Elio Motors Inc. (ELIO)

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FORMER AVENUE STAFFERS’ FIRM SIGNS FIRST CLIENT: Two of the lobbyists Corey Lewandowski and Barry Bennett recruited to join Avenue Strategies after the election, Jason Osborne and Mike Rubino, have struck out on their own and signed their first client, Elio Motors. As The Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay notes, their new firm, Turnberry Solutions, share a name with Trump Turnberry, Trump’s Scottish golf resort. Elio had hired Heather Podesta + Partners (rebranded now as Invariant) last year before the election. “Podesta was brought on to ‘monitor issues associated with’ the [Department of Energy’s advanced technology manufacturing] program,” The Daily Beast reports. “Two months later, a Clinton-aligned lobbying firm was less valuable to the company. A day after Trump was inaugurated, Elio terminated its Podesta contract.”