Notice of Lobbyist Audit Selection Ceremony, July 21, 2011

On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Thomas H. Dooley, Chairman of the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board, will randomly select 10 lobbyists to be audited by the Office of State Ethics (“OSE”).  Reg. Conn. State Agencies § 1-92-56.   This audit selection ceremony will be part of the Board’s regular meeting, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on the 5th Floor, State Elections Enforcement Commission Conference Room, 18-20 Trinity Street, Hartford, Connecticut.  Members of the public are invited to attend.

The lobbyists will be selected from a pool of all registered client lobbyists.  A client lobbyist is the party paying for lobbying services on its behalf.  In other words, the client lobbyist is expending or agreeing to expend the registration threshold amount of $2,000 in a calendar year for lobbying.  (Connecticut General Statutes § 1-91 (u)).

In the course of auditing the selected clients, the OSE will also audit all associated communicator lobbyists – those receiving payment from the clients for conducting lobbying activities.

A list of lobbyists selected to be audited will be available on the OSE’s web site, www.ct.gov/ethics, soon after the drawing. 

Office of State Ethics