The former legislative director for Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) has made the schlep from the Hill to K Street to take a position with AIPAC.
Michael Fleischman left Meng's office this month after serving as her legislative director since the beginning of 2014. His new position with the pro-Israel advocacy giant is assistant director for policy and government affairs.
He first joined Meng as the policy director for her 2012 congressional campaign and stayed on with the congresswoman when she took office in 2013 as a senior legislative assistant. That same year, Meng took her first, and thus far, only privately funded trip. She traveled to Israel at the expense of the American Israel Education Foundation, the charity arm of AIPAC. Fleischman was also present on the journey.
Fleischman has been with AIPAC for less than a month, yet he's already submitted his first lobbying filing on issues related to "U.S. Middle East foreign policy." AIPAC has been a loud and influential foil to the Obama administration on the Iran nuclear deal, and in July, Meng came out against the agreement saying that it was "simply too dangerous for the American people."
Before joining Meng, Fleischman worked as a lawyer for Wolff and Samson. Both he and Meng received their law degrees from Yeshiva University in New York.
