04.09.2014 - 12:38 [ The Wire ]

Two Former Senators Are Helping a Russian Bank Fight U.S. Sanctions

When you‘re a Russian company trying to manage U.S. sanctions it helps to have friends in the right places. That‘s probably why Gazprombank, a Russian bank hit by sanctions earlier this year, named former U.S. senators Trent Lott and John Breaux as its lobbyists. The two were listed as the main lobbyists on the bank‘s account with the firm Squire Patton Boggs, according to a Friday filing reported by the Center for Public Integrity.