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Millionaires get farm payments; nobody checking (AP)

 

Published 11/24/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - A sports team owner, a financial firm executive and residents of Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia were among 2,702 millionaire recipients of farm payments from 2003 to 2006 — and it's not even clear they were legitimate farmers, congressional investigators reported Monday. (link)

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