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Lobbying records reveal payments to those firms of over US$ 1.5 million dollars from 2015 through the first quarter of 2018 for work related to \u201cinternational finance issues\u201d and activities directed at USTR, Senate, House of Representatives, Department of State and Department of Agriculture, among others.60 The registration forms for those firms reference Gramercy, and in some instances, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2019s counsel. \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 Associates explained to the Washington Post that its \u201cprincipal task\u201d was \u201cto make sure the new [Peru] administration \u2026 was aware of this issue and was baking it into their going forward plans.\u201d61 A \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 representative awkwardly gave a Peruvian Minister a business card at a public event seeking an \u201coff the record conversation.\u201d62 More recently, \u201c[t]he bondholders have hired Frontline Strategies\u201d in an effort \u201cto force Peru to pay up,\u201d63 and the strategist for a related political action committee placed an op-ed in The Hill calling on the U.S. to take action against Peru based on inaccurate statements about the bonds.64 54 PABJ, 2015 Annual Franchise Tax Report, Delaware, 5 February 2016 (Doc. R-104). 55 See e.g. ABDA, Datos Peru (Doc. R-220); see also Letter from Gramercy to Peru, 21 April 2014 (Doc. R-76); Interview with \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, representative of the association of bondholders of the agrarian debt, APJ Website, 13 April 2015 (Doc. R-80). (\u201c\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587, representative of the Association of Bondholders of the Agrarian Debt\u201d); People expropriated by agrarian reform claim they will only be paid for 0.5% of the value of their land, Gesti\u00f3n, 6 April 2015 (Doc. R-79); Siege of Bonds, Caretas, 25 October 2012 (Doc. 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