US lobbyists get $1m in effort to secure permit for European routes

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Former top US transportation civil servant John Byerly


Filings collated by the Centre for Responsive Politics in the US show that Norwegian Air Shuttle paid $450,000 in lobbying fees in 2014. That included $360,000 to Washington-based public relations firm Prime Policy Group, and $90,000 to John Byerly.

Mr Byerly is a former deputy assistant secretary for transportation affairs at the US State Department. In 2015, Norwegian paid $360,000 to Prime Group and $60,000 to Mr Byerly.

So far this year, Prime Group has been paid $180,000, and Mr Byerly has received $40,000 from Norwegian. Mr Byerly also has also lobbied on issues in the US on behalf of Emirates.



US lobbyists get $1m in effort to secure permit for European routes - Independent.ie

 

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Lobbyists taking huge corporate payments to lobby congress? My God that is incredibly startling and unexpected.