A global energy firm was confronted with a major financial problem when its foreign partners refused to give it timely access to its share of cash returns.  Even worse, political allies of the firm began to elicit unfounded accusations from that country’s regulators.  The White House Writers Group launched a six-month, earned-media campaign aimed at financial elites to focus international pressure on the host country.  The result was the successful sale of the client’s interest in the partnership on favorable terms.