Leo Giacometto

[3] In 2019, Giacometto was engaged to Aurelia Skipwith, an attorney, biologist, and former lobbyist for Monsanto who was President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

[8] After a national magazine identified Giacometto as the single congressional staffer "who took the most junkets at the expense of industry and other private interests", he left Burns' employ in 1999 to become a lobbyist for Morrison–Knudsen.

[2] Upon the election of Governor Judy Martz, she appointed Giacometto to one Montana's two seats on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC), where he annually earned US$87,600 (equivalent to $150,736 in 2023).

[2] In 2001, Giacometto submitted a falsified travel invoice in connection with his appointed duties, for which he was being prosecuted in 2002 by the Lewis and Clark county attorney;[9] he was acquitted of the misdemeanor in January 2001 by a six-member jury.

"[3] Giacometto was also the subject of investigation by Lewis and Clark County law enforcement officers for allegedly threatening Missoulian columnist Mary Jo Fox (through state senator John Harp) for an article critical of the governor.