The Asia Group bills itself as the premier strategic advisory firm to the world s leading companies seeking to excel across Asia and provides businesses with strategic advice on government policy and business, including advice to market leaders looking for investment opportunities in China s Belt & Road Initiative, a global infrastructure project by the Chinese government that has been deemed a security threat by U.S. officials.
Campbell s work for the firm could pose a conflict with his role as director of Asia policy at the National Security Council, where he is likely to encounter issues that overlap with his former clients interests.
Former D.C. government employee goes to prison for dealing fentanyl Rachel Weiner After serving 19 years in prison for murder, Darrell Pope rebuilt his life and became a program specialist at the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. He married a fellow staffer and joined her church; they built a home in Clinton, Md. But last year, Pope began selling heroin and fentanyl, and on Tuesday, he was sent back to prison for 63 months. “I ran into the wrong people,” Pope told a judge in Alexandria federal court. “It was a terrible mistake I made.” Like Pope, his supplier and co-defendant, Ronald Gorham, spent years in prison for murder but had gotten clean and found a good job before beginning to deal opioids. Pope, a plans review coordinator for the DCRA, and Gorham, who had a job at a nonprofit, met through work.