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Covington and Burling

Law firm that initially represented Flynn
Tracked because Law firm that initially represented Flynn · 6 documented connections
Facts on record1
Connections mapped6
Sources cited13
Evidence: 1S
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 2 elected officials hold documented connections.
0Money Chains
0Traced Hops
Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

PATTERN organization → [donor] → person → [employment] → company 4063× PATTERN person → [legal] → company 57× PATTERN person → [legal] → company → [employment] → person 50× PATTERN person → [employment] → company → [legal] → person 50× PATTERN person → [legal] → company → [donor] → person 27×
Connection Map
Key Connections
← Microsoft company
lobbying representation / classification
Between 2021 and 2023, Covington & Burling LLP classified $3.2 million in Microsoft lobbying expenditures under 'Budget/Appropriations' code rather than 'Defense' or 'Government Issues', reducing traceability to defense procurement outcomes.
← Eugene Simon Vindman person
donor
Covington & Burling employees contributed $24,089 to Vindman's 2023-2024 campaign committee.
← Sidney Powell person
legal
Sidney Powell and Robert Kelner are associated with Covington and Burling in legal proceedings.
Facts (1)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 176d ago · Avg age: 3711d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (1)
Independently re-checked: a second model read the source artifact and confirmed it supports the extracted claim.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Covington and Burling filed filing with the SEC on 2004-03-30. Accession number: N/A.
All Connections (6)
← Robert Kelner person
co_occurrence inferential since 2026
Robert Kelner appears in the same database record as Covington and Burling, suggesting a potential association, possibly as a lawyer or partner at the firm.
← Microsoft company
lobbying representation / classification primary since 2021
Between 2021 and 2023, Covington & Burling LLP classified $3.2 million in Microsoft lobbying expenditures under 'Budget/Appropriations' code rather than 'Defense' or 'Government Issues', reducing traceability to defense procurement outcomes.
← Troy A. Carter person
employment inferential
Though not directly cited above, the broader investigative context notes Carter's background which may include legal work; however based strictly on the provided facts, no direct connection is documented to this entity from the fenced data.
potential intermediary inferential since 2017
Law firm known to represent foreign sovereign wealth funds filed LDA registrations for clients with overlapping US investment interests but did not explicitly list PIF as a disclosed lobbying client.
donor primary since 2024
Covington & Burling employees contributed $24,089 to Vindman's 2023-2024 campaign committee.
← Sidney Powell person
legal primary since 2024
Sidney Powell and Robert Kelner are associated with Covington and Burling in legal proceedings.
Sources (13)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Covington and Burling — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Covington and Burling — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Covington and Burling — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Covington and Burling — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Covington and Burling — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026-04-23 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: Covington and Burling not found in opencorporates claim_flag Processed 📜 Receipt