U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20416

OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL

April 23, 2020
Austin R. Evers
Executive Director
American Oversight
1030 15th Street, NW, Suite B255
Washington, DC 20005
FOIA@americanoversight.org
Dear Mr. Evers,
This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request No. SBA-2020000572 in which you requested the following:
All communications (including emails, email attachments, text messages, calendar
invitations, calendar entries, meeting notices, meeting agendas, or talking points)
between (a) the listed government officials and (b) the listed external entities.
Government Officials
1. Jovita Carranza, Administrator
2. William Manger, Chief of Staff
3. Bill Briggs, Deputy Associate Administrator
4. John Miller, Deputy Associate Administrator
5. James Rivera, Associate Administrator
6. Rafaela Monchek, Associate Administrator
7. Michael Vallante, Associate Administrator
8. Victor Parker, Deputy Associate Administrator
9. Anyone serving as White House Liaison or agency point of contact for the
coronavirus task force
External Entities
1. Daniel Loeb, CEO, Third Point
2. Stephen Schwarzman, CEO, Blackstone
3. Robert Smith, CEO, Vista Equity
4. Jeffrey Sprecher, Chairman and CEO, ICE and NYSE
5. Paul Tudor Jones, CIO, JUST Capital
6. Lloyd Blankfein, Senior Chairman, Goldman Sachs
7. Tom Barrack, Chairman, Colony Capital
8. Mark Rowan, Co-Founder, Apollo Global Management
9. Joshua Harris, Co-Founder, Apollo Global Management
10. Nick Ayers, Partner, Ayers Neugebauer and Company
11. Gary Cohn, Former White House Economic Adviser
12. Arthur Laffer, Economist
13. Stephen Moore, Economist

VERSIGHT

 From February 1, 2020, through the date of the search.
SBA has performed a search of its records and no documents exist that are responsive to your
request.
If you are dissatisfied with the Agency’s decision, you may file an administration appeal within
90 days of the date of this letter to:
Office of Hearings and Appeals
Attention: Delorice Ford, FOIA Office
409 3rd Avenue, SW – 8th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20416
If you are unable to resolve your FOIA dispute through our FOIA Public Liaison in the Office of
Hearings and Appeals, the Office of Government Information Services (“OGIS”), the Federal
FOIA Ombudsman’s Office, offers mediation services to help resolve disputes between FOIA
requesters and Federal agencies. The contact information for OGIS is:
Office of Government Information Services
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road-OGIS
College Park, MD 20740-6001
ogis@nara.gov
ogis.archives.gov
202-741-5770
877-684-6448
Sincerely,
/s/ Eric S. Benderson
Eric S. Benderson
Chief FOIA Officer
Office of General Counsel
U.S. Small Business Administration

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