TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 2, 2021

Campaign vendor Phoenix Solutions — under scrutiny after an FBI probe of several state legislators last month — appears to have improperly filed its application to do business in the state, TNJ: On the Hill reports. Washington-based Northwest Registered Agents LLC was hired in November 2019 to register Phoenix Solutions in New Mexico. An electronic signature in the name of a Northwest employee was also used to register Phoenix with the Tennessee Secretary of State four days later. A spokesperson for Northwest, however, said the filing “was unauthorized.” The company said it was not hired for registration purposes in Tennessee. Republican legislators did $231,144 worth of business with Phoenix, mostly under the direction of Rep. Robin Smith, R-Hixson. Smith, alongside former House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, Rep. Todd Warner, R- Chapel Hill, and former Casada aide Cade Cothren, is now at the center of the FBI probe. An anonymous source told the Tennessean earlier this month that Phoenix Solutions is owned by Cothren.