Chabot Negative: “He Should Know”
Claim
Audio: Politician Aftab Pureval will say anything to get elected
Caption: Politician Aftab Pureval will say anything to get elected
Audio: [Aftab]: The special interests and lobbyists rig the game to
benefit themselves
Caption: “The special interests and lobbyists rig the game to benefit
themselves”
Audio: Pureval should know he worked at a DC lobbying firm.
Caption: Pureval: Worked at a DC lobbying firm White & Case Open
Secrets, accessed 8/18/18
Audio: But worse than Pureval’s lies, is his hypocrisy. Pureval’s
lobbying firm made millions helping Libya reduce payments owed
to families of Americans killed by Libyan terrorism.
Caption: Worse than Pureval’s lies, is his hypocrisy. Pureval’s firm
made millions helping Libya avoid paying American victims.
Americans killed by Libyan Terrorism. (supplemental statements,
White & Case, FARA, Filed 5/7/09 and 10/31/08) H
Audio: Selling out Americans? Aftab Pureval can’t be trusted.
Audio: Congressional leadership fund is responsible for the content
of this advertising.
Caption: Selling out Americans? Aftab Pureval can’t be trusted.
Caption: Congressional leadership fund is responsible for the
content of this advertising. Paid for by Congressional leadership
fund. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
www.congressionalleadershipfund.org
Fact Check
Pureval has taken no money from corporate PACs, while Chabot has
taken more than $5 million from corporate PACs:
“PACS,” Ohio District 01 2018 Race, OpenSecrets.org, accessed
8/24/18
“Political Action Committees,” Rep. Steve Chabot, OpenSecrets.org,
accessed 8/24/18
Corporate PAC Money
2018 Cycle Congressional Career
Aftab Pureval $0 $0
Steve Chabot $411,393 $5,233,378
Pureval worked at White & Case right after graduating from law
school and had no contact with the Libya contract. In fact, the
Resolution was approved by Chabot and signed by the President
8/4/2008, a month before Aftab started at White & Case.
Aftab Pureval, White & Case Sep 2008 – Oct 2012
S.3370 - Libyan Claims Resolution Act, 7/31/2008
8/4/2008 Signed by President. Became Public Law No:
110-301.
Chabot approved the resolution between Libya and the American
victims of terrorism that White & Case helped negotiate:
S.3370 - Libyan Claims Resolution Act, 7/31/2008
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without
objection at 7:46pm.
The Act passed with no objections. Chabot was clearly present. As he
voted on the Employee Verification act on the same day, two
minutes before:
Employee verification amendment act of 2008
7/31/2008 Roll Call #557, Chabot: Y at 7:44pm
The Congressional Leadership Fund is a special interest largely
funded by billionaires:
Can A Super PAC and its new billionaire donors help set the
Republican Party’s future?, Deniz Cam, Forbes, 7/20/17
Fink and Bliss raised $11.7 million in less than six
months (the PAC’s record for an off year) from 27
corporations and 15 individuals including four
billionaires: hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, oil tycoon
Paul Foster, Home Depot cofounder Bernie Marcus and
Charles B. Johnson of mutual fund giant Franklin
Resources. Some of these billionaires had not previously
donated to the six-year-old CLF.