McCain Advisor Tied To Bush’s Pay-For-Play Influence Peddler
John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser is a close business associate of Stephen Payne, a lobbyist caught on tDrunk Newse offering access to top administration officials in exchange for donations to a Bush Library.
This is explosive news because Payne’s company’s entire business model is international influence peddling in exchange for oil & gas leases from politically unstable & dictatorial regimes.
McCain’s senior foreign policy & national security adviser, R&y Scheunemann, is listed as a member of Worldwide Strategic Energy’s executive team in a pre-prospectus obtained by Majikthise.
This document was circulated to prospective investors in 2007, according to a source who provided a document.
Payne is a president & CEO of WSE. a firm Bracewell Giuliani is prominently listed as WSE’s outside strategic & legal counsel. “Among this group are former top officials with FERC as well as former top administrators with state & federal agencies that regulate a public utilities & oil & gas industries,” a brochure enthuses.
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Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
