Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Law Offices of Michael Jason Lee, Aplc (on Behalf of Tether Operations Limited)
California
13 filings from 1 registrant · 2022–2025 · latest filed Apr 21, 2025
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
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.
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Bryan Zumwalt Fti Government AffairsCovered position: Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 15 Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works 12-14; Counsel, Sen. David Vitter 09-12; Counsel, Rep. Bilbray 06-07; Clerk, Comm on Natural Resources 05-06.16 filingsthrough 2024
- Russ Kelley Fti Government AffairsCovered position: Sr Advisor, Dem. Caucus 17-19; Counsel, Comm on Trans & Infra. 15-17; Leg Dir & Counsel, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici 12-15; Comm Advisor, Office of the Dem. Leader 03-06; Dir of Radio, Democrat Comms Committee 01-03; Press Asst, Dem. Comms Committee 00-0116 filingsthrough 2024
- John Steitz Fti Government AffairsCovered position: : Dep. Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Senior LA, Sen. John Kennedy 17-21; Senior PSM and PSM, Sen. Small Business Committee 15-17; LA and LC, Sen. David Vitter 11-15
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: law-offices-of-michael-jason-lee-aplc-on-behalf-of-tether-operations-limited.