Mike Roman

Roman, whose 25-person intelligence-gathering unit was officially disbanded by the Kochs in 2016, was hired by Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign to oversee poll-watching in the final weeks before the election and was among a handful of unannounced hires who quietly joined the White House soon after Trump’s inauguration. Early in his career, Roman did political consulting work in New Jersey and his home state of Pennsylvania, as well as stints at the Republican National Committee and on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain. In much of his political work before joining the Koch network, Roman worked on boosting voter turnout and coordinating with state Republican Party leaders. Roman briefly cultivated a public profile, writing occasional bylined pieces from 2009 through 2011 for Breitbart News on topics ranging from alleged voter fraud in Pennsylvania and New York to the Department of Justice’s handling of the New Black Panther Party to a hit piece on Democratic Rep. John Adler.