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Posted by Jenna Ebersole on Aug. 10, 2015
A former representative from Texas out of the spotlight for nearly a decade is back as a registered lobbyist for victims of the 1998 embassy bombings.
Rep. Ron Coleman (D-Texas) left Congress a year before the deadly series of bombs that killed 224 and wounded more than 5,000 people in Kenya and Tanzania. He has registered to lobby Congress to secure compensation for U.S. government employees who were killed or injured in the blasts.
Now in his 70s, Coleman started his first term in Congress in 1983 and served on the House Appropriations Committee, Armed Services Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence. Although he was never charged with wrongdoing, Coleman's seven terms in Congress were marred by the House bank scandal, in which he made 673 overdrafts on his account.
After departing Congress, he filed lobbying papers with several firms including ShawnCoulson International Lawyers in the early 2000s.
Coleman's last lobbying clients included Skelton Truck Lines and Domes International in 2006 with ShawnCoulson. He also filed a foreign agents registration in 1998 on behalf of Chechnya to promote information on the region and gain recognition of the Chechen Republic as a sovereign state.
 
 
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