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Congressman Duped Into Holding Sham Hearing

October 3, 2017 · 1:02 pm ET · Leave a Comment

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.

House of Representatives, Lobbyists Connie Mack, Ron Estes

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