By Judy Sarasohn
If any client is able to shell out big bucks to lobby the American public and policymakers, it would be a good guess that client would be Saudi Arabia.
The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia is paying Qorvis Communications…for advertising expenses, lobbying, public affairs and research.
“It’s been a fascinating client and at a fascinating time,” said Michael Petruzzello, one of Qorvis’s founders and the former chief executive of Shandwick North America.
In on the deal are Patton Boggs, the lobby and law firm that owns a chunk of Qorvis, and the Gallagher Group. … Also on board from Qorvis is Judy Smith, who provided crisis management communications for Monica S. Lewinsky and others and was senior vice president of corporate communications at NBC and deputy press secretary to former president George Bush.
