The Center for Responsive Politics says the payment to one of Najib’s agents was ‘interrupted’ and that Jho Low is on record as having paid RM5.6 billion for PR work.
KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, is hiring a phalanx of public relations firms, lawyers and agents to shore up his image in the wake of the 1MDB scandal, says a Washington DC-based non-profit, non-partisan think tank.
It says Najib’s “foreign agent on record” at the Ashcroft Law Firm is Mark Corallo, a former spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s private legal team in the Russia investigation. CRP notes that another firm promoting Najib’s interests, the 45 Group, “reported being paid six-figures by another firm that is registered in the British Virgin Islands but lists an address in Malaysia”.
According to CRP, Levick Strategic Communications, a firm recently hired by Kobre and Kim, raked in a US$50,000 advance retainer to provide “strategic communications advice, counsel and execution in contemplation of ongoing, high-profile investigations with heavy press scrutiny” and “related to various ongoing legal proceedings”, from Feb 21 through March 6.
“Other Fara records dating back to June 2018 set out other lucrative deals like a US$50,000 per month fee paid by Kobre and Kim to PRCG Haggerty LLC for the first three months of service. According to CRP, Kobre and Kim agreed to pay US$55,000 per month to Marathon Strategies — a firm founded by longtime Democratic campaign operative Phil Singer — for media relations and digital services starting in August 2018. A provision in the contract also left open the potential for additional spending on things like video production.
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