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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 the president sought to correct.
Then, Carnival, a corporate founded in Miami, hired a new lobbyist: Pam Bondi, who has evolved a close date with Donald J. Trump his two terms as a Florida prosecutor, the most productive manager of the application of state legislation .
Carnival feared that it could be prosecuted for damage for damage of up to $ six hundred million to park their cruises on the docks of Havana that had been previously seized through the Cuban communists. The company sought after Trump repels the procedures.
With Ms. Bondi’s help, Carnival’s chairman, Micky Arison, got a meeting with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office to push its case.
In the end the president did not side with the company. But Ms. Bondi’s involvement demonstrated that she could help grease relations with the Trump administration for her new clients.
It’s also a continuation of his open-door business technique, which he began when he took up the workplace in Florida.
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