Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 13 clients
87 filings
$6.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 9 clients
81 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Homeland Security
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Clarine Nardi RiddleCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Senator Joseph Lieberman, (2003-2013)243 filings27 clients · through 2026
John ThomasCovered position: Former Chief of Staff, Cong. Scott W. Taylor, (2017-2018); Chief of Staff, Cong. Scott Rigell, (2016-2016); Legislative Director, Cong. Scott Rigell, (2011-2016); MLA, Cong. Scott Rigell (2011-2011); MLA, Cong. Walter Jones (2007-2011)188 filings22 clients · through 2024
Justin RubinCovered position: Former Special Assistant to the ASA (M&RA) and Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, Department of the Army (2010-2015)170 filings19 clients · through 2024
Rachel Gorsky Bombach Legislative Director, Senator Dianne Feinstein, (2021-2023); Foreign Policy Adviser, Senator Dianne Feinstein, (2019-2021); Intern, Congressman David McIntosh (1998); Intern, Senator Richard Lugar (1997)
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Israel
4 filings
through 2023
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.
Israel
4 filings
through 2022
The filings
The 20 most recent of 346 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: kasowitz-llp-fka-kasowitz-benson-torres-llp.
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.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $14.4M in fees and $0 in expenses.
HOM · 15 clients
73 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Education
EDU · 2 clients
35 filings
$1.6M on those filings
Small Business
SMB · 4 clients
32 filings
$962K on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 4 clients
29 filings
$776K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 4 clients
26 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 5 clients
26 filings
$1.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 4 clients
22 filings
$1.5M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 2 clients
22 filings
$928K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 4 clients
19 filings
$1.7M on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 1 client
17 filings
$1.5M 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 money 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.
Covered position:
72 filings11 clients · through 2025
Laura Gormally32 filings6 clients · through 2024
Robert Vezzetti23 filings5 clients · through 2026
Mark RobertsonCovered position: Associate General Counsel, DHS23 filings5 clients · through 2022
David Miller7 filings2 clients · through 2026
Nicholas Rendino4 filings1 client · through 2019
Joseph I LiebermanCovered position: Former U.S. Senator4 filings1 client · through 2019
Covered positions · 6 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Controp Precision Technologies Ltd.
Israel
3 filings
through 2021
Shenzhen Zhongxingxin Telecommunications Equipment Company Limited
China
3 filings
through 2019
Windward Ltd.
Israel
2 filings
through 2021
Zte Corporation
China
2 filings
through 2018
Asterra Corporate
Israel
1 filing
through 2024
Smart Shooter Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2024
Convexum Ltd
Israel
1 filing
through 2023
Sentrycs Inc.
Israel
1 filing
through 2023
Claroty Ltd
Israel
1 filing
through 2019
Rt Lta Systems Ltd.
Israel
1 filing
through 2019
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
