Mubarak's law firm! A lobbying firm as well as a law firm. When Mubarak was under pressure from his own people to step down, Frank Wisner went to Egypt to help out the dictator, stating that 'Mubarak has to stay' at a time when Obama had said he needed to step down.
Our Man In Egypt Works For EgyptWhy would Wisner throw Mubarak a lifeline? Perhaps because he's a client of Wisner's law firm.
Wisner, a career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to Egypt and India, cashed out at the State Department and now works as a foreign affairs adviser for Patton Boggs, the ludicrously juiced law firm and lobbying operation that secretly runs everything in Washington. And Patton Boggs has extensive ties to Mubarak's regime
Patton Boggs website boasts that they represent: "
some of the leading Egyptian commercial families and their companies, and we have been involved in oil and gas and telecommunications infrastructure projects on their behalf."One of those "leading Egyptian commercial families" is that of Ahmed Ezz, a loathed steel magnate and close confidant of Mubarak's son Gamal who has been accused by protesters of "suck the blood of the people" by using his party connections to lock down the steel market. According to lobbying disclosure reports filed with the Senate, Patton Boggs (though not Wisner himself) lobbied on behalf of Ezz to the tune of $20,000 in 2007. And foreign agent registrations on file with the Department of Justice show that the firm entered into a retainer agreement with the Egyptian Embassy in 1990. It's unclear how long that relationship lasted, but a Patton Boggs representative told Salon's Elliott Justin that with the exception of a "small legal matter last year" that it worked on for the Egyptian Embassy—i.e., Mubarak—the firm hasn't done any Egypt work since the mid-1990s.
Anyway, it would be shocking to imagine that Wisner's out-of-tune support for the Egyptian dictator would have anything to do with his law firm's long-standing relationships with Mubarak cronies. Also, before Wisner worked at Patton Boggs, he spent 12 years at AIG. So there's that.
Looks like Prosser is bringing in the heavy hitters ~ Patton Boggs
"the ludicrously juiced law firm and lobbying operation that secretly runs everything in Washington"
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