The Livingston Group & the Monitor Group Paid $5.4 Million by Libyan Government to Clean Up Image of Gaddafi Regime

It is a disgrace that two U.S. lobbyists -- the Livingston Group and the Monitor Group were paid $5.4 million by the Libyan government to help clean up the Gaddafi regime's image. It is a sad commentary that lobbyists have so little regard for the message they are sending when they consort with scum like Muamar Gaddafi and his son Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi. I must also add that one of the lobbyists is a Republican -- former Republican House Speaker Rep. Robert Livingston. This is another reason why it is clear the GOP doesn't give a hoot about Main Street. Just look at their love affair with the big banks and the mortgage industry meltdown.

Gaddafi’s government — officially named the “Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” — first hired the Livingston Group, founded by former House Speaker Rep. Robert Livingston. For $2.4 million a year, Livingston, a Republican, represented both Gaddafi and his second son Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi. Tripoli then secured the services of the Monitor Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, image consulting firm founded by a group from the Harvard Business School. They tried to groom Saif as a “thought leader” in Europe and in the United States, and reportedly received $3 million for the attempted makeover.

With the Monitor Group in the lead, Saif was groomed as a Westernized, sophisticated new generation of young Arab leader. Monitor, which has 30 offices around the world, especially sold Saif to the British public as a new Muslim face for “progressive” Libya. The British political elite bought the image, especially at the London School of Economics — Saif gave the school a gift of $2.5 million, and he was rewarded with a Ph.D.

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