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AVANT BISHOP WASHINGTON & BLACK LLC

Lobbying for SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION · Political activity for member merchant mariners

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Aug 5, 2025

Income

$20,000.00

What the client paid this registrant for the period.

Client based in

Maryland

Official filing document

Conviction disclosures 2

A registrant must disclose criminal convictions of the lobbyists it lists, under the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. This is the filer's own wording.

LANIER AVANT 2018

One count in violation of 18 USC 1001
LANIER AVANT 2016

One count in violation of 26 USC 7203

Lobbyists on this filing 1

LANIER AVANT

Previously held: Chief of Staff to Rep. Bennie G. Thompson and Staff Director for the Committee on Homeland Security

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 1

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 3

Defense

The Jones Act and Maritime Security Program

Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries

Maritime Security Program

Homeland Security

Maritime Security Program

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.