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Gray Loeffler LLC was an advisory and consulting firm (lobbying firm), representing clients' interests before government electoral apparatus and agencies. It was co-founded with a merger in September 2009 of the Amani Group led by former Democratic congressman and Democratic Party Whip, William H. Gray III who currently serves on the Board of Directors of J.P. Morgan Chase,
Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfize ...
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Dell Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies. Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
, from Philadelphia and the conservative Republican congressman from Texas, Thomas Loeffler and his firm, the Loeffler Group. Tom Loeffler was a key fundraiser and "general co-chairman for the 2008 Republican Presidential candidate,
John McCain John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two te ...
, who was forced to resign when Newsweek Magazine disclosed that he was a lobbyist on behalf of Saudi Arabia and had received $15 million in compensation from the Saudi Arabian government since 2002. The firm has offices located in Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida. Gray Loeffler were recently retained at the end of 2009 to help lobby the efforts of the
Comcast Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...
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merger before the respective
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congressional committees that will have to approve the corporate combination. Another prominent client,
General Motors The General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is the largest automaker in the United States and ...
, retained Gray Loeffler for "general lobbying services" in 2010, to protect their interests on a federal level. It was unspecified by GM exactly what those services would include.


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Gray Loeffler website

Business Week profile

Groups That Have Retained GrayLoeffler and Income Received for 2009, from the Open Secrets database
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