Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Defense
DEF · 9 clients
113 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
AVI · 1 client
47 filings
$731K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
ERNEST C BAYNARD ivCovered position: Comm Dir Reps. Forbes and Honda 1998-2002300 filings18 clients · through 2026
Covered positions · 1 of 1 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Epigenomics Ag
Germany
1 filing
through 2019
Ls Telcom
Germany
1 filing
through 2017
Ls Telcom Ag
Germany
The filings
The 20 most recent of 273 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: meridian-hill-strategies-formerly-known-as-ernest-c-baynard-iv.
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 $3.5M in fees and $0 in expenses.
LAW · 2 clients
35 filings
$150K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 4 clients
34 filings
$230K on those filings
Homeland Security
HOM · 2 clients
22 filings
$450K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 2 clients
21 filings
$540K on those filings
Aerospace
AER · 1 client
11 filings
$95K on those filings
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM · 2 clients
10 filings
$39K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
5 filings
$20K on those filings
Veterans
VET · 1 client
4 filings
$25K on those filings
Accounting
ACC · 3 clients
3 filings
$30K on those filings
Banking
BAN · 1 client
2 filings
$60K 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.
1 filing
through 2017
Msab
Sweden
1 filing
through 2015
Smith Detection
United Kingdom
1 filing
through 2010
Onair Nv (Onair)
Netherlands
1 filing
through 2009
Telenor as (Aeromobile)
Norway
1 filing
through 2009
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.
