4 Contacts on behalf of KMT-PEP Representative Office, USA

Date Lobbyist Firm Country Method Level Contact Office Issues
2007-10-02 None Park Strategies Taiwan Meeting Park Strategies issued the attached press release in anticipation of Mr. Siew's visit. The release was sent by to roughly 100 recipients, mainly New York, U.S. and Asian media outlets, as well as various academics and business organizations. In response to the press release, Bloomberg-TV's Zeb Eckert called on October 4th, seeking an interview with Mr. Siew (which ultimately did not occur).
7-Sep None Park Strategies Taiwan Phone Neal Burnham (White House Staffer) To inquire as to whom at the U.S. Department of Commerce might be willing to meet Mr. Siew during his October 2007 visit to Washington, D.C. Upon learning that Mr. Siew would be meeting Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Bohigian, we sent mr. Bohigian a courtesy advisory e-mail
2007-10-03 Alphonse M. D'Amato? Park Strategies Taiwan Meeting sent out a number of invitations to U.S. Members of Congress, asking them to meet Mr. Siew on that day. He also made follow-up phone calls. Through until October 18th (the date of termination of the registration), Senator D'Amato sent personal thank-you notes to the 42 Members who did meet Mr. Siew. While we did not save copies of every invitation and thank-you letter, we have included a master list of those Members who received invitations, copies of 19 invitations, and 14 thank-you letters - which were to Members and which are illustrative of the content and form of all such correspondence sent from our office
2007-10-03 None Park Strategies Taiwan Meeting (M) Park Strategies, on behalf of its then-foreign principal (Taiwan's Kuomintang-People's First Party Representative Office in the United States) hosted former Taiwan Premier Vincent Siew on Capitol Hill. In addition to a House reception held in his honor in the Rayburn House Office Building that evening, Mr. Siew also had private meetings with eight U.S. Senators, and happened to meet informally another ten senators over the course of the day.
*An asterisk in the "issues" field means no issues were listed for this specific meeting, so the client registration information is displayed instead.

3 Lobbyist Payments from KMT-PEP Representative Office, USA

Date Firm Amount Purpose
2007-09-25 Park Strategies $10,000.00 Consulting fee down payment
2007-10-03 Park Strategies $17,523.75 Consulting fee balance, minus House reception costs
2007-11-02 Park Strategies $1,003.22 Airfare for Alfonse D'Amato & Sean King
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