Trent Lott's company made $450,000 from a Kremlin -controlled bank that was the target of US sanctions.
Oh, and Haley Barbour reaped some cash also.
Bloomberg
Reports:
- While Russia may be angry about international sanctions over the
Ukraine conflict, Beltway lawyers are mopping up and big names in
lobbying are piling in.
Consider that last year, the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm of
former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott raked in $300,000 from
Kremlin-controlled OAO Gazprombank, which was a target of sanctions. The
Gazprombank billings for Lott’s firm are about double what Lott made in
annual salary during any of his 18 years in the Senate.
Other high-profile ex-senators like John Breaux of Louisiana and Don
Nickles of Oklahoma are also getting in on the Russian action, as is
Haley Barbour, the former governor of Mississippi.
What’s driving this is no mystery. While the West expresses
displeasure at President Vladimir Putin’s deadly Ukraine adventuring and
the human toll it is taking, other things are at stake -- notably
billions of dollars of investments on both sides of the Atlantic in
Russia’s energy and finance sectors.