West Realm Shires Services Inc. D/B/A Ftx… — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
West Realm Shires Services Inc. D/B/A Ftx US
Illinois
12 filings from 4 registrants · 2021–2022 · latest filed Nov 16, 2022
Reported on its behalf
$980K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$540K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$440K
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.
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: west-realm-shires-services-inc-d-b-a-ftx-us.
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.
BAN
2 filings
$540K 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.
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.
Covered position:
4 filingsthrough 2022
Brian GreerEmpire Consulting GroupCovered position: Prof. Staff-House Armed Services Comm.; Military Leg Asst., Sen. Charles Schumer; Spec Asst. Off. of Sec. of Defense; Military Leg Asst., Rep. John Boccieri; Military Leg Asst. Rep. Parker Griffith; Leg Asst., Staff Asst. & Leg Corr.,Rep. David Scott4 filingsthrough 2022
E. Brandon GarrettEmpire Consulting GroupCovered position: Chief of Staff-Rep. Robin Kelly; Policy Dir.-Cong. Black Caucus/Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II; Leg. Dir.-Rep. Marcia Fudge; and Leg. Asst.-Rep. Wm. Jefferson.4 filingsthrough 2022
Rashawn MitchellRich Feuer AndersonCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Joe Cunningham; Special Assistant and Advisor to the Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget.4 filingsthrough 2022
Charlie ThorntonT Cap Solutions, LLCCovered position: Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer, Counselor to the Chairman, Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs : CFTC ; Senior Professional Staff and Counsel: U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee3 filingsthrough 2022
Eliora KatzWest Realm Shires Services, Inc. D/B/A Ftx USCovered position: Special Assistant, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Professional staff member, Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.3 filingsthrough 2022
Covered positions · 10 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
