Last fall, the blue-chip law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips signed a $400,000
contract to lobby on behalf of the government of Jamaica, spending the next
several months talking with the White House and other administration officials
about why the United States should not extradite an accused Kingston drug
kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
According to Justice Department records filed under the Foreign Agents Registration
Act (FARA), Manatt signed the contract to represent the government of Jamaica on
Oct. 1, about a month after Coke's indictment was...