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Until recently, the lead lobbyist for the account was [[Amos Hochstein]].<ref> Ken Silverstein, "[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/08/sb-obiangs-banking-again-1155053056 Obiang's Banking Again: State Department and Washington insiders help a dictator get what he wants]", ''Harpers Magazine'', August 9, 2006.</ref> He left Cassidy and Associates in January 2007 to join Senator [[Christopher John Dodd|Christopher Dodd]]'s campaign for the U.S. Presidency.<ref>"[http://www.cassidy.com/press/pressdetail.asp?Id=61 Amos Hochstein to Join Presidential Campaign]", press release, Cassidy and Associates, January 16, 2007.</ref> In an April 2006 interview with the ''Washington Post'', Hochstein was effusive about Obiang's regime:
:"I don't know where The Post got those numbers [about malnutrition in Equatorial Guinea]. I've seen them on the opposition's Web site, but never anywhere else... [Obiang has] convinced me of his deep care for his people. And I've seen the changes. I know that he sent 120 Equato-Guinean nurses to Israel for training. I've seen the kids going to new schools in their blue pants and white shirts."<ref>Michael Grunwald, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101754.html A conversation with Amos Hochstein]", ''Washington Post'', April 23, 2006.</ref>
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