Comments on: Corporate Lobbying Goes from Fake to Fraud http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/734 chronicling corporate misbehavior (and how to research it) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Friday roundup, Aug. 7, 2009 « Coal Tattoo http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/734/comment-page-1#comment-2320 Friday roundup, Aug. 7, 2009 « Coal Tattoo Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:32:17 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=734#comment-2320 [...] via The New York Times and in The Washington Post. Also, a reader pointed out this item in the blog Dirt Diggers Digest on this whole [...] [...] via The New York Times and in The Washington Post. Also, a reader pointed out this item in the blog Dirt Diggers Digest on this whole [...]

]]> By: Augie http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/734/comment-page-1#comment-1819 Augie Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:27:31 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=734#comment-1819 talkingpointsmemo.com has also kept an eye on the Bonner bamboozles "Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), whose office has received eight letters forged by lobbyist firm Bonner and Associates, .....revealed the names of two more groups whose name was signed to the letters without their permission, the Washington Post reports. The two other groups where the Jefferson Council on Aging, and the Charlottesville chapter of the American Association of University Women. "We've worked a long time to build up a reputation, and keep our name untarnished, and the notion that someone would come along and take that name ..... it's deceit. It's outright deceit," said Lisa Maatz, the group's director of public policy and government relations, told the Post. Maatz also said the AAUW doesn't have a Charlottesville chapter." talkingpointsmemo.com has also kept an eye on the Bonner bamboozles

“Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), whose office has received eight letters forged by lobbyist firm Bonner and Associates,

…..revealed the names of two more groups whose name was signed to the letters without their permission, the Washington Post reports.

The two other groups where the Jefferson Council on Aging, and the Charlottesville chapter of the American Association of University Women.

“We’ve worked a long time to build up a reputation, and keep our name untarnished, and the notion that someone would come along and take that name ….. it’s deceit. It’s outright deceit,” said Lisa Maatz, the group’s director of public policy and government relations, told the Post. Maatz also said the AAUW doesn’t have a Charlottesville chapter.”

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