Laurance Gay is a long-time lobbyist whose business affairs have often attracted the attention of the authorities. In 1992, while he was working as a lobbyist for Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, he admitted to Congress that he would routinely contact the executive secretary to the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order to assist clients in winning lucrative contracts with the agency. In his testimony, Gay described himself as a friend of former HUD Housing Commissioner Thomas Demery, leading the late Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) to say, "You had a sweetheart deal. The deal was greased. Everybody knows it."[1] Gay was later appointed vice president of government relations at GTECH, which makes computerized networks for licensed lotteries and has been the subject of at least four grand jury investigations into its aggressive lobbying techniques and business practices.[2] Gay then found work as a lobbyist on behalf of the Mashantucket Pequot Indians, owners of Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.[3] His firm, Business Strategies and Insight, has boasted such clients as Xavier Chemical Company and the American Stock Exchange.