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Olson had previously received campaign donations from Frontera chairman and CEO Steve Nicandros, who gave a total of $5,200 to the Texas congressman in 2017–2018. Olson did not respond to request for comment. There is no suggestion of any link to the donation.
Records from the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that Nicandros (whose father was once chairman of Conoco and a friend of George Bush Senior) spent $73,450 on political donations to 16 US congressmen and senators in 2017–2020. All 16 co-sponsored legislation that was lobbied for Frontera, made public statements to the Georgian and US authorities in the company’s defence or appear to have made private inquiries.
The Texas-based company also spent a further $890,000 on lobbying fees relating to its arbitration battle with Georgia in 2017–2021. Lobbying disclosure filings state that $850,000 went to Washington government relations firm Cornerstone Government Affairs
But the resolution, introduced by Texas Congressman Ted Poe, also called on the Georgian government to ‘enforce the rule of law with regard to adhering to contractual obligations’ and ‘demonstrate its commitment to welcome and respect freely negotiated conditions of business investment.’
Poe received $3,700 in donations from Frontera chairman Nicandros in 2017, according to the FEC. There is no suggestion of any link between the donation and the resolution.
On 6 December 2017, some three weeks after Frontera refused to hand over the exploration territory according to its contract triggering arbitration proceedings with the Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation, Republican Congressman Steve Russell proposed a “Georgian Fair Business Practices Sanctions Act” — a move lobbied on behalf of Frontera, according to the company’s 2018 management presentation.
This bill proposed that the US President regularly submit reports to Congress on ‘whether or not the government of Georgia is undermining commitments or contractual agreements made with US business persons operating in Georgia’, and that Georgian state officials could be sanctioned if reports found to the contrary.
According to the FEC, Russell received a $5,000 campaign donation from Nicandros in 2018. There is no suggestion of a link between the donation and the draft legislation.
‘We certainly had some discussions together’, said Steve Russell regarding contact with Cornerstone over the Georgian Fair Business Practices Sanctions Act. ‘In terms of whether or not me and my integrity would be for sale for something so cheap, that’s not even open for discussion’, said Russell when asked about the donation.
‘People will try to protect their interests. That’s kind of politics and foreign policy 101’, he continued.
In an email a few weeks later, Frontera CEO Steve Nicandros noted that, together with their lobbying firm, Cornerstone Government Affairs, he had invited Republican Senator Lindsay Graham for lunch at the company’s office in Houston, Texas, on 2 May 2018. Graham, Nicandros wrote, ‘has been and will be instrumental in providing leadership influence from the US Senate to push back on Georgia’s current initiative against us’.
Later that month, Steve Nicandros made a total of $10,000 in donations to Graham’s campaign, according to the FEC. Graham’s office did not respond to a request for comment. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing.
In February 2019, Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin reintroduced the ‘Georgian Fair Business Practices Sanctions Act’ to Congress with 11 co-sponsors, eight of whom received donations from Nicandros between 2017 and 2019.
For example, one of the co-sponsors for this bill, its preceding version and the 2017 resolution, Texas Republican Congressman Brian Babin, received a total of $3,000 in donations from Nicandros during 2018-2019. In September 2019, Nicandros made a $3,000 donation to Mullin’s election campaign.
Neither Babin, nor Mullin responded to requests for comment. There is no suggestion of any link between these donations and the draft legislation.
Several weeks after the final arbitration decision was announced in April 2020, US Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, as well as Congressmen Markwayne Mullin and Jodey C Arrington, wrote to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, claiming that Frontera ‘face[d] possible expropriation from the Georgian Government’.
Arrington received $3,000 in donations from Nicandros in February 2020; Cornyn had previously received $2,850 in 2018-2019. Neither Arrington, nor Cornyn responded to requests for comment. There is no suggestion of any link between these donations and the letter.
In July, Mullin published an op-ed in The Hill, where he once again accused the Georgian government of expropriating Frontera’s business, provoking Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani to call the US congressman a Frontera lobbyist.
While Frontera and its chair Steve Nicandros began spending thousands of dollars on lobbying and political donations in 2017, the company’s Georgian employees have been left without wages and jobs.
Frontera’s now-former employees have sued the company over unpaid salaries. Eighty-five workers claim that the company failed to regularly pay them monthly salaries since December 2016 and that by November 2019, the company owed them 11-months of back pay in addition to two months for termination-without-notice as per Georgian labour law.
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ერთ ადგილს რო იპუტავდნენ
ამერიკელი კონკრესმენები იესო ქრისტე რო ჰგონიათ
Zaza Tsiklauri, a former borehole tester and operator at Frontera, died of brain cancer while still waiting for his back pay, which he needed to pay for urgent treatment.
Another Frontera worker, Avtandil Onanashvili, 53, took his own life last summer after the loss of his job led to the break up of his marriage and a descent into poverty, his colleagues said.
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ამ ჰუმანოიდების მიერ მიზანმიმართულად იქნა გავრცელებული ტყუილი და სახელწიფო დადანაშაულებული იქნა აფერისტი კომპანიის შევიწროვებაში.
აქ მახსოვს რა აღარ დაწერეს და იკადრეს
სად არიან ის იუზერები ვინც მამაძაღლ ფრონტერას და ამ 3500 $-ან პუტანკა კონგრესმენებს იცავდა და საკუთარ, უხელფასოდ დატოვებულ მოქალაქეებს რუსეთის მონებს ეძახდა?
თქვენა ხართ პატრიოტები?
საკუთარ მოსახლეობას რომ არ უჯერებ და ვიღაცა სულგაყიდულ, ფულის გულისთვის ყველაფრის მკადრებელ კონგრესმენს და ამავდროულად აფერისტ კომპანიას იცავ და უჯერებ?
ვინც შენი ქვეყნის იმიჯს აზიანებს იმათ ტაშს უკრავ
:facepalm
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This post has been edited by WillyWonka on 25 May 2021, 14:32
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