PMA to Cease Operations

The PMA Group plans to cease its lobbying activities on March 31, according to three sources with knowledge of the firm.
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The embattled lobby shop, at the center of a federal probe that is believed to involve the relationship between earmarks and campaign contributions, had been among Washington, D.C.’s largest, with lobbying revenues of some $14 million in 2008.

The 21-year-old firm, founded and solely owned by former House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense staffer Paul Magliocchetti, was raided by federal agents in November, and has been hemorrhaging lobbyists since then.

Read more: (T.R. Goldman, “PMA to Cease Operations on 3/31,” Roll Call, 2/19/09)