Hmmm.  The byline fails to fully identify DeWitt.  Here's from a Feb 9 ADN article: 

Another top Murkowski staffer, Denny DeWitt, registered as a lobbyist four days after leaving state service. One of his clients was the only phone company that had bid on a $30 million project to overhaul the state government's phone system — a project set up by a state department that was under DeWitt's oversight.