He has the endorsement of the rump Jubilee Party founded by Kenyatta and Ruto ahead of the 2013 elections and is thought to have Kenyatta's personal support which reportedly funded a $250 000 retainer for veteran Africa lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe (AC Vol 65 No 17 Kenyatta's favourite minister plans presidential bid)...
Fred Matiang'i the former Interior Minister and close ally of Kenyatta who recently registered with Israeli lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe to help launch a presidential bid is another option but he has limited appeal (AC Vol 65 No 17 Kenyatta's favourite minister plans presidential bid)...
United States-based Matiang'i has hired veteran lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe on a $250 000 a year retainer according to filings in Washington DC under the Foreign Agents Registration Act...
The flurry of new client activity continues for Ari Ben-Menashe the Israeli former spy and arms dealer turned political lobbyist...
The documents filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) detail a standard political and media lobbying retainer except that Schmitz is listed as the parliament's representative Since 2016 the powerful speaker of the Tobruk-based Parliament Aguila Saleh had a contract worth US$6 million per year with arms dealer turned lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe...
Perhaps to manage those concerns Damiba's junta has hired veteran Israeli lobbyist and arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe on a $500 000 per year retainer to influence policy-makers in the United States and to secure arms for the junta which has been threatened with wider economic and military sanctions (AC Vol 60 No 20 Out of contract and Vol 60 No 16 Lobbyist of last resort)...
On the face of it it is just another lucrative lobbying deal with Israeli arms dealer turned lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe bagging another US$1 million contract to add Tunisian media mogul and presidential hopeful Nabil Karoui to a client list that includes Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti deputy leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (AC Vol 60 No 16 Lobbyist of last resort)...
Under the terms of Hemeti's public relations contract with US lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe (see Pointer Lobbyist of last resort) he is said to have despatched a further 1 000 fighters to support General Khalifa Haftar's rebel forces based in eastern Libya...
The widely publicised US$6 million lobbying contract between controversial Washington lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti deputy leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) to supply the Sudanese military secure meetings with international leaders and 'correct unfavourable international media coverage' of the junta has prompted outrage in Khartoum civil society...
In July 2018 he hired veteran Israeli intelligence operative and former Robert Mugabe lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe on a $2m retainer to lobby the Fund at its United States headquarters (AC Vol 59 No 16 This bum for hire)...