Six months after the election, Corey Lewandowski is taking another turn though the revolving door that often spun around Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Lewandowski, who served as Trump’s campaign manager from the get-go only to get fired four months before Election Day and resigned from his gig at CNN in the days following Trump’s win, stepped down from the lobbying firm he co-founded in the wake of the campaign, according to an interview he gave to Bloomberg. In recent weeks, Lewandowski, who has not registered as a lobbyist despite the fact that his firm has touted its access to the White House, has faced sharp criticism about whether he is using his shop to capitalize on those relationships on behalf of his clients.

On Thursday, he told Bloomberg that his decision to leave comes because his firm, Avenue Strategies, has used his name to draw in business from foreign clients without him knowing.

As Politico reported last month, an affiliate of Avenue Strategies peddled its access to President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and other top administration officials. According to Lewandowski, they did so without his approval and without him knowing about it, and he’s willing to distance himself from the firm in order to avoid raising red flags and creating negative press for the White House.

Lewandowski insisted that he has turned down the president’s offer to help him and has not asked anyone in the administration to take a meeting with a client. He also defended the fact that he has not registered as a lobbyist, saying he only advises clients on how to shape their messages to Trump and the White House. They hire him, he said, because they “simply want to understand how decisions are made inside the administration and I happen to understand at some level the president’s thought process and the individuals who are around him, only because I spent so much time.” When people ask him for specific requests, like getting a meeting with Tump, he says he doesn’t do that, nor does he lobby Capitol Hill.

That doesn’t mean that he himself didn’t turn down meetings with Trump even though he was at a lobbying firm. The Avenue Strategies office is, after all, less than a block down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. “On the occasions I’ve had the opportunity to see him or speak to him, he’s asked me do I need anything and every time I’ve said, ‘No, I don’t,’” he said. “I’m not in the business of asking the president for favors. That’s not my job or my role. I’m sure he has enough requests already for things and I don’t ask him for anything.”

Despite his claims, a government ethics group, Public Citizen, asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate whether Lewandowski should have registered as a lobbyist. A day later, he stepped down from the firm.

“The most important thing is my reputation, and I’ve worked really hard in the face of adversity to try to be successful,” he said. “I know I have a giant target on my back. People want to see me fail.”