The Alexander Strategy Group (ASG), a GOP associated lobbying and political strategy firm with offices in Washington, DC, and Hong Kong, was founded in 1998 by Ed Buckham, Tom Delay's former Chief of Staff and lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies , "with a huge initial contract that DeLay secured from Enron. (The group also paid DeLay's wife a salary for several years.)" Another client included Blackwater USA.
ASG has "worked extensively with the Executive and Legislative branches of government, been involved in numerous Presidential and Congressional campaigns, forged alliances with numerous conservative advocacy groups and worked at the highest levels of the international arena,"
ASG represents Group W Advisors, Inc., a defense contractor owned by Brent Wilkes, who has recently been indicted in the Cunningham scandal. . Previous to hiring ASG, Wilkes retained Patrick McSwain, Duke Cunningham's former chief of staff, as a lobbyist. McSwain went on to found another "high-powered GOP lobbying firm," Northpoint Strategies, whose clients included the Carlyle Group and Titan Corporation ("of Abu Ghraib fame").
On January 9, 2006, ASG announced it would be closing shop due to being "fatally damaged by publicity about the ongoing federal investigation into the affairs of" and "its ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay."
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