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blog.newsweek.com - 10/19/2009
Newsweek: Firm with Obama ties cashes in overseas
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After the election, a group of the president's top campaign strategists moved to capitalize on their success — in the Ukraine. Critics charge it poses some of the same ethically problematic entanglements that Obama denounces.

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Ben Smith's Blog:  Look who's working in Kiev

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Look who's working in Kiev
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Newsweek reports today on its new investigative blog that AKPD media, along with an Obama pollster, have gone to work for Julia Tymoshenko, another leading Ukrainian political figure, and suggest the possibilities of a conflict of interest, or that the Ukrainians at least think they're buying influence. ...

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