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Family Values
"Los Angeles Times reporters over the last year and a half have documented a particularly insidious new gambit that special interests have devised to gain or increase influence with lawmakers: hiring their relatives and paying them lucrative lobbying or consulting fees. The practice has been used not just by U.S. interests but also by foreign citizens and governments."
Tags: government; lobbyists; contracts; bribery; campaign contributions; Maxine Waters; Curt Weldon; Qatar