Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
The Esop Association
District of Columbia
69 filings · 1 client · 7 lobbyists registered · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jul 20, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$4.7M
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
7 lobbyists registered
Reported 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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
69 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
69 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Retirement
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- J Michael KeelingCovered position: President, The ESOP Association42 filings1 client · through 2019
- Gregory Facchiano20 filings1 client · through 2026
- James Bonham14 filings1 client · through 2022
- Patrick Lonergan RussoCovered position: Staff Assistant10 filings1 client · through 2026
- Nicole Reppert10 filings1 client · through 2023
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: the-esop-association.