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Resource ID: #16276
Subject: Campaign Finance
Source: KWTV-TV (Oklahoma City)
Affiliation: 
Date: 1999-02-10

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KWTV-TV reports about "predatory lending practices by car title lenders and their links to political contributions and organized crime. Oklahoma lawmakers were taking out-of-state donations from a company with known ties to the Mob, then voting in favor of a law easing 'loan sharking' restrictions. That one company, making the donations, would make millions of dollars off economically disadvantaged Oklahomans. The series also showed how current laws regulating 'small loan' and 'pawn shops' were routinely being violated. News Nine explains how illegally 'flipping' loans causes outrageous debts for consumers..."

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