section_path: Return to private life/Lobbying work
section_name: Lobbying work
paragraph_text: Lobbying work
  
  In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners, a firm with close ties to Trump, and she began working as a registered foreign agent as a lobbyist for the Embassy of the State of Qatar. She registered as a foreign agent for the Embassy of the State of Qatar and as a partner in the lobbyist firm of Ballard Partners under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump's first impeachment proceedings.
  
  As a partner at Ballard Partners, she also became a lobbyist for KGL KSCC, a company incorporated in Kuwait. The KGL KSCC lobbying activity was, according to the filed federal lobbying report, for "issues related to potential Global Magnitsky Act violations and imprisonment". The Global Magnitsky Act is a law which allows the U.S. government to sanction government officials implicated in human rights abuses or extreme corruption anywhere in the world. Bondi was lobbying for the Kuwait company to help with a case of claimed extortion. She had reported on her federal lobbying forms that she had a member of the 2017 Presidential Transition Team of the first Trump administration. Bondi worked as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners until her confirmation as U.S. Attorney General. During her time at Ballard Partners, Bondi lobbied for GEO Group, Amazon, Uber, General Motors, the Florida Sheriffs Association and others.
  
  In 2019, after her final term as Florida attorney general, Bondi was hired by Ballard Partners, a firm with close ties to Trump, and she began working as a registered foreign agent as a lobbyist for the Embassy of the State of Qatar. She registered as a foreign agent for the Embassy of the State of Qatar and as a partner in the lobbyist firm of Ballard Partners under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. She left the Qatari project in 2019 to work in a temporary position for the White House Counsel for President Trump's first impeachment proceedings.
  
  As a partner at Ballard Partners, she also became a lobbyist for KGL KSCC, a company incorporated in Kuwait. The KGL KSCC lobbying activity was, according to the filed federal lobbying report, for "issues related to potential Global Magnitsky Act violations and imprisonment". The Global Magnitsky Act is a law which allows the U.S. government to sanction government officials implicated in human rights abuses or extreme corruption anywhere in the world. Bondi was lobbying for the Kuwait company to help with a case of claimed extortion. She had reported on her federal lobbying forms that she had a member of the 2017 Presidential Transition Team of the first Trump administration. Bondi worked as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners until her confirmation as U.S. Attorney General. During her time at Ballard Partners, Bondi lobbied for GEO Group, Amazon, Uber, General Motors, the Florida Sheriffs Association and others.