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Lobbyists Arranged N.Y. Congressman’s $20,000 Trip to Taiwan

Satra Kit

Published: Friday 11 May 2012

“Congressional ethics rules prohibit members from participating in most trips arranged by lobbyists.”

Although Owens filed a travel disclosure with the House Ethics Committee that identifies the trip’s sponsor as the Culture University, email messages and other documents reviewed by ProPublica show that lobbyists from the New York firm Park Strategies, founded by former New York Sen. Al D’Amato, had invited Owens on the trip and spent four months organizing it.

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