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Lisa Gilbert

Lisa Gilbert is vice president of legislative affairs for Public Citizen.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (C) is led away handcuffed by officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force at the Nassau, Bahamas, courthouse on December 19, 2022. (KRIS INGRAHAM/AFP via Getty Images)

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s dark-money political donations fueled his massive fraud

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James Comey; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump’s new red herring: IG report on Clinton email probe proves Comey “witch hunt”

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Michael Cohen (AP/Andrew Harnik/Salon)

Corporate lobbying comes at a price: The lesson of AT&T’s Michael Cohen fiasco

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Jeff Sessions; Rachel Brand; Rod Rosenstein (AP/Jeff Malet Photography)

DOJ lawyers have a duty to resist Trump on Russia probe

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Goldman Sachs’ secret plan to get political disclosure requirements sacked

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Worse than a government shutdown? Beware hidden poison pills in GOP spending bill

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