September 14, 2007 (LPAC)--The lobbying company, Ogilvy Government Relations, got $3.74 million in the first six months of 2007 from the huge private equity firm, Blackstone Group, to push the war in Congress against regulating and taxing the hedge/equity funds.

This is the largest six-month payment to any lobbyist ever reported.

The lobbying firm is a continuation of the Washington DC company of Cheney-DeLay operative Wayne Berman. After it was bought in 2004 by the British-origin Ogilvy Mather public relations giant, it changed its name from The Federalist Group to Ogilvy Government Relations.

Ogilvy was founded by senior British Intelligence figure David Ogilvy (1911-1999), known as "the father of advertising", who ran the public relations for the U.S. nuclear energy companies' trade organization and conducted a bitter political warfare against Lyndon LaRouche and the pro-nuclear Fusion Energy Foundation.

Lead partner Wayne Berman is vice chairman of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, the London-based giant of private banking and risk management. Berman has been a lobbyist for Lazard Freres and George H.W. Bush's Carlyle Group, and was Assistant Commerce Secretary under the Bush, Sr. Administration. Berman was a star member of former House of Representatives dictator Tom DeLay's "Kitchen Cabinet," and under the Ogilvy name Berman's company has many of the same players who worked with him to do the dirty work for Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff.

On behalf of Dick Cheney's convicted former chief of staff, Wayne Berman is one of the leaders of the Lewis Libby Legal Defense Trust.

Berman is the husband of Lea Berman, who is the current social director of the White House for George W. and Laura Bush. She worked for Dick and Lynne Cheney as their social secretary for two years, then became Mrs. Lynne Cheney's chief of staff.

Laura Bush selected her as White House social secretary "based on a 'great' recommendation from Lynne Cheney."

Berman got hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for arranging for Connecticut state pension funds to be invested in the Carlyle Group, and in Maurice Greenberg's AIG. In 1998, Berman hired into his lobbying firm the former Connecticut State Treasurer, Paul Silvester, but Silvester was convicted in 1999 and imprisoned for taking kickbacks for his pension-fund deals.

A senior finance-oligarch, Blackstone Group founder/chairman Peter Peterson was chosen by George Shultz to head the team writing the justification for President Richard Nixon to take down the Bretton Woods financial system; and while Peterson was in government service, his blind trust was administered by Fascist Felix Rohatyn.

Peterson is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, was Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2000-2004, was Chairman/CEO of Lehman Brothers (1973-1977) and Chairman/CEO of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. (1977-1984).

Nixon made Peterson Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs in 1971, and Secretary of Commerce in 1972.