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Oct 22, 2009

Taxicab Defendants Say They Were Clueless About Bribes

Photo by Sanjay Suchak If you’ve been following the large-scale FBI investigation into attempts to bribe public officials associated with the D.C. taxicab industry, you’ve got to read Jason Cherkis’s cover story this week in the Washington City Paper. Cherkis spent some time with a few of the 30+ men named in the indictment, and found that federal prosecutors may well be overreaching in their attempts to prosecute some of these guys. One of…

 
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