Rob Portman Was Registered Foreign Agent For Haitian Dictator

According to Senator Rob Portman’s 1985 foreign agent registration form, while working as a lobbyist at the firm Patton, Boggs, and Blow, Portman was a registered foreign agent on the behalf of the Republic of Haiti. In 1985 Haiti was ruled by the notorious Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who was overthrown by a uprising in 1986. Update In June, Portman’s staff provided ABC News a 2005 signed affidavit from the Democratic managing partner of Patton Boggs, that says Portman did not represent foreign entities during his time at the lobbying firm in the 1980s. posted on August 7, 2012 at 10:52am EDT