is involved in a huge antitrust effort to win government approval
to merge with Sirius Satellite Radio.
And on the GOP side, Dan Meyer of the Duberstein Group, a top aide to former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), will
replace Brian Conklin as the White House's chief lobbyist in the House.
Send e-mail to kstreet@washpost.com.
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City
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was: were:
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of all lobbying related income from the client (including all accounting method. See instructions for description of options.
payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying
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activities on behalf of the client).
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Washington, DC 20515 Washington. DC 20510
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Overview congressional districts Total dollars: $1,260,578 Top 5 Products or Services Sold
Total number of contractors: 1
Overview by state Total number of transactions: 24 Communications Services $689,760
Get list of contractors Automated Information System Design
$204,800
BY CONTRACTING AGENCY Get list of transactions and Integration Services
Overview by major agency Miscellaneous Items $138,712
Extent of Competition ADP Telecommunications and Transmission
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Services
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By competition type $58,133
Equipment, Except Airborne
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Engineers Civil Program Financing)
one bid
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competition
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Hollen)
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Norton)
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$35,534
Ruppersberger)
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November 12, 2007

U.S. Edition
An Ex-A.G. Avoids Caller Id

BYLINE: Michael Isikoff
SECTION: PERISCOPE; SURVEILLANCE; Pg. 12 Vol. 150 No. 20 ISSN: 0028-9604
LENGTH: 402 words
The nation's telecommunications companies want immunity from lawsuits related

to their participation in President Bush's warrantless-surveillance program, and
to get it, they've been mounting an aggressive Capitol Hill lobbying campaign.
Last week they played what they hoped would be their trump card: a letter
backing their position from ex-attorney-general John Ashcroft and three other
former top Justice officials. The quartet seemed to have special credibility on
the issue: they had all once threatened to resign because of concerns about the
top-secret spying program's legality. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch called the
letter "very interesting," adding that the telecoms deserved protection from
costly lawsuits for their service to the intelligence community.
But the correspondence left out some pertinent details. Ash-croft's

consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group, registered last year to lobby for AT&T--one
of the three big telecoms, along with Verizon and Sprint, spear-heading the
lobbying campaign. Patrick Philbin, who joined James Comey and Jack Goldsmith as
cosigners on the letter, was a principal outside lawyer for Verizon prior to
joining the Justice Department in 2001; he's now a partner at Kirkland & Ellis,
whose Web site lists Verizon as one of its main clients. "I find this very
troubling," says Cindy Cohen, chief counsel for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, which has sued AT&T in San Francisco. "They ought to be writing
letters to Congress about what the administration was doing wrong rather than
trying to cover it up."
A spokeswoman for Ashcroft, Juleanna Glover, says the former A.G. has done
"no work" personally lobbying for AT&T on the telecom immunity issue. His firm,
she says, was hired as a "strategic consultant" on other matters, principally
related to state regulatory disputes. Glover said that Ashcroft wrote the letter
in his capacity as the former A.G. and because he believes it outlines a
"principled position" for Congress. Philbin did not respond to requests for
comment. But an associate of his, who asked not to be identified because of
political sensitivities, says that Philbin disclosed his legal work for Verizon
in a brief bio he presented to the Judiciary Committee prior to his testimony
about the issue. In any case, says the associate, "there aren't a lot of lawyers
in this town who don't do some kind of work for the telecoms."
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June 10, 2006 Saturday
Ex-attorney general of U.S. to help Mittal

BYLINE: Heather Timmons
SECTION: FINANCE; Pg. 18
LENGTH: 329 words
DATELINE: LONDON
Mittal Steel has an ally in its fight to take over Arcelor: the former U.S.
attorney general, John Ashcroft. Ashcroft, a conservative Republican, set up
Ashcroft Group, a well-connected lobbying firm, after he left the Bush
administration at the beginning of 2005.
On Thursday, he characterized the fight for Arcelor, which would create the
world's largest steel manufacturer, as an issue important to everyone.
Mittal, based in Rotterdam and London, has been trying to take over Arcelor
since January and most recently offered ¤25.8 billion, or $32.6 billion, for the
company. But Arcelor management has rebuffed Mittal's offers, in some cases
mentioning the Mittal founder's roots in India as it criticized the bids.
Presumably in response, Ashcroft said in a telephone interview: ''This is not

a garden variety, run-of-the-mill business merger. The eyes of the world are on
the way the players are conducting themselves, regulators and markets, and what
they demand in terms of fairness and integrity.''
Ashcroft, who has advised Mittal on corporate governance issues in the past,
did not say what his role would be. At issue, he said, is the way Arcelor is
trying to block Mittal's bid with a ¤13 billion deal it struck with the Russian
steel company Severstal. Arcelor, based in Luxembourg, may need antitrust
clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Severstal deal. If so,
Ashcroft's role may be clearer, as his contacts in the Justice Department are
said to be formidable.
''The process that has been embraced by Arcelor cannot be said to welcome
democracy,'' Ashcroft said in the interview. The company's actions cause
''serious questions to be raised'' about management's commitment to corporate
governance, he said. Arcelor is demanding that holders of 50 percent of its
shares outstanding vote against the Severstal deal if it is to be overturned.
Generally, only about a third of shareholders vote at any meeting, making that
level nearly impossible to reach.
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The New York Times
March 27, 2006 Monday

Late Edition - Final
Justices Will Hear Patent Case Against eBay

BYLINE: By KATIE HAFNER
SECTION: Section C; Column 3; Business/Financial Desk; Pg. 4
LENGTH: 880 words
The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a

protracted, closely watched patent case that pits a small company called
MercExchange against eBay, the online auction and marketplace.
While the grounds in the case appear narrow -- the court will reconsider
the rules under which courts grant injunctions against a company found to be
infringing another's patent -- it has attracted enormous attention because of
the public rancor between the two companies, the supporters enlisted by both
sides and the growing issue of how large technology companies deal with the
constant threat of patent challenges.
The patent in question surrounds the ''Buy It Now'' feature that eBay uses to
allow processing of transactions for the Web site's fixed-price purchasing
option.
The Supreme Court will decide whether a federal appeals court was correct
in reversing a district court's decision to deny an injunction against eBay's
use of the feature. In doing so, it will reconsider a precedent from 1908, which
suggested that injunctions were always an appropriate remedy for patent
infringement.
Supporting briefs from third parties, including some unlikely ones, have
piled up for each side. A pharmaceutical industry trade group filed a brief in
support of MercExchange, as did General Electric, Proctor & Gamble, the
University of California, a group of venture capitalists and the United States
government. All argued in favor of injunctions against those who infringe
patents.
A brief filed jointly by Oracle, Microsoft and Intel in support of eBay

argued that the injunction rule ''has transformed patents into a powerful tool
for litigation abuse'' and ''stifles innovation.'' EBay has also hired Juleanna
Glover Weiss of the Ashcroft Group, a lobbying firm in Washington founded by
John Ashcroft, the former United States attorney general, to help with
communications efforts related to the case and patent issues in general.
The case began in 2001, when MercExchange sued eBay, accusing it of

willfully infringing three electronic commerce patents held by Thomas Woolston,
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an engineer from Great Falls, Va., and the founder of MercExchange, which he
calls a network engineering firm. One of Mr. Woolston's patents was a feature to
sell fixed-price goods online, and it included an automatic payment system.
In 2003, a federal court jury in Virginia, where MercExchange is based,

found that eBay was violating two of the three patents, including the Buy It Now
patent, and the court eventually ordered eBay to pay $25 million in damages.
But the judge presiding over the case refused to issue an injunction that
would have barred eBay from continuing to use the patented methods in its Web
operations.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case after the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a specialized court in Washington that hears
all appeals in patent cases, overturned the lower court's decision and ruled
that MercExchange was entitled to an injunction.
The appeals court said that injunctions were the ''general rule'' in patent
infringement cases, and should be withheld only in such ''rare instances'' as
''the need to use an invention to protect public health.''
At issue before the Supreme Court on Wednesday is whether the federal

circuit court's ruling correctly interpreted federal patent law, which
authorizes judges to grant injunctions but does not require them to do so.
The case has attracted an unusual amount of public attention in part

because of recent attempts by large corporations to change patent law to lessen
the threat posed by so-called nonpracticing patent holders.
''Large companies like Microsoft and Intel get hit by weekly patent
infringement suits, the majority from smaller entities who may not be practicing
the inventions,'' said Dennis Crouch, a patent attorney in Chicago who has been
following the MercExchange case closely. ''The big guns behind eBay are trying
to weaken the power of a patent and lessen the ability of a patent holder to
obtain an injunction.''
In his decision to withhold the injunction, the district court judge noted
that MercExchange ''exists solely to license its patents or sue to enforce its
patents, and not to develop or commercialize them.''
Yet in a telephone interview, Mr. Woolston said that MercExchange had

indeed put its patents to commercial use. ''Come to MercExchange.com and buy a
plasma TV,'' said Mr. Woolston. ''We are practicing our inventions.''
The eBay case is similar to a recent patent case again Research In Motion.,
the maker of the BlackBerry wireless device. Had an injunction been enforced in
the BlackBerry case, it might have caused a shutdown of the system. Instead, in
a last-minute settlement, R.I.M., a Canadian company, agreed to pay $612.5
million to NTP, a patent holding company based in Arlington, Va.
Yet, if an injunction is ordered in the eBay case, the day-to-day workings

of eBay are not likely to be affected, said Hani Durzy, a spokesman for eBay.
Mr. Durzy added that immediately after the verdict in 2003, the company made
changes to the Buy It Now feature.
Use of the feature has grown over the years. In the fourth quarter of 2005,
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it accounted for about a third of the $12 billion in transactions on eBay.
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May 2, 2005 Monday

Final Edition
Couldn't Have Said It Better Himself

BYLINE: Al Kamen
SECTION: A Section; A15 , IN THE LOOP Al Kamen
LENGTH: 849 words
In the fight over John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador, there's

been a huge fuss over a speech Bolton gave in 2003 in Seoul, which some have
suggested was not diplomatic enough and was out of sync with administration
policy.
It certainly wasn't appreciated in some quarters of the State Department,

although Bolton's theoretical former boss, Colin L. Powell, said it was "fully
cleared" and "was consistent with administration policy."
So let's compare Bolton's language with President Bush's news conference on

Thursday. Here's Bolton in Seoul:
"Kim Jong Il . . . keeps hundreds of thousands of his people locked in

prison camps with millions more mired in abject poverty, scrounging the ground
for food.
" . . . To give in to his extortionist demands would only encourage him,

and perhaps more ominously, other would-be tyrants around the world.
" . . . Let me be clear: The United States seeks a peaceful solution to

this situation. President Bush has . . . mobilize[ed] world public opinion to
support us in finding a lasting multilateral solution. . . . The operative term
is 'multilateral.' "
Okay. Now Bush last week: "Look, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person. He's a
man who starves his people. He's got huge concentration camps. . . . [T]here is
concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon. [I]t's best when you're
dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il to assume he can. That's why I've decided
that the best way to deal with this diplomatically is to bring more leverage to
the situation by including other countries.
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"It used to be that it was just America dealing with North Korea. I felt it
-- it didn't work. In other words, the bilateral approach didn't work."
Maybe Bush was Bolton's speechwriter?
Washington power hostess Juleanna Glover Weiss, a longtime GOP

operative-turned-lobbyist, is leaving highly regarded Clark & Weinstock to set
up shop with former senator and attorney general John D. Ashcroft.
Glover Weiss has handled policy or communications jobs for Ashcroft (back
in his Senate days), Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, Spencer Abraham, Phyllis
Schlafly, Jesse Helms and Rudy Giuliani, and she was Veep Dick Cheney's flack
until early 2002. Ashcroft's consulting operation is called the Ashcroft Group.
She is joining longtime Ashcroft chief of staff David Ayres, who is a principal
of the firm.
But she's best known for throwing great see-and-be-seen parties at her
fine home in Kalorama, attracting a who's who of Washington players, from Alan
Greenspan to top Democratic operative Donna Brazile to Ahmed Chalabi, and a
variety of media stars.
So does this mean it's now cash bar? BYO?
Meanwhile, word is former California congressman Vic Fazio, a top Democrat

and longtime Clark & Weinstock partner, is also leaving the firm. Fazio,
looking for more international work, is said to be headed toward Akin Gump.
Clark & Weinstock will be making big hires.
The net nanny is keeping things clean and tidy at the State Department,
according to an e-mail we received from career development officer Kristen B.
Skipper.
She'd tried to send out a message about a department health fair, but it was
kicked back. "The following message was blocked because it contains sensitive
content," specifically, a violation of the "Rule/Policy: Profanity," the
message blocker said. So Skipper found another way to get the word out.
"Hi Everyone," she said in an e-mail. "You may have just gotten a message
that I was trying to send naughty stuff through the e-mail. It turns out that
the computer program seized on the description of how blood will be drawn at the
health fair, which used the phrase 'finger pr -- k.' " ("Prick" was spelled out
in the original e-mail.) "Evidently that was enough to set off system alarms. If
you want to see the notice, go to Dept. Notices on the intranet. I'm certainly
not going to try sending it again!"
Another reason it's called Foggy Bottom?
History has returned to the House! Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) last
week tapped Robert V. Remini, a professor emeritus of history at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, to be the House historian.
There hasn't been one since former history professor and House speaker Newt
Gingrich fired one House historian after the GOP won control in 1994, and then
fired his own choice when it was disclosed she had criticized a Holocaust course
for not presenting "the Nazi point of view."
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There had been someone in the clerk's office handling history matters, but
he turned down the formal title. Remini has been a visiting scholar at the
Library of Congress since 2002, creating a history of the House, and has written
about 20 books on U.S. history.
In other moves, Scott Whitaker, who had been chief of staff at the Department
of Health and Human Services, has signed up with the Biotechnology Industry
Organization (BIO) to be its chief operating officer. Amit K. Sachdev, who had
been deputy commissioner for policy at the Food and Drug Administration, has
joined BIO as executive vice president in charge of the health care portfolio.
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January 4, 2006 Wednesday
Ashcroft helps Israelis on Korean weapons deal

BYLINE: By Jonathan E. Kaplan
SECTION: Pg. 1
LENGTH: 882 words
Israel's major aerospace company hired former U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft's lobbying firm late last month to help secure the U.S. government's
approval to sell a weapons system to the South Korean Air Force, according to
lobbying disclosure records.
The South Koreans are choosing between an early-warning radar system built by
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and a similar, more expensive system built by
Chicago-based Boeing Co. The radar systems enhance an air force's ability to
track enemy fighter jets during combat.
U.S. law requires Israel, and any other country seeking to resell American
military technology, to secure approval from the Department of State's
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. That agency can also consult with the
Pentagon on whether to issue an export license. A State Department spokesman
declined to comment.
Boeing already has the U.S. government's approval.
The South Koreans initially had intended to make a decision by Dec. 31, but
the government told the companies last month that it would delay its final
decision until May 2006, which gives the Israeli company an additional four
months to get the U.S. government's blessing.
Boeing officials based in Seoul, South Korea, expressed disappointment with

the four-month delay in news reports in that country and Israel. The Jerusalem
Post reported last month that Alexander Vershbow, the U.S. ambassador to South
Korea, met with the South Korean defense minister and pushed for Boeing. The $1
billion deal has garnered little attention in the U.S. media and in Congress.
In 2005, Boeing contributed $642,877 to Republican and Democratic lawmakers'

political action committees and campaign committees, according to
politicalmoneyline.com. The firm reported spending $4.9 million on lobbying in
2004.
A spokesman for Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), who traditionally aids Boeing
because the company has a large presence in his district, said he was not aware
of the sale and had not been contacted by Boeing on the matter. Spokespeople for
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Washington
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Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell did not return calls for
comment.
South Korea, the world's 11th largest economy, has been investing heavily in
its military in recent years. The U.S. ally has developed its own fighter plane
and battle tank and launched an aircraft carrier, destroyers and submarines,
said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, an intelligence research company.
"The [surveillance] technology makes a tremendous difference whether you have

airplanes like this," Pike said, adding that not having the system is like
having a "football team without a coach and captain. It is night-and-day in
terms of efficiency and effectiveness of air power. Any serious, self-respecting
country wants them or wants to get them."
The Ashcroft Group and IAI signed a nondisclosure agreement, said spokeswoman
Juleanna Glover Weiss, and IAI officials based in D.C. and Tel Aviv said the
company does not comment on its consultants.
Ashcroft has built a lucrative lobbying practice since starting last summer.
Public records also show that Oracle; ChoicePoint, a company that sells data to
police and federal law-enforcement agencies; and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants have hired Ashcroft.
Public records do not disclose how much IAI is paying Ashcroft. The records
show that IAI also hired Morris Amitay for $20,000.
"I am not going to comment," Amitay said, referring to questions about the
potential deal to IAI's office in Arlington, Va.
While it is not unusual for foreign governments to hire Washington lobbyists

to navigate the executive-branch bureaucracy, Congress has a record of inserting
itself into commercial transactions, especially when national-security issues
are concerned. For example, the House overwhelmingly passed two resolutions last
year encouraging the Bush administration to stop a potential merger between a
Chinese oil company and Unocal, a U.S. oil company.
Israel has come under criticism from the U.S. government for selling arms to
countries hostile to the United States, such as China and South Africa. In 2000,
pressure from the Clinton administration and Congress stopped Israel from
selling its Phalcon radar system to the Chinese.
"Past Israeli behavior does not inspire confidence," said Loren Thompson of
the Lexington Institute, adding that past actions could spark Congressional
action.
The United States suspended cooperation with Israel last year on some
long-term military projects after Israel announced plans to sell China spare
parts for Harpy Drone unmanned aerial vehicles. The United States and Israel
signed a memorandum of understanding in August to regulate future arms sales
between Israel and other countries.
Boeing has sold its surveillance system to the Australian and Turkish
governments, said a D.C.-based Boeing official, who declined further comment.
Last year, the Israelis sold the Phalcon system to India's air force, and,
previously, they sold the Phalcon system to the Chilean air force.
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The United States approved $22.4 billion in licenses to sell arms in 2004;
Israel accounted for $1.33 billion in sales. Japan and Great Britain were the
largest buyers of U.S. weapons, according to a State Department report
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LOBBYING REPORT
1. Registrant Name [2] Organization/Lobbying Firm o Self Employed Individual
Ashcroft Group
2. Address o Check if different than previously reported
Address I 1399 New York Ave., NW Address2 Suite 950
City Washington State DC Zip Code 20005 - Country USA

o Inlerualional Number
Joshua Lawson (202) 942-0202 jlawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com 301196-1320

7. Client Name D Self D Check if client is a state or local government or instrumentality 6. House ID#
Apptricity 398270008
TYPE OF REPORT 8. Year 2008 QI (111 - 3/31) [2] Q2 (411 - 6/30) 0 Q3 (711-9/30) 0 Q4 (lOll - 12/31) 0
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report 0
10. Check if this is a Termination Report 0 Termination Date II. No Lobbying Issue Activity D

was: were:
Less than $5 000 0 Less than $5 000 0
$5,000 or more [2] $ $ 30,000.00 $5 000 or more 0 $
D Method A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
0 Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the
D Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal

Revenue Code
Signature Filed Electronically Date 04/21/2008

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Registrant Ashcroft Group Client Name Apptricity
LOBBYING ACTIVITY, Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant
15. General issue area code IHOM I HOMELAND SECURITY

~~~~~L-~~~~~~~~~~~~_
I(one per page)
I Enterprise software
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies o Check if None

Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)
Tyler Alcorn I D
William Gaynor D
Susan Richmond Johnson I I D
D
I I D
I I D
I II I I D
I
I I D
I II II II I D
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above [2] Check if None

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Clerk of the House of Representatives Secletar~ of the Senate
Legislative Resource Center Office 01 Public Records Secretary 01 the Senate
B·106 Cannon Building 232 Hart Building Received: Feb U. 2008
Washington. DC 20515 Washington, DC 2051 °
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobb~ing Disclosure Act of 1995 [Section 51·AII Filers Are Required To Complete This Page
1. Registrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1388 New York Ave.. NW Suite 850, Washington. DC 20005·0000
3. Principal place 01 business (if different from line 2):
4. Contact Name: JOSHUA LAWSON

E·mail (optional): jlawson@ashcloftgroupllc.com
Senate ID II: 301186·140

HouselD II:
EXEGY.INC
TYPE OF REPORT
B. Year 2007 Mid~ear [Januar~ 1 . June 30J: 0 OR Year End (Jul~ 1 . December 31): [Bj
8. Check if this filing amends a previousl~ filed version of this report: 0
10. Check if this is a Termination Report 0 =) Termination Date: 11. No Lobb~ing Activit~: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
12. lobbying Firms
INCOIolE relating 10 lobb~ing activities 101 this repolling period was:

$10,000 or more: [Bj=) Income [nearest $20,000):----16"'°"'0"'°""°."'°"-0 _
Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nealest $20,000, of alilobb~ing related income from the client (including all pa~ments to the
registrant b~ an~ other entit~ for lobb~ing activities on behalf of the client).
13. Organizations
EXPENSES relating 10 lobb~ing activities for this reporting period were:

$10,000 or more: 0 =) E,penses [nearest $20,000): _
U. Reporlinglolelhod.
Check bo' to indicate e'pense accounting method. See instructions for description of options.
loIethod A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions onl~

§ loIethod B. Reporting amounts under seclion 6033[b)[B) of the Internal Revenue Code
loIethod C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code
Page 1
Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: EXEGY, INC
LOBBYI NG ACTIVITY.
during the reporting period. Using a separate page lor each code, provide inlormation as requested. Allach additional pagels) as
needed.
15. General issue area code: SCI lone per page)
computer technology applications
17. Housels] of Congress and Federal agencies contacted:
Commerce, Dept of (DDC)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI]
Homeland Security, Dept 01 (DHS)
Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
Name: ALCORN,TYLER
Covered Official Position Iii applicable): N/A
Name: AYERS, DAVID
Covered Official Position (if applicable): CHIEF OF STAFF, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Name: DAY, LORI SHARPE
Name: GAYNOR, WILLIAM
Name: HENKE, TRACY
Covered Official Position (if applicable): ASSISTANT SECRETARY, DHS GRANTS AND TRAINING
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specilic issues listed on line 16 above.None
Signature: 0 N FI LE Date: Feb 14, 2008
Printed Name and Tille: LORI SHARPE DAY. SENIOR ADVISO
Page 2
Registrant Name ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: EXEGY, INC
Complete ONLY where registmtion informntion hns chnnged.
LOBBYIST UPDATE
ISSUE UPDATE
26. Name of each previously reported organization that is NO LONGER affiliated with the registrant or client
FOREIGN ENTITIES
28- Name of each previously reported foreign entity the NO LONGER owns. OR controls. OR is affiliated with the
registrant. client or affiliated organization
Signalure: ON FILE Date: Feb 14, 2008
Printed Name and Tille'
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Legislative Resource Center Office of Public Records Secretary 01 the Senate
B-1 06 Cannon Building Received: Feb 09. 2006
Washington. DC 20515
232 Hart Building
Washington. DC 2051 °
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) -All Filer. Are Required To Complete Thi. Page
1. Registrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1399 NEW YORK AVE NW SUITE 950. WASHING TON. DC 20005
4. Contact Name MATTHEW REYNOLDS

Telephone: 202942-0202
E-mail (optionall:maUhew@ashcroftgroupllc.com
SenatelDII: 301196-101
House 10 II:
LTU TECHNOLOGIES. INC
TYPE OF REPORT
8. Year 2005 Midyear (January 1 -June 30): 0 OR Year End [July 1 - December 311: IBJ
10. Check if this is a Termination Report: 0 => Termination Date: 11. No Lobbying Activity: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
12_ Lobbying Firm.
INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was:

$10.000 or more: IBJ=> Income [nearest $20.000):----'2""0""0"'0"'0.""00"--- _
Provide a good faith estimate. rounded to the nearest $20.000. of all lobbying related income from the client (including all payments to the
registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client].
13_ 0 rganization.
EXPENSES relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were:

$10.000 or more: 0 => E<penses [nearest $20.000): _
14_ Reporting Method_

Check bo< to indicate e<pense accounting method. See instructions for description of options.
§ Method A_ Reporting amounts using LDA definitions onlY

Method B_ Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)[8) of the Internal Revenue Code
Method C_ Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code
Page 1
Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: LTU TECHNOLOGIES, INC
LOBBYING ACTIVllY.
Select as many codes as necessary 10 reflecl the general issue areas in which Ihe registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client
during the reporling period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Attach addilional pagels) as
needed.
15. General issue area code: HOM (one per page]
17. House(s] of Congress and Federal agencies contacted:
Homeland Security, Dept of (D HS]
Justice, Dept of [DOJ]
18. Name of each individual who acled as a lobbyist in this issue area:
19. Inlerest of each foreign enlity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above.None
Signalure: ON FILE Date: Feb 09, 2006
Printed Name and Title: JULEANNA GLOVER WEISS· SENIOR ADVISOR
Page 2
Legislative Resource Center Office of Public Records Secrelarv ollhe Senale
Washington. DC 20515 Washington. DC 20510
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) . All Filers Are Required To Complele This Page
1. Registrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1399 New York Ave., NW Suite 950. Washington. DC 20005·0000
3. Principal place of business (if different from line 2):

E-mail (optional): ilawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com
Senate ID II: 301196·1383

House ID II: 39827
7. Client Name: 0 Sell
LIBERTY HEALTHCARE
TYPE OF REPORT
8. Year 2007 Midyear (January 1 . June 30): 0 OR Year End (July 1 . December 31): ~
9. Check if this tiling amends a previously filed version of this report: 0

10. Check il this is a Termination Report IRJ =) Termination Date: Feb 10.2008 11. No Lobbying Activity: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
12. Lobbving Firms
INCOIolE relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was:

$10.000 or more: ~=) Income (nearest $20.000):-----11"'8..,,°"'°"'°.""°°"- _
Provide a good faith estimate. rounded to the nearest $20.000. of all lobbying related income from the client (including all payments to the
1 3. 0 rganizalions
EXPENSES relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were:

$10.000 or more: 0 =) E"penses (nearest $20.000]: _
14. Reporlinglolelhod.
Check bo" to indicate e"pense accounting method. See instructions for description ot options.
§ loIelhod A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only

loIelhod B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(bJl8] 01 the Internal Revenue Code
loIelhod C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e] of the Internal Revenue Code
Page 1
Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: LlBERlY HEALTHCARE
LOBBYING ACTIVITY.
Select as many codes as necessary to refleclthe general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client
needed.
15. General issue area code: HCR [one per page]
Healthcare management issues
17. Housels] of Congless and Federal agencies contacted:

Justice, Dept of IDOJ]
18 Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area:
Name: ALCORN, TYLER

Covered Official Position (if applicable): N/A
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above.None
Page 2
Registranl Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: LIBERTY HEALTHCARE

Complete ONLY where registrntion informntion hns chnnged_
LOBBYIST UPDATE
23_ Name 01 each previously reported individual who is NO LONGER expecled to acl as a lobbyist for the client
ISSUE UPDATE
24_ General lobbying issues previously reported that NO LONGER pertain
25_ Add the following organization(s)
26_ Name of each previously reported organization that is NO LONGER alliliated with the registrant or client
FOREIGN ENTITIES
27_ Add the following loreign entities
28_ Name 01 each previously reported loreign entity the NO LONGER owns, OR controls, OR is alliliated with the
registrant client or alliliated organization
Signalure: 0 N FI LE Dale: Feb 14, 2008
Prinled Name and Title:
Page 3
Il ::;=::L~'C= Washington, DC 20510
LOBBYING REPORT
1. Registrant Name [2] Organization/Lobbying Firm 0 Self Employed Individual
ASHCROFT GROUP, LLC
Addressl 1399 NEW YORK AVE., NW Address2 SUITE 950
-------------------
City WASHINGTON State DC Zip Code 20005 Country USA

City State Zip Code Country
o [nternational Number
JOSHUA LAWSON (202) 942-0202 jlawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com 301196-1635

7. Client Name D Self D Check if client is a state or local government or instrumentality 6. House ID#
THE REMI GROUP 398270017
TYPE OF REPORT 8. Year 2008 Ql (111 - 3/31) 0 Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) D Q3 (7/1-9/30) [2] Q4 (lOll - 12/31) 0
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report D
10. Check if this is a Termination Report D Termination Date I I. No Lobbying Issue Activity D
was: were:
Less than $5 000 Less than $5 000

o
$5.000 or more o $ $5 000 or more o $-------
of all lobbying related income from the client (incl uding all accounting method. See instructions for description of options.
payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying D Method A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
D Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the
Revenue Code

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Registrant ASHCROFT GROUP, LLC ClienLName THE REMI GROUP
15. General issue area code IGOV_ _ _ _ 'l

IIGOVERNMENT ISSUES _
I (one per page)
I Eq u ipment upgrade offer;ngs

Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Education - Dept of,
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), General Services Administration
(GSA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Interior - Dept of (DOl), Labor - Dept of
(DOL), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Defense - Dept of (DOD)
David Ayres Chief of Staff, DOJ 0

Tyler Alcorn I 0
William Gaynor I 0
Susan Richmond Johnson 0
Edward I Propst 0
0
I I 0
0
I II III II 10

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EXHIBIT 42
Clelk of the House of Representatives Secretary of the Senate
Legislative Resource Centel Office of Public Records S ecrelary of lhe Senale
B-1 06 Cannon Building 232 Hart Building Received: Aug 09. 2006
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 2051 0
Check if this is an Amended Registr ation 0 1. Effective Date of Registration Aug 09 2006
2. House Identification Number Senate Identification Number 301196-366
REGISTRANT
3. Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP
Address: 1399 NEW YORK AVE NW SUITE 950
City: WASHINGTON State: DC Zip: 20005
4. Principal place 01 business (if different from line 3):
5. Telephone number and contact name:

202942-0202 Contact: MATTHEW REYNOLDS
E-mail(optional]:maUhew@ashcrollgroupllc.com
6. General description of registlant's business or activities:

CLIENT
A Lobbying firm is required to file a sepalate registration for each client. Organizations employing in-house lobbyists should check the box
labeled "Self" and proceed to line 10.
o Self
7. Client name: COUNCIL ON STATE Ti\XIl.T10N

Address: 122 C STREET, NW SUITE 330
8. Principal place of business (if different from line 7l
9. General description of client's business or activities:

Business Trade Association
LOBBYISTS
10. Name of each individual who has acted or is expected to act as a lobbyist for the client identified on line 7. If any person listed in this
section has served as a "covered executive branch official" or "covered legislative branch official" within two years of tirst acting as a
lobbyist for the client state the executive and/or legislative position(s) in which the person served.
Name: WEISS,JULEANNA GLOVER

LOBBYING ISSUES
11. General lobbying issue areas. Select all applicable codes listed in instructions and on the reverse side of Form LD-1, page 1:
[eN TAX
12. Specific lobbying issues [current and anticipated):
State Tax incentives: HR_2471 S. 1066
13. Is there an entity other than the client that contribute. more than $10,000 to the lobbying activities of the registrant in a semi-annual
period and13. Is there an entity other than the client that contributes more than $10,000 to the lobbying activities of the registrant in a
semi-annual periodin whole or in maiOl part plans, supervises OJ controls the registrant's lobbying activities?
Page 1
Registrant Name ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: COUNCIL ON STATE T.AXA.TION
[gJ No, then go to line 14.

o Yes, then complete Ihe resl of this section lor each enlily matching the criteria above, then proceed to line 14.
FOREIGN ENTITIES
14. Is there any 100eign entity thaI:
a] holds alleast20% equitable ownership in the client 01 any OIganizalion identified on line 13; OR
bJ directly or indirectly, in whole 01 in maior part plans, supervises, controls, directs, finances or subsidizes activities of the client or any
organization identified on line 13; OR
cJ is an affiliate of the client 01 any organization identified on line 13 and has a direct inlerest in the outcome of the lobbying activity?
[gJ No, then sign and date the registration.

o Yes, then complete the rest of this section for each entily matching the criteria above, then sign and date the registration.
Signature: ON FILE Date: Aug 09, 2006
Printed Name and Title: LORI SHARPE DAY· SENIOR ADVISOR
Page 2
Clerk of the House of Representatives Secrelary of the Senate
Legislative ResoUlce Center Office of Public Records 5 ecretary 01 the 5 enate
B·106 Cannon Building 232 Halt Building Received: Jun 07. 2006
Washington. DC 20515 Washington. 0 C 2051 0
Lobbying DisclosUle Act of 1995 [Section 4)
Check if this is an Amended Registration 0 1. Effective Date of Registration Jun 07 2006
2. House Identification Number Senate Identification Number 301196-241
REGISTRANT
Address: 1399 NEW YO RKAVE NW SUIT E 950
4. Principal place 01 business [if different /rom line 3):

202942·0202 Contact: MATTHEW REYNOLDS
E-mail[optional):mallhew@ashcroftgroupllc.com
6. General description of registrant's business or activilies

CLIENT
A Lobbying firm is required to file a separate registration for each client. Organizations employing in-house lobbyists should check the box
o Self
7. Client name: DRS TECHNOLOGIES
Address: 1235 S. CLARK STREET
City: ARLINGTON State: VA ZiP: 22202
B. Principal place 01 business (il different /rom line 71:

City: PARSIPPANY StatelZiplor Country]: NJ 07054

Manufactures components. parts. systems for military and commercial aircraft
LOBBYISTS
section has served as a "covered execulive branch official" or "covered legislative branch official" within two years of first acting as a
lobbyist for the client. state the executive and/or legislative positionls) in which the person selved
Name: DAY. LORI SHARPE

Covered Official Position lif applicable): N/A
Name: GAYNOR. WILLIE
Covered 0 fficial Position lif applicable): NIA
Name: RICHMOND. SUSAN
Covered Official Position lif applicable): CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MANAGEMENT. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Name: WEISS.JULEANNA GLOVER
Covered OffiCial Position (if applicable): N/A
LOBBYING ISSUES
11. General lobbying issue areas. Select all applicable codes listed in instructions and on the reverse side of Form LD·1. page 1:
DEF TRD
12. Specific lobbying issues (current and anticipated):
Export control issues
Page 1
Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: DRS TECHNOLOGIES
13. Is there an enlity olher than the clienlthal contributes more lhan $1 0,000 10 lhe lobbying aclivilies of the registrant in a semi-annual
period and13. Is there an enlily olhe.lhan the c1ienl that contribules more than $1 0,000 10 lhe lobbying aclivilies of the regislranl in a
semi-annual periodin whole or in major part plans, supervises or controls the registrant's lobbying activities?
~ No, lhen go to line 14.
o Yes, then complele lhe resl of lhis section for each enlity matching lhe crileria above, then proceed to line 14.
FOREIGN ENTITIES
14. Is there any foreign enlily lhat
a] holds alleast 20% equitable ownership in the c1ienl or any organization identified on line 13; OR
b) directly or indi.eclly, in whole or in major part plans, supervises, controls, direcls, finances or subsidizes activilies of the client or any
organizalion identified on line 13; OR
cj is an afliliate of lhe client or any organization idenlified on line 13 and has a direct interesl in the outcome of lhe lobbying aclivily?
oIRI Yes,
No, then sign and date lhe registration.
then complele the rest this section lor each entity matching the criteria above, then sign and date the registration.
01
Signature: ON FILE Dale: Jun 07, 2006
Page 2
Clerk of the House of Representalives Secrelary of the Senale
Legislative Resource Center Office of Public Records Secretary of the Senate
B-1 06 Cannon Building 232 Hart Building Received: Ju114. 2006
Washington. DC 20515 Washington. DC 20510
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobbying DisclosureAcl of 1995 (Section 5) -All Filers Are Required To Complete This Page
1. Regislrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1399 NEWYORK AVE NW SUITE 950. WASHINGTON. DC 20005
4. Contact Name: MATTHEW REYNOLDS

Telephone: 202942-0202
E-mail (oplional): malthew@ashcroflgroupllc.com
Senate ID II: 301196-226

House ID II:
DSNR
TYPE OF REPORT
B. Year 2006 Midyear (January 1 - June 30): [8J OR Year End (July 1 - December 31) 0
10. Check if this is a Termination Report: [8] => Termination Date: Aug 01. 2006 11. No Lobbying Activity: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
12_ lobbying Firms

INCOME relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period was:

$10.000 or more: [8]=> Income (nearest $20.0001:_1"'B"'0"'0,.00..."'00"- _
Provide a good faith estimate. rounded to the nearest $20.000. of all lobbying related income from the client (including all paymenls to the
registranl by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client):
13_ Organizations
EXPENSES relating to lobbying activities tor this reporting period were:

$10.000 or more: 0 => Expenses (nearest $20.000]: _
14_ Reporling Melhod_

Check box 10 indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options.
§ Method A_ Reporting amounts using LDA delinitions only

Method B_ Reporting amounts under section 6033[bllB) of Ihe Internal Revenue Code
Method C_ Reporilng amounts under seellon 162[e] of the Internal Revenue Code
Page 1
Registre.nt Ne.me: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Ne.me: DSNR
LOBBYING ACTIVITY.
Select as many codes as necessary to reflecllhe general issue areas in which the regislranl engaged in lobbying on behalf of lhe client
during the reporting period. Using a separale page for each code. provide informalion as requesled. Attach addilional pagels) as
needed.
15. General issue area code: IMM (one per page)
Immigralion
17. House[s) of Congress and Federal agencies conIacted:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE
18. Name of each individual who acled as a lobbyist in this issue area:
Name: AYRES. DAVID

Covered Official Posilion (if applicable)" CHIEF OF STAFF. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Covered Official Posilion (if applicable)" N/A
Name: GAYNOR. WILLIE
Covered Official Posilion [if applicable): N/A
Name: WEISS. JULEANNA GLOVER
Covered Official Posilion [if applicable): N/A
19. Inleresl 01 each foreign enlily in the specific issues listed on line 16 above.None
Signalure: ON FILE Date: Ju114. 2006
Page 2
Registranl Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Clienl Name: OSNR
Complete ONLY where registration information has changed.
LOBBYIST UPDATE
23. Name of each previously reporled individual who is NO LONGER expecled 10 acl as a lobbyisl for Ihe c1ienl
ISSUE UPDATE
24. General lobbying issues previously reporled Ihal NO LONGER perlain
25. Add the following organizalionls)
26. Name of each previously reporled organizalion Ihal is NO LONGER allilialed wilh Ihe regislranl or c1ienl
FOREIGN ENTITIES
27. Add the following foreign enlilies
28. Name 01 each previously reporled foreign enlily Ihe NO LONGER owns. OR conlrols. OR is allilialed wilh Ihe
regislranl. c1ienl or affilialed organizalion
Signature: ON FILE Dale: Jul 14. 2006
Prinled Name and Title: LORI SHARPE DAY· Senior Advisor
Page 3
Clerk of the House of Representatives Secretal~ 01 the Senate
Legislalive Resource Center Office of Public Records Sec,etary 01 the Senate
B-1 06 Cannon Building 232 Hart Building Received: Jun 07. 2006
Lobb~ing Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 4)
Check if this is an Amended Registration 0 1. Effective Date of Registration Jun 07 2006
2. House Identification Number Senate Identification Number 30119&265
REGISTRANT
Address: 1399NEWYORKAVE NW SUITE 950
Cit~: WASHINGTON State: DC Zip: 20005
4. Principal place of business [if different Irom line 3):

202942·0202 Contact: MATTHEW REYNOLDS
E·mail(optional): matlhew@ashcroftgroupllc.com
6. General description of registrant's business or activities:

CLIENT
A Lobb~ing firm is required to file a separate registration for each client. Organizations emplo~ing in-house lobb~ists should check the box
labeled "S elf" and proceed to line 1O.
o Self
7. Client name: GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION
Address: 2941 FAIRVIEW PARK DRIVE, SUITE 100
Cit~: FALLS CHURCH State: VA Zip: 22042

Manufactures components, parts. systems for militar~ and commercial aircraft
LOBBYISTS
seclion has served as a "covered executive branch official" or "covered legislative branch ollicial" within two years of first acting as a
lobbyist for the client. stale the executive and/or legislative position(s! in which the person served.

Covered Official Position til applicable): N/A
Name: GAYNOR, WILLIE
Name: RICHMOND, SUSAN
Covered Official Position (if applicable): CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MANAGEMENT. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Name WEISS,JULEANNA GLOVER
Covered Official Position (il applicable) N/A
LOBBYING ISSUES
11. General lobbying issue areas. Select all applicable codes listed in instructions and on the reverse side of Form LD-1. page 1·
DEF TRD
12. Specific lobbying issues (current and anticipated):
Export control issues
Page 1
Registrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION
13. Is there an entity other than the client that contributes more than $10,000 to the lobbying activities of the registrant in a semi·annual
period and13. Is there an entity other than the client that contributes more than $1 0,000 to the lobbying activities 01 the registrant in a
semi·annual periodin whole or in maior part plans, supervises or controls the registrant's lobbying activities?
I8J No, then go to line 14.

o Yes, then complete the rest of this section for each entity matching the criteria above, then proceed to line 14.
FOREIGN ENTITIES
14. Is there any foreign entity that
a] holds at least 20% equitable ownership in the client or any organization identified on line 13; 0 R
b] directly or indirectly, in whole or in maior part plans, supervises, controls, directs, finances or subsidizes activities of the client or any
c] is an affiliate of the client or any organization identified on line 13 and has a direct interest in the outcome 01 the lobbying activity?
oI8J No, then sign and date the registration.

Yes, then complete the rest of this section for each entil]' matching the criteria above, then sign and date the registration.
Signature: 0 N FI LE Date: Jun 07, 2006
Printed Name and Title LORI SHARPE DAY· SENIOR ADVISOR
Page 2
Clerk of Ihe House of Representalives Secrelary of Ihe Senale
Legislalive ResoUlce Center Office of Public Records S ecrela., 01 the Senate
Washington. DC 20515 Washington. DC 2051 0
Lobbying DisciosUle Act of 19951Section 4)
Check if this is an Amended Registration 0 1. Effective Date of Registration Sep 01 2007
2. House Identification Number 39B27 Senate Identification Number 301196·990
REGISTRANT
Address: 1399 New York Ave., NW Suite 950
City: Washington Stale: DC Zip: 20005·0000

2029420202 Contact LORI SHARPE DAY
E'mailloptional): Iday@ashcroftgroupllc.com
6. General description of registrant's business or activities:

Strategic consulting
CLIENT
A Lobbying firm is required to file a separate registration for each client. Organizations employing in·house lobbyists should check the box
o Sell
7. Client name: MLU SERVI CE 5

Address: 573 HAWTHORNE AVE
City: ATHENS State: GA Zip: 30606
B. Principal place of business lif different from line 7):
9. Gene,al description of client's business or activities:

Oisaste, relief and recovery
LOBBYISTS
section has se,ved as a "covered executive branch official" or "covered legislative branch official" within two years of first acting as a
lobbyist for the client. state Ihe executive and/or legislative positionls) in which the person served.
Name: HENKE. TRACY

LOBBYING ISSU ES
11. General lobbying issue areas. Select all applicable codes listed in instructions and on the reverse side of Form LD·1. page 1:
DIS HOM
12. Specific lobbying issues [current and anticipated):
Disaster relief and recovery
13. Is Ihere an entity other than the clienlthat contributes more than $10.000 to the lobbying activilies of the registrant in a semi-annual
period andB Is there an entily other than the client that contributes more than $10,000 to the lobbying activities of the registrant in a
semi·annual periodin whole or in malor part plans, supervises or controls the registrant's lobbying activities?
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® No, then go to line 14.

o Yes, then complete Ihe resl 01 this section for each entity matching Ihe criteria above, then proceed to line 14.
FOREIGN ENTITIES
14. Is there any foreign entity that:
a) holds alleast 20% equitable ownership in the client 01 any organization Identified on line 13; 0 R
b) directly or indirectly, in whole 01 in maiOl part plans, supervises, controls, directs, finances or subsidizes activities of the client or any
c) is an affiliate of the client or any organization identified on line 13 and has a direct interest in the outcome of Ihe lobbying activity?
[8J No, then sign and date the registration.

o Yes, then complete Ihe resl of this section fo' each entity matching Ihe criteria above, then sign and date Ihe registration.
Printed Name and Title: LORI SHARPE DAY, SENIOR ADVISOR
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Washington. DC 20515 Washington, DC 20510
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 19951Section 5)· All Filers Are Required To Complete This Page
1. Registrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1399 New York Ave.. NW Suite 950. Washington. DC 20005·0000
3. Principal place 01 business [if different from line 21:

E·mail (optional): jlawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com
SenatelD II: 301196·847

House ID II: 39827
RJI CApn AL CORP
TYPE OF REPORT
8. Year 2007 Midyear (January 1 ·June30): 0 OR Year End [July 1 . December 31): ~
9. Check ilthis filing amends a previously filed version 01 this report: 0

10 Check if this is a Termination Report: 0 => Termination Date: 11. No Lobbying Activity: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
Complete Either Line 12 OR line 13
12. Lobbying Firms
INCO"'E relating to lobbying activities lor this reporting period was:

$10,000 or more: ~=> Income (nearest $20,000):----'6"'0""0"'0"'0"'0"-0 _
Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $20,000, of all lobbying related income from the client (including all payments to the
13. Organizations
EXPENSES relating to lobbying activities for this reporting period were'

$10,000 or more: 0 => E.penses (nearest $20,000): _
14. Reporting "'ethod.

Check bo.to indicate e.pense accounting method. See instructions lor description of options
§ "'ethod A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only

"'ethod B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code
"'ethod C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code
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LOBBYI NG ACTIVllY.
Selecl as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the regislrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of lhe client
during lhe reporling period. Using a separale page for each code, plOvide informalion as requesled. Attach additional pagels) as
needed.
15. General issue area code: IMM (one per page)
immigration issues
17. Housels) of Congress and Federal agencies coni acted:

Homeland Securily, Dept of (DHSJ
Name: GLOVER WEISS, JULEANNA

Covered Official Posilion (if applicable): N!A
1S. Inlerest of each foreign enlily in lhe specific issues listed on line 16 above.None
Signalure: 0 N FI LE Dale: Feb 14, 2008
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Regislrant Name: ASHCROFT GROUP Client Name: RJI CAPITAL CORP
Complete ONLY where registrotion informotion hos chonged.
LOBBYIST UPDATE
ISSUE UPDATE
25. Add the following organization!s)
26. Name 01 each previously reported organization that is NO LONGER alliliated with the registrant or client
FOREIGN ENTITIES
28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity the NO LONGER owns. OR controls, OR is alliliated with the
registrant. client or alliliated organization
Signalure: ON FILE Dale: Feb 14. 2008
Printed Name and Title:
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]. Registrant Name [2] Organization/Lobbying Firm o Self Employed Individual
Ashcroft Group

Addressl 1399 New York Ave., NW Address2 Suite 950

o International Number
JOSHUA LAWSON (202) 942-0202 jlawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com 301196-785

7. Client Name D Self 0 Check if client is a state or local government or instrumentality 6. House ID#
SPADAC, Inc. 398270006
TYPE OF REPORT 8. Year 2008 QI (111 - 3/31) 0 Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) [2] Q3 (711-9/30) [J Q4 (lOll - 12/31) 0
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10. Check if this is a Termination Report 0 Termination Date II. No Lobbying Issue Activity 0

was: were:
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$5,000 or more [2] $ $ 20,000.00 $5,000 or more 0 $
0 Method A. Reporting amounts using LOA definitions only
0 Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b )(8) of the
0 Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal

Revenue Code
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15. General issue area code LIH_O_M II_H_O_M_E_LA

__N_D_S_E_C_U_R_I_T_y 1 (one per page)
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Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. SENATE
Tracy Henke Assistant Secretary, Grants and Training, DHS 0

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Legislative Resource Cenler Office of Public Records Secrelary of Ihe Senale
B·106 Cannon Building 232 Hart Building Received: Feb 12. 2007
Washinglon. DC 20515 Washington, DC 20510
LOBBYING REPORT
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 [Section 5)· All Filers Are Required To Complele This Page
1. Regislrant Name:
ASHCROFT GROUP
2. Address:
1399 NEW YORK AVE NW SUITE 950, WASHINGTON, DC 20005
4. Conlacl Name: MATTHEW REYNOLDS

Telephone: 202942·0202
E·mail (oplional): maUhew@ashcroflgroupllc.com
SenalelD II: 301196·125

House ID II:
TRAFFICLAND. INC.
TYPE OF REPORT
8. Year 2006 Midyear (January 1 ·June 301: 0 OR Year End (July 1· December 31): [BJ
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of lhis report: 0
10. Check if lhis is a Terminalion Report 0 &> Termination Date: 11. No Lobbying Activily: 0
INCOME OR EXPENSES
12. lobbying Firms
INCOME relating 10 lobbying activrties for this reporling period was:
Less lhan $10.000: 0

$10.000 or more: [BJ=> Income (nearest $20.000]:---'6"'0""0"'0"'0.""00"--- _
Provide a good faith eslimale. rounded to the nearest $20.000. of all lobbying relaled income from lhe c1ienl (including all paymenls 10 lhe
registranl by any other entily for lobbying aclivities on behalf of lhe client).
13. 0 rganizalions
EXPENSES relating 10 lobbying actiVities for this reporting period were:

$10.000 or more: 0 => E,penses (nearest $20.000]: _
1•. Reporting Melhod.

Check bo' 10 indicate e'pense accounting melhod. See inslructions for description of oplions.
§ Melhod A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only

Melhod B. Reporting amounts under secllon 6033[bJ(81 of lhe Internal Revenue Code
Melhod C. Reportrng amounts under secllon 162(el of the Inlernal Revenue Code
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LOBBYING ACTIVITY.
needed.
15. General issue area code: TRA [one per page)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies contacted:

Homeland Security, Dept of (D HSJ
Transportation, Dept of [D 0 T)
18. Name 01 each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area:
Name DAY, LORI SHARPE

Name: GAYNOR, WILLIE
Covered 0 fficial Position (if applicable): NI A
Name: HENKE, TRACY
Covered Official Position [if applicable): ASSISTANT SECRETARY, GRANTS AND TRAINING, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Covered Official Position (if applicable)' CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MANAGEMENT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
Covered Official Position [if applicable). CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MANAGMENT, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above.None
Signature: ON FILE Date: Feb 12. 2007
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EXHIBIT 44
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19 of 399 DOCUMENTS
The Business Journal (Tampa Bay Florida)
March 31, 2008 Monday
Ceelox gets biometric boost from former top cop

Ashcroft
BYLINE: Michael Hinman
LENGTH: 689 words
TAMPA -- Ceelox Inc. has emerged from its research and development stage and
is now working to convince companies that it's time to toughen up data security
using the latest technology.
Instead of using a marketing campaign or relying on trade shows to get its

name out, the Tampa company is wielding its marketing weapon of choice: former
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Ashcroft -- who like many attorneys general before him was involved in a
number of controversial actions while in office, including his support of the
USA Patriot Act -- has been on a publicity tour in recent weeks to promote
Ceelox. He's taking advantage of the alliance between the biometric security
firm and his company, The Ashcroft Group.
Having Ashcroft on board "is giving us a degree of credibility," said Gerry

Euston, CEO of Ceelox. "Being associated with John Ashcroft has provided us some
introductions and entrees to larger companies and government agencies out there
that we may not have gotten otherwise."
A secure spokesman
Ceelox and The Ashcroft Group announced their alliance last June. An equity
position in Ceelox put Ashcroft on its advisory board. No financial terms have
been disclosed.
The company now has 25 employees in a 7,000-square-foot facility off

Racetrack Road in the Westchase area north of Tampa. In recent weeks it launched
some initial projects -- Ceelox ID for fingerprint access to computer terminals
and networks, Ceelox Vault for access to and encryption of databases and Ceelox
SecureMail, which encrypts e-mail -- as a way to enter what has become a $3.8
billion biometrics security market.
Most Ceelox products are geared toward larger more regulated industries such
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(Tampa Bay Florida) March 31, 2008 Monday
as financial, health care, utilities and government, but plans are under way to
start targeting products for smaller companies in the next few months.
"Our primary distribution right now is through third parties like system
integrators and value-added resellers, and our Ashcroft relationship has already
helped us. But having him here for when we approach smaller businesses directly
will get us on their radar far more quickly," Euston said.
Corporate security took a bigger spotlight once national security was

threatened following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but follow-through
has been lax, Ashcroft said.
"The theory of security has always been adequate, but the practice has always
been challenging," he said. "A lot of people don't take advantage of the
technology that's out there, or they can't manage all the requirements of good
security."
Ashcroft hasn't left the spotlight.
Two weeks ago, he was on Capitol Hill testifying angrily and defending his
firm before Congressional Democrats who alleged a multi-million dollar no-bid
private contract directed to the firm by the Justice Department was a sweetheart
deal, a New York Times report said. Republicans on the Judiciary Subcommittee on
Commercial and Administrative Law defended the deal suggesting it "fundamentally
wrong" to question his credentials, the report said.
Making it look easy
While protecting data assets can be strengthened through a digital

fingerprint, there's a strong perception in the business community that
implementing biometrics is costly and burdensome.
"I don't see a personal need for it myself," said Debra Curtiss, VP and GM of
Tampa operations for Peak 10 Data Center Solutions. While Peak 10's data
facilities use both key cards and biometrics as security barriers for physical
entry into the complex, many of the company's clients -- if not all -- use
standard security to protect databases remotely, namely login usernames and
passwords.
"The trick is going to be making it as easy to use as possible and to

minimize the amount of extra paraphernalia you need to make it work," Curtiss
said.
Streamlining the biometric process has been a focus of Ceelox since it first
started researching the technology in September 2003, Euston said.
"That was not a small undertaking," Euston said. "You're already seeing
biometrics in laptops, so the hardware market is already bringing it to us. Now
we're providing the software that will help make it more prominent."
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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(Tampa Bay Florida) March 31, 2008 Monday
Copyright 2008 American City Business Journals, Inc.

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EXHIBIT 45
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Business Wire
July 27, 2006 Thursday 4:58 PM GMT
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft Joins Dulles

Research Advisory Board in Equity Transaction
LENGTH: 753 words
DATELINE: RESTON, Va. July 27, 2006
Dulles Research LLC announced today that former U.S. Attorney General John D.
Ashcroft has joined the Dulles Research Advisory Board.
In June 2006 The Ashcroft Group, LLC acquired an equity position in Dulles
Research. Terms were not disclosed.
"Many organizations trumpet their capacity to bring new technologies to

market to secure our country, and those of our allies. Dulles Research is a
leading innovator in the threat detection space. The company has developed a
powerfully effective analytic tool to safeguard a range of vulnerable arenas
from transportation to financial transactions," Attorney General Ashcroft said.
"We're honored that Attorney General Ashcroft, and his team at The Ashcroft
Group, LLC, have chosen to partner with us in the development of Dulles
Research," Drew Eginton, founder and CEO of Dulles Research said. "We believe
that this decision further validates the groundbreaking research and development
we have undertaken."
Dulles Research is the emerging leader in the supply of critical network

analysis technology. Through its proprietary software system, branded the Lucid
Threat Management System(TM), the company is developing a system to identify,
project dynamically, and optimally eliminate or manipulate illicit networks.
These networks may be people, or objects (such as containers moving through the
global shipping system). Applications include counter-terrorism, homeland
security, and law enforcement.
Properly applied, and assuming integrated intelligence data structures, Lucid

Identify(TM) is able to detect such networks as the 9/11 hijackers and the
recent "Toronto 17". Sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were identified in
U.S. government databases, but their interactions were unknown.
"Estimates today project that over 30% of global GDP may reside in the gray
and black markets. They're unpoliced, often illegal, and represent a threat in
every population center and marketplace. So even beyond the obvious applications
in the intelligence community, we believe that Lucid offers a long-term
strategic roadmap to help corporations, governments, and law enforcement respond
to changing threat assessments," said David Ayres CEO of The Ashcroft Group.
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Transaction Business Wire July 27, 2006 Thursday 4:58 PM GMT
Other members of the Dulles Research advisory board include John F. Burke, a
partner with True Venture Partners LLC, and James P. Rutt, the former CEO of
Network Solutions, CTO of The Thomson Corporation, and presently the vice
chairman of The Santa Fe Institute.
The first module of the Lucid Threat Management System(TM) will ship in Q3
2006. Named Lucid Identify(TM), it transcends the manual "link analysis" methods
in common use today to detect illicit behavior. Lucid Identify(TM) statistically
solves for, and reveals, previously unknown and unidentified relationships
between bad actors. It does not depend on a "starting point" - a previously
known member of a network - in order to detect them.
Further, Lucid Identify(TM) sustains privacy protections by evaluating the

actual behavior of these networks, rather than the attributes of individuals
suspected of being party to them, as is the case with so-called "data mining"
techniques. This means that advanced anonymization techniques may be deployed,
prior to law enforcement intervention, thus safeguarding privacy while
suppressing the incidence of so-called "false positives."
ABOUT THE ASHCROFT GROUP, LLC. The Ashcroft Group, based in Washington, D.C.,
was formed in 2005 by former Attorney General John Ashcroft. It provides
strategic advisory services to domestic and international corporations.
ABOUT DULLES RESEARCH LLC. Dulles Research was formed in 2005 to address
strategic decision support requirements in the areas of counter-terrorism,
homeland security, and commercial financial services. Eginton previously was a
founder and the CEO of Marketswitch Corporation, sold in 2004 to Experian, the
multi-national information systems and solutions provider, among other
entrepreneurial software ventures he has led. Dulles Research also owns
DullesOpen.com, an independent software vendor distributing Carolina(TM), the
first utility to convert Base SAS(R) to Java or other higher-level languages.
Dulles Research is privately held and based in Reston, Virginia.
SAS(R) and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are
registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other
countries.
CONTACT: Dulles Research LLC, Reston Drew Eginton, 703-766-6366 or The Ashcroft
Group, LLC Juleanna Glover Weiss, 202-942-0202
URL: http://www.businesswire.com
LOAD-DATE: July 28, 2006
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DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors; Defense Writers
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Market Wire
December 11, 2006 Monday 3:00 AM GMT
Bio-Solutions Manufacturing, Inc. Announces The

Ashcroft GroupAgreement
LENGTH: 448 words
DATELINE: LAS VEGAS, NV; Dec 11, 2006
Bio-Solutions Manufacturing, Inc. (OTCBB: BSLM) (FRANKFURT: B2T)announces

the finalized agreement with The Ashcroft Group, LLC, ledby former Attorney
General of the United States, John D. Ashcroft.
"We are very pleased to have The Ashcroft Group as a businesspartner, and we
are looking forward to the opportunities this venturewill bring," says Mr. David
Bennett, President and CEO ofBio-Solutions Manufacturing, Inc.
"This relationship gives us the ability to develop and market ourbio-diesel

and environmental products at the Federal, State andMunicipal levels as well as
in selected commercial areas."
"They have been engaged to secure access to the highest levels ofdecision
makers who are concerned with reducing environmentalpollution from organic waste
and securing cheaper and more reliablesupplies of diesel fuel. Not only are we
targeting municipalities butalso a wide range of 'closed loop' environments such
as correctionalfacilities and military installations where grease waste is
producedand the converted bio-diesel is in high demand."
"Commercial landfills and large trucking companies need to

reduceenvironmental pollution from their grease deposits and petro-dieselexhaust
fumes -- The Ashcroft Group can help us secure and leveragethe cooperation
needed between public and private interests in theseareas."
About Bio-Solutions Manufacturing, Inc.:
Bio-Solutions has developed superior microbiological formulations forwaste

bioremediation and currently provides these products to manymunicipal collection
systems and a growing number of food servicefacilities in the United States.
Bio-Solutions' products treat waste in an environmentally friendlyand safe

manner in compliance with Federal and State governmentstandards.
Bio-Solutions recently acquired a unique patented grease extractor tobe used

in conjunction with its bioremediation solutions to extractdesired oil and
grease to be converted into value-added products, suchas bio-diesel fuel.
Bio-Solutions has also developed a line of soil amendment productsand

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Wire December 11, 2006 Monday 3:00 AM GMT
procedures to target the improvement of poor soil due tofertilizer burn-out or

soil compaction.
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements:
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements inthis

news release are forward-looking statements that involve risksand uncertainties
and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisionsof the Private Securities
Reform Act of 1995. Forward-lookingstatements involve known and unknown risks
and uncertainties, whichmay cause the Company's actual results in the future
periods todiffer materially from forecasted results.
Contact:
David S. Bennett
President
239-404-3623
SOURCE: Bio-Solutions Manufacturing, Inc.
LOAD-DATE: December 12, 2006
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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LOBBYING REPORT
1. Registrant Name o Organization/Lobbying Firm D Self Employed Individual
Ashcroft Group
2. Address D Check if different than previously reported
Address I 1399 New York Ave., NW Address2 Suite 950

o International Number
Joshua Lawson (202) 942-0202 jlawson@ashcroftgroupllc.com 301196-874

7. Client Name D Self D Check if client is a state or local government or instrumentali(v 6. House ID#
CEELOX 398270002
TYPE OF REPORT 8. Year 2008 Ql (I/] - 3131) D Q2 (4/] - 6/30) 0 Q3 (7/1-9/30) D Q4 (IO/] - 12/31) D
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report D
10. Check if this is a Termination Report 0 Termination Date II. No Lobbying Issue Activity D

was: were:
Less than $5 000 D Less than $5.000

D
$5,000 or more [2] $ $ 40,000.00 $5,000 or more D $
activities on behalf of the cl ient).
D Method A. Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
D Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the

Revenue Code

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Business Wire
November 5, 2007 Monday 9:03 PM GMT
The Ashcroft Group and Communications Equity

Associates Announce Alliance
LENGTH: 525 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON & TAMPA, Fla.
The Ashcroft Group (TAG), led by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and
Communications Equity Associates (CEA), led by J. Patrick (Rick) Michaels, Jr.,
announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance (AshcroftCEA) to
provide strategic consulting and investment and merchant banking services to
middle market and growth companies in the global security arena, including port
security, surveillance, communications, risk management, data and intellectual
property, biometrics, logistics, software and information technology.
With this alliance, TAG and CEA will collaborate on investment opportunities
and business development. This collaboration will bring together seasoned
investment banking professionals and knowledge of theglobal security
marketplace.
"Our government's primary responsibility is to secure life and liberty," said

former AG John Ashcroft. "This would be impossible without the innovation and
assistance of companies dedicated to developing and providing the latest
cutting-edge technology and services in the global security space. This unique
alliance will provide an opportunity to identify, encourage, promote, advise and
provide growth capital to companies dedicated to global security - endeavors
that will further enhance the liberty and security we all enjoy."
In the past two years, TAG played a critical role in over $43 billion in
transaction value related to acquisitions, strategic investments, and anti-trust
issues. CEA has completed over 900 transactions in 60 countries, totaling over
$40 billion in transaction value.
"Along with former Attorney General Ashcroft, CEA recognizes the importance
and priority ofour global security effortsand the value that the private sector
can bring to bear," said Rick Michaels, CEA Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer. "This alliance will not only focus on an industry that shows incredible
growth, but it will also have the opportunity to advance technology and services
that we need for our safety and protection."
The Ashcroft Group is a Washington, DC based firm led by former Attorney

General John Ashcroft, specializing in strategic consulting for corporations
worldwide in homeland security, corporate governance, litigation strategy, and
data security. For more information about The Ashcroft Group,
visitwww.ashcroftgroupllc.com.
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The Ashcroft Group and Communications Equity Associates Announce Alliance
Business Wire November 5, 2007 Monday 9:03 PM GMT
Communications Equity Associates is a leading provider of investment banking

services and private equity for the global media and entertainment,
communications and information technology industries. CEA and its affiliates
also manage, co-manage or participate in a worldwide family of private equity
funds with committed capital of approximately $1.15 billion for private equity
investments in the industries CEA serves. CEA Media Group, LLC is a member of
the NASD and SIPC. For more information about Communications Equity Associates
and its services, visitwww.ceaworldwide.com.
To learn more about AshcroftCEA visit us atwww.ashcroftcea.com.
CONTACT: The Ashcroft Group, LLC, Washington

Juleanna Glover, 202-942-0202
jgw@ashcroftgroupllc.com
or
Communications Equity Associates, Tampa
Sarita Park, 813-226-8844
spark@ceaworldwide.com
URL: http://www.businesswire.com
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors
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About http://www.ashcroftcea.com/About.html
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About http://www.ashcroftcea.com/About.html
About AshcroftCEA
AshcroftCEA is a team of professionals with the vision, commitment, knowledge, and
experience to grow your business and advance security. Whether it is through organic
growth, acquisition, sales, or marketing, AshcroftCEA will be business builders and
accelerators helping you achieve your business objectives.
The Ashcroft Group
Trusted names in the homeland security, criminal justice, and local, state, and federal
markets
Over 20 combined years in senior leadership positions in the Departments of Justice
and Homeland Security
Over 50 combined years on Capitol Hill and at the State management level
Positioned to anticipate market trends and participate in policy development
Experienced in the state and federal grants, contracts, regulations, legislative, and
appropriation processes
Participated in over $43 billion in transaction value related to acquisitions, strategic
investments, and anti-trust issues
Communications Equity Associates

Seasoned investment banking and financial professionals
Completed over 900 transactions in 60 countries, totaling over $40 billion in
transaction value
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Multichannel News
November 5, 2007
Through the Wire

BYLINE: By Kent Gibbons, Linda Moss and Todd Spangler
SECTION: THROUGH THE WIRE; Pg. 33
LENGTH: 879 words
Michaels, Ashcroft Target Security Biz
J. Patrick "Rick" Michaels, the globe-trotting investment banker with deep

roots in cable and broadcasting, is teaming up with former U.S. attorney general
John Ashcroft to build businesses in a new sphere for Michaels: global security.
The chairman and CEO of Communications Equity Associates and Ashcroft, of his
own The Ashcroft Group, are announcing Tuesday (Nov. 6) the formation of
Ashcroft CEA.
Michaels said Friday the new venture would look to acquire a "platform
company" in the homeland security realm, one dependent on contracts from a
reliable customer: the government.
CEA, which Michaels founded in 1973, has connections around the globe. "CEA's
done business in 60 countries, people don't realize that," he said in a phone
interview. "I've been in 110." He still travels 250 days a year.
Michaels said the JV would leverage CEA's and Ashcroft's connections to buy a
company for perhaps $150 million to $500 million, make other "bolt-on"
acquisitions and also grow by obtaining new contracts around the world and
diversifying business lines.
"The real value is in finding something that you can add onto and build," he
said. CEA is in good position to identify acquisition targets and obtain the
financing, he added.
CEA likes the government services sector. For one thing, acquisition targets
typically sell for 3.5 to 6 times annual cash flow, well below the multiples of
media companies. "And the vast majority of the [cash flow] is coming from the
U.S. government," Michaels said. The government is very creditworthy.
"You have to change with the times," the CEA chief said. "Homeland security,
unfortunately, is something that's not going to go away."
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No matter who's in the White House.
AshcroftCEA has a Web site up already (www.ashcroftcea.com ) and 10 employees

dedicated to it from the respective JV partners. Ultimately it will have its own
staff, Michaels said.
AshcroftCEA could put together an investment fund when the current credit
crunch eases. But the best way to enter the business is through a platform
company rather than a fund, Michaels said.
CEA's U.S. cable deals - at one time reported at $400 million a year or so -
have slowed to the point where only Michaels and long-time associate Bob Berger
are still in CEA's Tampa, Fla., office. Michaels also noted the untimely death
of longtime associate Ed Frazier, a Cable TV Pioneer, in January 2006, after a
brief illness at age 57.
But CEA is still doing cable deals, he said, mostly internationally, and has
continued its long association with John Malone's Liberty Media. He also dropped
names of some other fun cable connections, including The Box, also known as
Video Jukebox Network.
"I was the chairman and one of the first four shareholders," said Michaels,
who in the 1960s worked as a disk jockey on a pirate radio station in England.
Liberty bought The Box from Michaels and other investors in 1997.
These TV Scribes Declare They Won't Cross Lines
Last week TV scribes for some of cable's marquee shows voiced their support
for the Writers Guild of America strike.
In an ad that ran in Daily Variety , headlined "Pencils Down Means Pencils

Down," the cable writers were among about 90 scribes who vowed that they would
honor picket lines and not write any more scripts.
The list included Matt Weiner of AMC's Mad Men , Shawn Ryan of FX's The
Shield , Dee Johnson of Lifetime's Army Wives , James Duff of TNT's The Closer ,
Andy Breckman of USA's Monk , Daniel Cerone of Showtime's Dexter , Warren Leight
of USA's Law & Order: Criminal Intent , David Simon of HBO's The Wire and
Steven Peterman and Michael Poryes of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana .
Writers for HBO's Big Love , Sci Fi Channel's Eureka , FX's Dirt , TBS's
Frank TV , ABC Family's Kyle XY , FX's The Riches and Comedy Central's The
Sarah Silverman Program also had their names listed in the ad.
It's unclear how many of these series would be derailed by the strike,
though. FX, for example, says The Shield is OK, as is HBO's The Wire .
But some cable programmers, such as Turner Broadcasting System, have kept mum
about what will happen to their shows.
Sprint Needs to Let Pivot Web Team Into the Loop
Last week, Sprint Nextel told Wall Street it wouldn't be rolling out Pivot to
any more markets beyond the 33 where Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Cable and Bright
House Networks are currently trying to pitch it to subscribers. (See story on
page 3.)
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But somebody may have neglected to give the heads up to Sprint's Web
marketing team. As of midday Friday, the company's Web page showing retail
locations offering Pivot service had the following encouraging words for
visitors: "Don't worry if you don't see your city just yet - we're adding new
markets all the time."
Promo of the Week
Kent Gibbons, Linda Moss, Todd Spangler
Magician and The Rachael Ray Show correspondent Justin Kredible, 27, hit
some New York City bars last Tuesday with eye-candy models, teaching magic
tricks to patrons and promoting Lifeskool's on-demand series Turning Tricks .
The show, set in the East Village's Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction with a
studio audience, sees Kredible break down magic tricks and end episodes with
"aspirational" stunts he doesn't explain. Episodes also are on
www.lifeskooltv.com .
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South Bend Tribune (Indiana)
September 28, 2007 Friday

Michigan Edition
Orthopedics companies settle probe;

$311 million deal resolves federal look into
industry's ties with surgeons.
BYLINE: By ED RONCO, Tribune Staff Writer
SECTION: NATION; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 826 words
WARSAW -- Five orthopedics companies, including three in Kosciusko County,

escaped federal prosecution Thursday as long as they adopt stricter business
practices and agree to 18 months of federal monitoring.
And four of those companies, including the three Warsaw-based firms, will pay
millions of dollars to the government in order to settle claims that they
violated anti-kickback laws.
The government said its investigation revealed that companies paid consulting
fees to surgeons in order to get them to use that company's artificial hip and
knee products.
"The industry routinely violated the anti-kickback statute by paying

physicians for the purpose of exclusively using their products," U.S. Attorney
Christopher J. Christie said in a statement. "Prior to our investigation, many
orthopedic surgeons in this country made decisions predicated on how much money
they could make -- choosing which device to implant by going to the highest
bidder."
To settle the claims, Warsaw-based companies Biomet Inc., Zimmer Inc. and
DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., along with Smith & Nephew Inc., which has U.S.
headquarters in Memphis, Tenn., will pay a combined total of $311 million to the
government.
Kalamazoo-based Stryker Orthopedics Inc. cooperated with the government

before any other company, the U.S. Attorney's Office statement said. Therefore,
it did not pay settlement money, but still has to adhere to the compliance and
monitoring conditions accepted by the other companies.
But Stryker, unlike the other companies, will not be immune from civil
liability or sanctions by the Department of Health and Human Services as a
result of its settlement.
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industry's ties with surgeons. South Bend Tribune (Indiana) September 28, 2007
Friday
The lion's share of the settlement money -- $169.5 million -- will come from
Zimmer, but the government said the different amounts paid by the companies is
"reflective of market share and other related business factors... not the
relative culpability among the companies."
DePuy will pay $84.7 million, Biomet will pay $26.9 million, and Smith &
Nephew will pay $28.9 million to the government.
The companies each issued statements Thursday emphasizing that none of them
admitted to any wrongdoing, and saying the settlement will lead to greater
transparency in the way device makers deal with surgeons.
Ethics
In April, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons adopted additional

standards of professionalism to specifically address relationships between
medical practitioners and the orthopedics industry.
The standards, which take effect on Jan. 1, say a conflict of interest occurs
when doctors have financial or positional ties to the industry that could be
perceived as influencing the surgeon's obligation to act in the best interest of
the patient.
The standards also call on orthopedic surgeons to:
Decline subsidies or other financial support from the industry, except for
gifts with a market value of less than $100, medical textbooks, or patient
educational materials.
Disclose relationships with the industry.
Accept no direct financial inducements for using a particular implant or for

switching from one manufacturer's product to another.
Enter into consulting agreements only when a service is actually needed, and
provide proof that the service was provided. Reimbursement for the services have
to be at fair market value, and not based on the volume or value of business the
surgeon generates.
In addition to the standards, the academy has ongoing efforts to educate its
more than 30,000 members about acceptable practices, said Dr. James Beaty,
president of the academy and a practicing surgeon in Memphis.
Beaty said he didn't know whether surgeons were being investigated by the
U.S. Attorney's Office.
And while U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Michael Drewniak said the
investigation is continuing, he declined to say whether physicians were being
contacted.
Nothing new
Surgeons who had agreements with orthopedic companies ended up with pretty
good deals that included tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual
compensation, along with trips and other perks, said a statement from the U.S.
Attorney's Office in New Jersey.
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industry's ties with surgeons. South Bend Tribune (Indiana) September 28, 2007
Friday
The issue of how close physicians get to the vendors that supply their parts
and medicine is not a new one, said Dr. Rudy Navari, professor of medicine and
assistant dean and director of the Indiana University School of Medicine at
South Bend.
"I think there's a lot of influence by pharmaceutical companies and medical

device companies on physicians," he said. "You should use the device that is
best for your patient with the least side effects, that costs the least."
Navari, an oncologist, has been practicing medicine since 1983.
Companies can exert that influence in many ways, he said.
"Those things go under the title of 'medical education,'" he said. "But it's
more than education, it's advertising. This is big, big business, and I think
physicians need to be very careful about how they're influenced."
Staff writer Ed Ronco: eronco@sbtinfo.com (574) 235-6467
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
GRAPHIC: The settlement The five companies involved in the settlement all agreed
to be monitored by the government for 18 months. Here's a look at how much money
they paid and who will be monitoring their practices: Zimmer Inc. Based:
Warsaw Will pay: $169.5 million Monitor: Former U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft, chairman of Ashcroft Group LLC in Washington, D.C. DePuy
Orthopaedics Inc. Based: Warsaw Will pay: $84.7 million Monitor: Debra
Yang, former U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, partner at
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles. Smith & Nephew Inc. Based: London
(U.S. Headquarters in Memphis, Tenn.) Will pay: $28.9 million Monitor: David
Samson, former Attorney General of New Jersey, partner at Wolff & Samson in West
Orange, N.J. Biomet Orthopedics Inc. Based: Warsaw Will pay: $26.9 million
Monitor: David Kelley, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New
York in Manhattan, partner at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York City.
Stryker Orthopedics Inc. Based: Mahwah, N.J. Will pay: $0 Monitor: John
Carley, former senior vice president for legal affairs at Cendant Corp., counsel
to the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan administration. Source: U.S.
Department of Justice
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The Washington Post
March 12, 2008 Wednesday

Suburban Edition
Ashcroft Defends Contract for His Firm;

Democrats Questioning No-Bid Deal
BYLINE: Dan Eggen; Washington Post Staff Writer
SECTION: A-SECTION; Pg. A03
LENGTH: 571 words
Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft defended a government-sanctioned

contract yesterday that could earn his consulting firm more than $50 million,
saying that nothing is improper about the selection made by one of his former
U.S. attorneys.
Ashcroft has come under scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers since he accepted
a no-bid contract to oversee the operations of a medical equipment company that
is accused of giving kickbacks to doctors. He was chosen for the job by U.S.
Attorney Christopher J. Christie of New Jersey, a Republican who once worked for
him.
"There is not a conflict," Ashcroft said. "There is not an appearance of

conflict."
His testimony to the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and

administrative law marked his first appearance before Congress since he left his
post as head of the Justice Department in early 2005.
Ashcroft, who sparred regularly with lawmakers during his four years as
attorney general, joined fellow Republicans on the panel yesterday in lashing
out at Democrats for questioning the propriety of the contract.
He also used the occasion to herald some of his accomplishments as attorney

general, including a decline in crime rates and the creation of aggressive
anti-terrorism programs.
Ashcroft is now a lobbyist who runs his own Washington consulting firm, the
Ashcroft Group LLC, which was awarded a contract last fall to oversee the
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operations of Zimmer Holdings of Warsaw, Ind. The company, which is the world's
largest manufacturer of knee and hip implants, avoided prosecution for allegedly
paying doctors to use its products, according to the settlement.
The deal is expected to earn Ashcroft's firm $28 million to $52 million over
18 months, according to financial filings.
Subcommittee Chairman Linda T. Sanchez (D-Calif.) said the arrangement

"appeared to be a backroom, sweetheart deal," because Christie chose the firm
without competition.
Sanchez also said that, until this week, "the parties to these agreements
were operating in a Wild West environment with no laws and no Justice Department
guidelines."
The Justice Department imposed new restrictions Monday that require U.S.
attorneys to obtain approval from Justice headquarters for such agreements and
to form special committees to review applications for the assignments.
Ashcroft said that outside monitors, which have been used increasingly in
corporate fraud cases in recent years, save taxpayers money by avoiding costly
prosecutions and by forcing companies to follow the law.
"This hearing cost far more in tax dollars than my monitorship will cost,
because it did not cost taxpayers one thin dime," Ashcroft testified. Under the
arrangements, the cost of the monitoring is covered by the company, which agrees
to pay for oversight and structural changes in the way it does business, to
avoid prosecution.
The practice has become more popular since the 2002 indictment of accounting
firm Arthur Andersen LLP, which was convicted of obstructing justice.
Prosecutors view deferred prosecutions, with monitoring arrangements, as a way
to avoid closing a company altogether while ensuring compliance with the law.
Typically, U.S. attorneys defer the threat of prosecution as a way to

maintain leverage over the companies' future conduct. Such deferred prosecutions
have until recent years been used primarily for nonviolent juvenile and drug
offenders, rather than for large corporations suspected of wrongdoing.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DISTRIBUTION: Maryland
GRAPHIC: IMAGE; By Alex Wong -- Getty Images; "There is not an appearance of

conflict," ex-attorney general John Ashcroft, right, testified, referring to a
no-bid contract his consulting firm received.

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January 10, 2008
Ashcroft Deal Brings Scrutiny in Justice Dept.

By PHILIP SHENON
Correction Appended
WASHINGTON — When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to
monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out of court last fall, he turned to former
Attorney General John Ashcroft, his onetime boss. With no public notice and no bidding, the company
awarded Mr. Ashcroft an 18-month contract worth $28 million to $52 million.
That contract, which Justice Department officials in Washington learned about only several weeks ago, has
prompted an internal inquiry into the department’s procedures for selecting outside monitors to police
settlements with large companies.
The contract between Mr. Ashcroft’s consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group, and Zimmer Holdings, a medical
supply company in Indiana, has also drawn the attention of Congressional investigators.
The New Jersey prosecutor, United States Attorney Christopher J. Christie, directed similar monitoring
contracts last year to two other former Justice Department colleagues from the Bush administration, as well
as to a former Republican state attorney general in New Jersey.
Officials said that while there had been no accusations of wrongdoing on the part of Mr. Christie or Mr.
Ashcroft, aides to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey were concerned about the appearance of
favoritism.
Mr. Mukasey, a former federal judge who was sworn in as attorney general in November, has vowed to
remove political considerations from decision-making at the department in the wake of a series of scandals
under his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzales.
Mr. Ashcroft was awarded the contract last fall at the direction of Mr. Christie as part of his office’s
settlement of criminal accusations against Zimmer Holdings and four smaller firms accused of paying
kickbacks to doctors.
A spokesman for Mr. Ashcroft said that the Ashcroft Group had not lobbied for the contract but was pleased
by the referral.
The disclosure of the monitoring agreement, in which Mr. Ashcroft’s fees are paid directly by Zimmer,
prompted Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey to question if the contract was new evidence of political
favoritism in the Bush administration’s long-embattled Justice Department.
Justice Department officials said the internal inquiry by the Criminal Division began several weeks ago with
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no public announcement.
Department officials said the review was expected to result this year in formal guidelines to prevent the
appearance of conflicts in the choice of monitors to oversee out-of-court settlements reached between
federal prosecutors and companies accused of wrongdoing.
In the Bush administration, federal prosecutors have increasingly relied on out-of-court settlements with
large corporations in criminal investigations that in the past might have resulted in indictments and trials.
The settlements often call for outside lawyers to be retained by the companies to monitor the agreements.
The contracts call for the lawyers to monitor the company’s compliance with the settlements through
financial audits and other types of internal investigations.
A new study by two Texas lawyers, Lawrence D. Finder and Ryan D. McConnell, found that the number of
so-called deferred-prosecution or nonprosecution agreements between the department and large
companies grew to 35 last year from 5 in 2003.
Often, the names of corporate monitors are not made public. The internal inquiry started after Zimmer
Holdings revealed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission in late October that it had hired
Mr. Ashcroft’s consulting firm, based in Washington, to monitor its settlement of criminal charges based on
accusations of kickbacks to doctors involving the company’s knee and hip implants.
The firm said Mr. Christie had directed it to hire Mr. Ashcroft. Mr. Christie has acknowledged that he chose
Mr. Ashcroft for the assignment. The disclosures in Zimmer’s filings about Mr. Ashcroft were first reported
several weeks ago by The Star-Ledger of Newark and other New Jersey news organizations.
Mr. Christie directed similar contracts in settlements with other medical-supply companies to two other
former Justice Department colleagues — David N. Kelley, the former United States attorney in Manhattan,
and Debra Wong Yang, his counterpart in Los Angeles — and to David Samson, the former Republican
attorney general in New Jersey.
In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Mr. Christie said he chose Mr. Ashcroft and the others for the
monitoring assignments because they had impeccable legal credentials and he knew and trusted them.
“It’s really important that the working relationship between this office and the monitors is very, very close,”
he said. “I can’t tell you how much work we do with these monitors.” He said he had selected Mr. Ashcroft
to work with Zimmer, the largest of five companies in the criminal investigation, because “I knew he was
somebody who understands these issues and would be taken seriously by the company as an authority
figure.”
Mr. Christie has disputed accusations raised by Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey that it was a conflict
of interest for him to direct large, no-bid contracts to former colleagues and friends, but he has referred
those questions to the Justice Department in Washington.
Department officials said they had no formal comment but noted that the monitoring agreements were not
given only to Republicans and that Mr. Christie’s recommendations of outside monitors in other large
corporate investigations had been praised.
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Although he was a prosecutor in the Bush administration, Mr. Kelley has registered as a Democrat in the
past. Mr. Kelley, who has done legal work for The New York Times, did not respond to e-mail messages on
Wednesday. Mr. Samson and Ms. Yang did not return phone calls.
The dollar value of the contracts obtained by Mr. Kelley, Ms. Yang and Mr. Samson is unclear, since the
medical-supply companies they are monitoring have not revealed those details, suggesting that they are
smaller than Mr. Ashcroft’s.
Under the settlements with the Justice Department, the companies negotiate the fees with the monitors
themselves, a situation legal scholars say has the potential for abuse because companies might be overly
generous to encourage leniency.
Department officials said that there were few internal guidelines for hiring independent monitors and that
Mr. Christie was not required to seek approval from the Justice Department to name Mr. Ashcroft and the
others and had not done so.
A spokesman for Mr. Ashcroft’s firm, Mark Corallo, said that Mr. Ashcroft was an obvious choice as a
monitor.
“I know John Ashcroft, I know his capabilities,” Mr. Corallo said. “No matter what people think of his
politics, he ran an unbelievably efficient operation at Justice as a manager. He understands the law. He
understands how to manage an enormous organization.”
He said that Mr. Ashcroft knew nothing about the assignment until the possibility was raised by Mr.
Christie, who was nominated for his position in 2001, the year Mr. Ashcroft was sworn in as attorney
general. Mr. Christie had been a lawyer in private practice and a Republican fund-raiser in New Jersey.
Mr. Corallo said that Mr. Ashcroft’s firm had hired more than 30 employees and outside advisers, including
accountants and lawyers, to oversee the monitoring contract and that Mr. Ashcroft had traveled to Indiana
several times for the assignment.
“It’s taken a large personal commitment from him,” Mr. Corallo said, adding, “In coming months, people
will realize that Chris Christie did exactly the right thing in choosing these folks to be monitors.”
In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Zimmer said it had agreed to pay the Ashcroft
firm a monthly fee of $750,000, and to reimburse it for expenses that were expected to total $150,000 to
$250,000 a month.
Correction: January 14, 2008
A front-page article on Thursday about a contract awarded to the consulting firm of former Attorney
General John Ashcroft misstated the year that Mr. Ashcroft was sworn in. It was 2001, not 2002. The article
also misstated the year of the selection of Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney in New Jersey,
who directed the contract to Mr. Ashcroft’s firm. Mr. Christie was nominated on Dec. 7, 2001, not in 2002.
(He was sworn in on Jan. 17, 2002.)
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The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
November 20, 2007 Tuesday

FINAL EDITION
$52M-plus payday for Christie's old boss

Ashcroft firm to monitor med-implant settlement
BYLINE: JOHN P. MARTIN AND JEFF WHELAN, STAR-LEDGER STAFF
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 1268 words
When U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie announced a $311 million settlement

to end a probe into kickbacks by leading manufacturers of knee and hip
replacements, he touted the agreement as a groundbreaking development for
consumers and the industry.
The deal also proved to be lucrative for Christie's old boss.
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft was one of five private attorneys
whom Christie hand-picked to monitor the implant makers. Now Ashcroft's
D.C.-based firm is poised to collect more than $52 million in 18 months, among
the biggest payouts reported for a federal monitor.
Disclosed in SEC filings, the arrangement calls for Zimmer Holdings of

Indiana to pay Ashcroft Group Consulting Services an average monthly fee between
$1.5 million and $2.9 million. The figure includes a flat payment of $750,000 to
the firm's "senior leadership group," individual legal and consulting services
billed at up to $895 an hour, and as much as $250,000 a month for expenses
including private airfare, lodging and meals.
A spokesman for Ashcroft said yesterday the former attorney general was
"uniquely qualified" for the role as monitor and more than 30 professionals at
his firm were working on the matter. The spokesman, Mark Corallo, called the fee
structure "consistent with any other large-scale monitoring circumstances," but
could not immediately point to similar cases.
Christie said he was not involved in setting Ashcroft's fee, but that no one
had objected to the compensation. He said prosecutors did not impose fines on
Zimmer and the other implant makers because they knew the companies would be
paying substantial monitoring fees.
"These companies visited this upon themselves with their criminal conduct,"
Christie said. "Given what these companies were costing the American taxpayers,
the fees that these monitors charge for changing the industry's practices will
be a real bargain at the end of the day."
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settlement The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) November 20, 2007 Tuesday
Prosecutors have appointed dozens of corporate monitors in recent years, but

their compensation agreements are almost always secret. Former SEC Chairman
Richard Breeden, a monitor in several high-profile cases, reportedly billed
Worldcom $300,000 a month to oversee the aftermath of what was then one of the
largest corporate accounting scandals.
Zimmer spokesman Brad Bishop said the company decided to disclose Ashcroft's
contract because "it was our judgment that it was a large amount outside of our
normal course of business." Bishop added, "We've allowed that it could be
greater than we anticipate."
Spokespersons for the other four companies - Stryker Corp., Biomet Inc.,
Smith and Nephew PLC, and Depuy Inc., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary - declined
to discuss their contracts. Christie said he would not release copies of the
agreements because they involved "private" contracts.
Christie said Ashcroft was the best choice to monitor Zimmer because the
former attorney general had run a 120,000-employee department and "understands
organization structure and how to get things done" in a corporate setting.
"I certainly don't think it's a problem to hire somebody who used to be your
boss but no longer is," said Christie. "What am I getting out of this exactly? I
can tell you, I'm getting nothing, except the comfort in hiring people I know I
can trust to do the job."
Ashcroft, a former U.S. senator from Missouri, took the reins of the Justice
Department in 2001, the same year President Bush nominated Christie to be the
top federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. Three years later, the
attorney general tapped Christie to be one of 17 U.S. attorneys on an advisory
panel he regularly consulted.
Ashcroft resigned in 2005. It's not clear if his successor, Alberto Gonzales,
held the same esteem for his underling in New Jersey. Documents released this
year showed that Gonzales' aides had considered replacing Christie last year,
but decided not to fire him.
Based in part on his office's success in corruption prosecutions, the

45-year-old former securities attorney and GOP fundraiser has emerged as the
party's favorite in the 2009 race for governor. He has not disclosed his plans.
For decades, federal prosecutors used monitors as watchdogs for labor unions
and other havens of organized crime. In recent years, the Justice Department has
encouraged the practice in corporate investigations, particularly after the
collapses of business giants like Enron. Such concessions enable companies to
stave off a potentially crippling criminal trial, while letting regulators
trumpet their efforts to protect consumers and investors.
Experts say companies rarely are in a position to choose their monitors or

haggle over their costs.
"The federal government is coming in saying, `You shall hire this monitor,'"
said Jim Cotterman, a principal with Altman Weil, a legal consulting firm in
Pennsylvania. "You are not going to negotiate much on fees or get a competitive
bid."
The $311 million settlement, announced in September, ended a two-year federal

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probe into allegations that the firms paid surgeons millions of dollars to use
and promote their knee and hip replacements, a violation of Medicare fraud
statutes.
Four of the companies signed agreements in which they admitted no wrongdoing

but agreed to pay the government between $26 million and $169 million. Zimmer
paid the heftiest settlement - more than double any other company. A fifth
defendant, Stryker Corp., avoided paying any settlement.
All the companies agreed to hire a monitor to ensure they comply with the law
and a set of reforms imposed by the prosecutors.
Besides Ashcroft, the other monitors tapped by Christie are David Kelley,
former U.S. attorney in Manhattan; Debra Yang, former U.S. attorney in Los
Angeles; David Samson, former New Jersey attorney general, and John Carley, a
former attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and later Cendant Corp.
"I picked these five people because I have worked with them and I trust them
and I know that they will approach their job in a responsible way both in terms
of the fees they charge and the effort that they put in," Christie said when he
announced the settlements.
Each negotiated his or her compensation, although Ashcroft's company is the

only one to charge both a flat fee and bill hourly rates, Christie said.
Yang, Kelley and Samson did not return calls and e-mails seeking comment.
Carley could not be reached.
Christie said Ashcroft already traveled to Indiana three times for interviews
at Zimmer, and that he plans to travel there a few times a month.
Ashcroft launched his Washington-based lobbying and consulting firm in 2005.

He also serves as a visiting law professor at Regent University, serves on
various boards, and is writing a memoir.
His spokesman, Corallo, declined to detail Ashcroft's specific duties as

Zimmer's monitor but said he is playing an active role. He said the firm also
includes several former Justice Department lawyers and executives with
experience at the top rung of the business ladder.
"This team combines the talents and experience of professionals with a

business perspective including the importance of continuity of operations,
corporate governance, law enforcement and best management practices," he said.
John P. Martin may be reached at (609) 989-0379 or jmartin@starledger.com

Jeff Whelan may be reached at (973) 622-3405 or jwhelan@starledger.com
Photo Credit: MIKE DERER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Infobox: "Given what these companies were costing the American taxpayers, the
fees that these monitors charge for changing the industry's practices will be a
real bargain at the end of the day." -U.S. ATTORNEY CHRIS CHRISTIE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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GRAPHIC: U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, second from left, is joined by his
old boss, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, second from right, at a
news conference in September at which Christie announced five makers of medical
implants had agreed to a $311 million settlement to resolve concerns over
alleged doctor kickbacks. Ashcroft's law firm and others were chosen by Christie
as federal monitors in the settlement.
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November 10, 2004, Wednesday

Attorney general, commerce secretary resign from Bush's Cabinet

To date there have been no jury convictions on post-Sept. 11 terror charges.

But that is far from a consensus view.

but he has indicated he would like to remain in his job.

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The New York Times

March 17, 2006 Friday

John Ashcroft Sets Up Shop As Well-Connected

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As attorney general, John Ashcroft was a model of moral rectitude to his

To do so, he has amassed a staff of Republican insiders and rented fancy

Since opening his office in September, he has lined up 21 clients, turning

Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight,

to have any business expertise.''

''What is he selling,'' Ms. Brian asked, ''other than connections and

One of Mr. Ashcroft's newest clients is ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer

''The Ashcroft Group contacted us and we initiated a relationship,'' said

In 2001, only 15 companies lobbied officials regarding domestic security.

In a mission statement to prospective clients, he boasts of his

Glover Weiss, a Republican lobbyist and a former press secretary to Vice

After three decades in public office in Missouri and Washington, Mr.

So after having a salary that topped out at $175,700 as attorney general,

To maintain his conservative ties, Mr. Ashcroft signed up as a visiting law

While Mr. Ashcroft is prohibited by law from contacting the department

Other clients include eBay, Israel Aircraft Industries International, LTU

LTU Technologies, a software company, hired Mr. Ashcroft to find more

F.B.I. and customs officials.

In the war on terror, the government is increasingly turning to these

Today, government contracts represent about 14 percent of ChoicePoint's $1

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information

In counseling troubled companies, Mr. Ashcroft is entering a crowded field

''Every major law firm is trying to do special investigations,'' said

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Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)

January 22, 2006, Sunday

Ashcroft reaping rewards of private sector

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The Ashcroft Group

Lobbying client, when hired, fees paid as of Dec. 31, 2005:

American Institute of Certified

WASHINGTON - John Ashcroft has a rich life and a new joke.

He spent the past year relaxing and setting up a lucrative Washington

Headquartered in a high-rent downtown office building with views of the White

That's just a fraction of the seven-person firm's total earnings since it

Much of the firm's work for its 15 or so clients involves "confidential

That may not be surprising, given Ashcroft's high-profile tenure as attorney

"It becomes a questionable situation when these people's past relationships

David Israelite, a longtime Ashcroft aide who now is president of the

dropped an antitrust investigation of Oracle, which was begun under Ashcroft,

The Ashcroft Group's other lobbying clients include ChoicePoint, a data

"One of the things John wanted to do was continue to help in homeland

For Ashcroft, a successful business would be his first significant