Sector
Outside lobbying firms
Documented money flows
- Bayer to Outside lobbying firms, lobbying, $9,190,000, 2025. Exhibit 132
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- POL-2.13: Baumgartner and colleagues studied 98 issues drawn from interviews with registered lobbyists and report that 60 percent of lobbying campaigns failed to change policy. Measured resources explain less than 5 percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessful efforts.
- POL-6.2: DOJ's registrant files show 66 new FARA registrations in 2014, 150 in 2019 and 138 in 2025. DOJ's report for July to December 2025 lists 565 active registrants representing 858 foreign principals, and the inspector general counted 916 active registrations in 1987 and 360 at the end of 2014.
- POL-6.10: DOJ's report for July to December 2025 lists 29 registrants with a Qatar-related foreign principal, and 19 of them report amounts received. The largest listed amounts are $1,820,400 for Finn Partners from Qatar Museums and $420,000 each for BGR Government Affairs and Bachner Group.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 709 19 July 2008. Baumgartner, Berry, Hojnacki, Kimball and Leech (manuscript hosted by the authors): Advocacy and Policy Change, pre-publication manuscript of Lobbying and Policy Change (19 July 2008)
- Exhibit 822 2026. U.S. Department of Justice: Report of the Attorney General to the Congress on the Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, six months ending December 31, 2025