Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn't like a critical New York Times story this week on one of the firm's biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea.
So he's hitting back against the reporter, Ian Urbina, using an unusual vehicle: His personal twitter feed.
"How does NY Times manage its reporter's conflicts of interest?" Hartley tweeted indignantly on Tuesday. "Not well. Re: Equatorial Guinea, father was judge in controversial case."
Naturally, Twitter isn't the best way to give all the context here. Urbina's father, U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina, indeed presided over a high-profile case involving Equatorial Guinea. In 2005, Washington, D.C., stalwart Riggs Bank pleaded guilty to failing to report suspicious transactions. The bank accounts involved included some held by leaders of Equatorial Guinea, and others belonging to onetime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
When asked why he took to Twitter instead of sticking to more traditional lobbying tools such as meetings with lawmakers, Hartley said the firm -- which hosts a blog on its Web site -- is "trying to find if it gives us another round of ammunition."
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