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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-08 08:19 PM
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DOESN'T THIS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE GOING INTO A RAGE
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Washington Nationals played their first-ever baseball game in the nation's capital in April 2005, two congressmen who oversaw mortgage giant Freddie Mac had choice seats -- courtesy of the very company they were supposed to be keeping an eye on.
Efforts to tighten government regulation were gaining support on Capitol Hill, and Freddie Mac was fighting back. The baseball tickets for home opener were means of influence.

According to confidential company documents obtained by The Associated Press, Reps. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, and Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., spent the evening in hard-to-obtain seats near the Nationals dugout with Freddie Mac executive Hollis McLoughlin and four of Freddie Mac's in-house lobbyists.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081207/the_influence_game_freddie_mac.html
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