Sri Lankan Government hires lobbying firm to counteract Tamil Genocide " MODEL" indictment.

Sri Lankan Government hires lobbying firm to counteract Tamil Genocide " MODEL" indictment.
The Sri Lankan Government has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs to counteract the indictment filed by Bruce Fein at the Department of Justice and to lobby Congress on their behalf. The reported fees paid to Patton Boggs is a contract for $35,000 per month according to official records filed in the Department of Justice's Foreign Agent Registration office in Washington, DC

This appointment in a bizzare way has a Tamils Against Genocide conenction. Their current counsel Bruce Fein's neighbor for over a decade in Washington is the immigration attorney Basanayake, whose son has joined the Patton Bogg law firm last year. Basanayake Senior secretly arranged a meeting with Sri Lanka's foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and Bruce Fein, in New York last year in May. However the foreign minister when questioned in the Sri Lankan Parliament denied the actual meeting. Bruce Fein although confirmed of the arrangment when he was Tamils For Justice attorney,
later denied the meeting arranged by Basanayake.
Patton Boggs were seen at the Senate Hearings on Sri Lanka, and so was Basanayake and Bruce Fein.
Politics make strange bed fellows?

Details of Vinoda Basanayake.

Vinoda B. Basnayake
Associate

Public Policy and Lobbying
International Practice
Financial Services and Products


2550 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
T: 202-457-6159 F: 202-457-6315

Vinoda Basnayake assists international and domestic clients with a range of legislative and policy matters. Mr. Basnayake focuses his work in the Public Policy and International practice areas, helping clients navigate Washington's legal and policy arenas.

Mr. Basnayake brings to Patton Boggs a background at the intersection of international business and public policy. Having worked for several years with the World Bank's Development Economics Group, served as the Interim Director of the International Trade Center's International Gateway, and worked for Congressman Ronald Dellums, Mr. Basnayake provides strategic counsel to clients facing international policy and business concerns.

Mr. Basnayake's knowledge of international affairs is further bolstered by his experiences working at a global investment bank in Sri Lanka, researching transitional governments in El Salvador as a Penn Law Global Justice Fellow, studying corporate governance in Japan at Waseda Law School, and having studied abroad at Oxford in England.

Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2008
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Certificate in Business and Public Policy, 2008
Georgetown University, B.S.B.A., cum laude, 2003

Bar Admissions
New Jersey
District of Columbia (pending)