Former Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) “appears to have duped” Rep. Ron Estes’s (R-KS) office “into organizing a sham ‘hearing’ that aired on Ukrainian television on behalf of a shadowy lobbying client implicated in the Panama Papers leak,” the Daily Beast reports.
Congressman Duped Into Holding Sham Hearing
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