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Exhibit 1290

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings naming RAI Services Company (Reynolds American) as client, 2025 and 2026

Exhibit 1290 ยท Dataset query

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings naming RAI Services Company (Reynolds American) as client, 2025 and 2026

In 2025, 20 outside registrants with income reported $3.445 million for RAI Services Company, and RAI Services reported $7.26 million of its own lobbying expenses. For the first three quarters of 2026: 17 outside registrants, $2.735 million; $5.84 million of expenses. Ballard Partners reported $560,000 in 2025 and $550,000 for the first three quarters of 2026; outside registrants also include BGR, Capitol Counsel, King and Spalding, Miller and Chevalier, OnMessage Public Strategies and Williams and Jensen.

Source
U.S. Congress (Lobbying Disclosure Act database, lda.gov); query by Lacuna
Date
run 10 November 2026
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://lda.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=rai+services&filing_year=2025
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Results in research/politics-2026-ballard/lda-top-firms-dataset.json (rai_services_lobbying_2025_2026_q1_q3). One subcontract (Old North Strategies for Peter Damon Group) may overlap another registrant's fee.

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Finding POL-1.19
Primary record RAI Services Company has been a Ballard client every year from 2017. It paid $440,000 in each of 2017, 2018 and 2019, $560,000 in 2025 and $550,000 for the first three quarters of 2026. In 2025 it reported 20 outside lobbying firms with $3.445 million in income, and Ballard's fee was the largest.
Finding POL-1.20
Primary record Ballard's Lobbying Disclosure Act reports for RAI Services list "White House Office" among the entities contacted in the second and third quarters of 2026, and list the Food and Drug Administration. The first-quarter 2026 report lists only the House, and the 2025 reports list no White House Office. In those two quarters no other outside lobbying firm for RAI Services lists the White House Office.