Prosecutors Target 'Pay-to-Play'; Influence-Peddling Crackdown Spreads Across the Nation

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › October 08, 2004

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Independently, and apparently on their own initiative, federal prosecutors around the country have been waging war on a generations-old practice known as pay-to-play, in which political contributors are rewarded with government contracts or other favors.

In Philadelphia, the public became aware of the battle a year ago when police discovered a bug the FBI had installed in the mayor's office.

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Prosecutors Target 'Pay-to-Play'; Influence-Peddling Crackdown Spreads Across the Nation

Since then, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia has revealed in...

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