Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Harbinger Capital Investments
* Undetermined
11 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2011 · latest filed Jul 20, 2011
Reported on its behalf
$680K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$680K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$590K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
3 filings
$90K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 3211 110th CongressFederal Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act of 20073 filingsthrough 2008
- H.R. 2454 111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2010
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Shawn H Smeallie Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Special Asst. to Director for Leg. Affairs at OMB9 filingsthrough 2010
- David J Urban Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Arlen Specter8 filingsthrough 2010
- Joshua F Hurvitz Acg AdvocacyCovered position: LD, Sr. LA & LA, Rep. Anthony Weiner8 filingsthrough 2010
- Sheryl Cohen Acg AdvocacyCovered position: Finance Director, Senator Joe Lieberman
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: harbinger-capital-investments.
