McCain and His Lobbyists

Charles Black, McCain's chief political adviser, kept working as a lobbyist on behalf of more than a dozen corporate clients while serving as a full-time unpaid adviser on McCain's campaign. Black's firm, BKSH & Associates, has also represented anti-democratic dictators and regimes in Zaire, Somalia, Nigeria and the Philippines.

Before retiring from the firm in March, Black told the Washington Post he did much of his lobbying work by phone on the Straight Talk Express, McCain's campaign bus.

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)