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Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator's Coal Companies
A criminal investigation into a sitting senator's coal companies, closed. Rust-belt accountability and squarely in the public interest, and it rests in part on sources who are not named. That is a different evidentiary shape from the records-driven work around it here, and worth saying plainly rather than leaving a reader to work out.
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