Paid

Scott Bensing

1058 Sawmill Road, Incline Village NV 89451

Lobbyist #6798 · 83rd (2025) Nevada Legislative Session · official source

Clients

2 clients represented in the 83rd Session

Each client below is a corporation, trade association, non-profit, or other organization that has registered this lobbyist as their advocate before the Nevada Legislature for the 2025 session. Click any client to see what they have spent on Nevada candidates and political committees.

AngloGold Ashanti North America

6363 S Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 1000, Greenwood Village 80111

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Coeur Mining

104 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 900, Chicago 60603

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Nevada Secretary of State business filings

NVSOS records for 1 of this lobbyist's clients

Per-client business-entity records sourced from the Nevada Secretary of State's nvsos_corporations registry, joined to this lobbyist's client roster by tokenwise-normalised name match. Includes corporation status, registered agent, formation date, and the current officer/director list as filed with the state.

Match is name-based — a client may correspond to multiple business filings (parent + subsidiary, foreign + domestic) or none at all if it is a federal entity, a political committee filed elsewhere, or a non-NV organisation. Entries with status Active are currently in good standing; Permanently Revoked, Dissolved, or Merged indicates the entity is no longer operational under that NV ID. Officer rosters are public records as of the most recent filing.

AngloGold Ashanti North America

ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI NORTH AMERICA INC.

Active · Foreign Corporation · formed 2000-06-30 · NV-ID 383964

Registered agent: COGENCY GLOBAL INC.*

Officers on file (4):

Lisa Ali — Director · Greenwood Village, CO
Terry Briggs — Director · Greenwood Village, CO
Gillian Doran — Director · Greenwood Village, CO
Marcelo Godoy — Director · Greenwood Village, CO

Auditor research leads

3 detector flag(s) on file for this lobbyist

The Nevada Political Establishment auditor cross-references this lobbyist against every Tier A/B/C/D/E1 detector. Each flag below is a research lead, not a published claim — verify against authoritative records before treating as evidence of wrongdoing. Most flags reflect structural patterns the public has a right to see, not necessarily violations.

Methodology · All auditor findings

Tier E1 Disclosed-vs-actual money-flow gap Direct submit correction

NRS 218H disclosed expenditures: $0. Detected money flow: $4,905 (campaign-account payments received: $4,905; unambiguous personal political contributions: $0). Gap: $4,905. NRS 218H scope is gifts/benefits to legislators, not personal income — the gap is a transparency signal, not a violation per se.

Tier D Politician-paid — campaign accounts paid this lobbyist Direct submit correction

Cross-reference of cf_expenditures (NV SOS) against the registered-lobbyist roster: $4,905 received from 1 candidate/committee account(s) across 3 payment(s).

Payer	Amount	#
Joseph Lombardo	$4,905	3

Tier D Quid-pro-quo chain(s) — 1 pattern(s) detected Indirect submit correction

For each row: candidate's campaign paid this lobbyist, the lobbyist represents the client, the client contributed to the candidate, and (where shown) the candidate sponsored or voted-Yea on a bill the client took a position on. Each link is innocent in isolation; the bundled correlation is the signal. Citation: Stigler 1971, Olson 1965, NRS 281A.420 / 218H / 294A.

Candidate (R)	Client (C)	L paid	C → R	Bill / action

NRS 218H disclosure

Reported $0 in legislator gifts/benefits for the 83rd Session

The Nevada Legislature's official lobbyist-expenditure report shows this lobbyist filed monthly returns for the 83rd Session and reported no benefits provided to any legislator or staff member. Source: NV Legislature 83rd Session Lobbyist Expenditures Report.

Federal lobbying

U.S. Senate LDA filings for 2 of this lobbyist's clients

Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) registrant + filing records sourced from lda.senate.gov, joined to this lobbyist's client roster by tokenwise-normalised name match. Shows the federal-side lobbying firms representing the same clients this lobbyist represents at the Nevada legislature.

AngloGold Ashanti North America — 4 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firm	Client name at LDA	Filings	Source
CASSIDY & ASSOCIATES, INC.	ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI NORTH AMERICA, INC.	1	LDA filing
CROWELL & MORING LLP	ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI NORTH AMERICA, INC.	1	LDA filing
KSG LLC, DBA KLEIN AND SAKS GROUP	ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI NORTH AMERICA INC	1	LDA filing
C&M CAPITOLINK	ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI NORTH AMERICA	1	LDA filing

Coeur Mining — 2 federal registrant(s)

Federal registrant firm	Client name at LDA	Filings	Source
BLANK ROME GOVERNMENT RELATIONS	COEUR MINING	1	LDA filing
FREEMYER & ASSOCIATES P.C.	COEUR MINING, INC.	1	LDA filing

Coalition cluster (Louvain community)

This lobbyist sits in a 52-member coalition cluster (56 client(s) in cluster)

Derived by Louvain community detection (Blondel et al. 2008) on the bipartite lobbyist-client representation graph — clusters are industries-as-observed, not pre-labeled. Other lobbyists in this same observed coalition · representative clients: City of Las Vegas, Republic Services, Barrick:

Esthefany Arochi 7349, Nikki Bailey Lundahl 6186, Noa Banayan 6964, Paige Barnes 6977, Marnee Benson 7163, Allen Biaggi 6780, Michael Britt 7128, Daniel Bryant 7401, Chris Burke 7301, Elisa Cafferata 6402, Nicholas Callero 6315, Sequoya Casey 7033 +39 more

Personal political contributions

Their own giving

Contributions made personally under this lobbyist's first and last name in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset.

Total personally given

$8K

All Nevada filings, 2016–2026.

Contributions

After dedup of superseded reports.

Recipients

Distinct candidates, parties, or committees.

Top recipients

Who received their personal checks

Up to ten recipients of this lobbyist's personal contributions, ranked by total amount. Amounts are cumulative across all reporting years on file. Recipients can be candidates, parties, or political committees.

#	Recipient	Total	Contributions
1	RJoseph LombardoGovernor · NV SOS	$4,905	3
2	RJill DickmanState Assembly, District 31 · WASHOE COUNTY	$1,000	1
3	Alex WoodleyWashoe County School Board Trustee, District E · WASHOE COUNTY	$500	1
4	RDonald TatroState Senate, District 16 · NV SOS	$300	1
5	RHeidi GansertOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN	$250	1
6	RBob LuceyWashoe County Commissioner, District 2 · WASHOE COUNTY	$250	1
7	NPDarin BalaamSheriff, Washoe County · WASHOE COUNTY	$250	1
8	DDevon ReeseCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 5 · CITY OF RENO	$250	1

Full contribution log

Every contribution, newest first

10 individual contributions on file in the Nevada Secretary of State campaign-finance dataset, deduplicated.

Date	Recipient	Type	Amount
2026-06-24	RJoseph LombardoGovernor · NV SOS	In Kind Contribution	$2,250
2024-07-25	RJoseph LombardoGovernor · NV SOS	In Kind Contribution	$1,500
2024-05-22	Alex WoodleyWashoe County School Board Trustee, District E · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$500
2022-05-12	RDonald TatroState Senate, District 16 · NV SOS	In Kind Contribution	$300
2022-04-28	RJoseph LombardoGovernor · NV SOS	In Kind Contribution	$1,155
2019-12-10	DDevon ReeseCity of Reno, City Council, Ward 5 · CITY OF RENO	Monetary Contribution	$250
2019-09-12	RHeidi GansertOffice Not Specified · UNKNOWN	Monetary Contribution	$250
2018-03-30	NPDarin BalaamSheriff, Washoe County · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$250
2017-05-11	RBob LuceyWashoe County Commissioner, District 2 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$250
2016-11-03	RJill DickmanState Assembly, District 31 · WASHOE COUNTY	Monetary Contribution	$1,000

Ambiguity flag: the Nevada SOS dataset contains more than one contributor with this first/last name. The numbers and recipient list above sum across all matching name records and may include contributions from another individual sharing the same name. Cities on file for this name: Incline Village, NV, Las Vegas, NV, Reno, NV. Treat as a research lead, not a definitive total.

This number reflects what the lobbyist has personally given to candidates, parties, and political committees in Nevada — not what their clients have given. The two channels frequently overlap: a paid advocate who also writes a personal check to the legislator they're lobbying is using both kinds of access at once.

Sources & references

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Nevada Legislature lobbyist registry (83rd Session)

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