On Thursday, long-time Trump senior advisor Jason Miller inked a $150,000-per-month lobbying contract to represent the Republic of India. The agreement includes a $450,000 advance payment. Miller’s lobbying firm, SHW Partners, LLC, is registered to the address of a UPS Store located three minutes away from the Trump advisor’s Northern Virginia home. Miller most recently served as a senior advisor to the 2024 Trump presidential campaign.

Miller is tasked with providing India “strategic counsel, tactical planning, and government relations assistance on policy matters before the U.S. Government, the U.S. Congress, state governments, academic institutions, think tanks, and other relevant stakeholders,” according to the agreement’s terms.

Miller has been involved in lobbying since 2017, having worked for Teneo Strategy as a managing director from 2017 to 2019. After leaving Teneo, Miller founded SHW Partners to lobby but represented only two clients on Paycheck Protection Act issues during the COVID pandemic, according to Legislative Disclosure Act filings. A search of the Department of Justice’s FARA registration database reveals that Miller did not register as a foreign agent during his tenure at Teneo Strategy.

Miller is a polarizing and controversial figure compared to other foreign agents. After working for the 2016 Trump campaign, Miller was named White House Communications Director but declined the post after A.J. Delgado, a Trump campaign staffer and transition team member, revealed that Miller had fathered a child with her during a brief affair during the 2016 election.

In a later lawsuit, Delgado alleged that Miller had failed to pay child support. Gizmodo-owned outlet Splinter then reported that sealed court documents asserted that Miller placed ground up abortion-inducing pills into an alleged stripper’s drink to induce an abortion. Miller subsequently sued Gizmodo for defamation but lost the case. In a deposition in the defamation case, Miller admitted to visiting prostitutes, “Asian-themed” massage parlors, and strip clubs. Multiple press accounts later reported that Miller hid payments from the court in the child support case. These included consulting payments from lobbying firm Teneo after he resigned from the company.

Delgado also filed a civil suit against Miller and the Trump campaign, alleging that Miller sexually assaulted her while she was working for the Trump campaign. In January, a New York state judge denied Miller and the Trump campaign’s motion to dismiss the case.

Despite these revelations, Trump rehired Miller during the early stages of his 2024 presidential bid. Miller did not join the incoming administration for Trump’s second term.

India’s need for representation to engage the Trump administration grew after Trump imposed stiff tariffs on goods entering the United States. Initial tariffs against India were set at 26%, but after Trump rolled back tariffs for most of the world, India still faces a 10% tariff on goods entering the U.S. An Indian government report stated that the United States is the largest destination for Indian goods, with nearly 18% of Indian exports going to the U.S.

The hiring of Miller as an agent follows closely on the heels of a recent visit to New Delhi by Vice President J.D. Vance. A Financial Times story on the Vance meeting reported that India was “working at a frenetic pace to make the most of Donald Trump’s tariffs.” The hiring of an otherwise-contriversial Trump insider like Miller may be an indication of how much India India belives that a personal connection to Trump is critical to its tariff strategy.

Moroccan events promoter, registered foreign agent, and man about the world Richard Attias scored a triumph Wednesday when newly sworn-in President Donald Trump appeared as the keynote speaker at the Future Investment Initiative Priority Miami, an event organized by the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

President Donald Trump at the Future Investment Priority Miami, February 19, 2025 (Courtesy White House)

The FII Miami is organized by Attias’ firm, Richard Attias & Associates, whose FARA filings on behalf of the PIF were first reported by The (b)(7)(D) in January.

Attias is the CEO of the Saudi Future Investment Initiative, a sponsor of investment conferences, including the famed “Davos in the Desert” conference held each fall in Saudi Arabia.

Richard Attias speaks at the Future Investment Priority Miami, February 19, 2025 (Courtesy White House)

Attias is a long-time events organizer who has handled the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and events for the Clinton Global Initiative, among others. The institute is an arm of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The head of the FFI is Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, who is also the Governor of the PIF.

The PIF, as it is known, was recently dethroned as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund by the United Arab Emirates’ Mubadala Investment Fund. In November, Al-Rumayyan was spotted with Trump ringside at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden.

Foreign Agent’s Registration Act Documents show that Richard Attias & Associates have raked in over $12 million in payments from the FFI since mid-2022.

Attias opened the conference: “Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and dear friends, welcome.” Al-Rumayyan looked on from the front row, seated next to Elon Musk, the head of DOGE.

Trump gave a speech that criticized Zelenskyy, attacked Biden, and praised Musk. Afterwards, Attias threw fluff questions at the President. Trump took the opportunity to attack his rivals. He also gave his theory of the Presidency: “What I'm doing now is the most exciting job in the world. It's a hard job, not an easy job, it's a nasty job.”

The DOJ moved to drop its prosecution of former GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry for lying to the FBI during the investigation into illegal campaign contributions from Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury to Fortenberry’s 2016 campaign. Politico reports a DOJ official linked the prosecution to efforts to end “weaponization” of government.

New Foreign Registration Act filings for January 24, 2025, are limited to filings by Richard Attias & Associates for Attias’ work as the CEO of the Saudi Future Investment Initiative, sponsor of investment conferences including the famed “Davos in the Desert” conference held each fall in Saudi Arabia.

Attias is a long-time events organizer who has handled the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and events for the Clinton Global Initiative among others. It is unclear why Attias, a Moroccan citizen, is filing FARA reports for FFI, a foreign organization which he directs.

The institute is an arm of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund The head of the FFI is Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, who is also the Governor of the PIF.

The PIF, as it is known, was recently dethroned as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund by the United Arab Emirates’ Mubadala Investment Fund. In November, Al-Rumayyan was spotted with Trump ringside at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden.

The documents show that Richard Attias & Associates have raked in over $12 million in payments from FFI since mid-2022.

The filings have a few interesting details, including a pair of phone calls to Jared Kushner, whose Affinity Partners received a $2 billion investment from the PIF six months after leaving the Trump White House.

The next spring, Kushner appeared at the 2023 FFI Priority Conference in Miami, Florida, where he discussed “ideas for making a way forward through peace and prosperity in this new global order” with fellow presenter Brian Hook, a former State Department official who recently ran the State transition team for Trump.

Up next for the Future Investment Initiative is its 2025 Miami FFI PRIORITY Conference, February 19-22.