A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick

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By Eric Lipton and Kate Kelly

Washington reports

Halfway through the first Trump administration, Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line, had a challenge in Cuba that sought the president to fix.

Then, Carnival, a company based in Miami, has hired a new lobbyist: Pam Bondi, who has evolved a close event with Donald J. Trump his two terms as a attorney general of Florida, the official of the most sensitive law of the State .

Carnival feared it could be prosecuted for damages of up to $600 million for parking its cruise ships at Havana docks that had been seized earlier through Cuban communists. The company sought after Trump repels the proceedings.

With that of Mrs. Bondi, the president of Carnival, Micky Arison, had an assembly with Trump in the oval workplace to boost his case.

In the end, the president did not attend the company. But the participation of Mrs. Bondi has shown that she can grease relations with the Trump administration for her new clients.

It is also a continuation of its business open technique, which began when it occupied the workplace in Florida.

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