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Emails show Wachovia's lobbying on bailout

The U.S. Treasury recently provided the Observer with 17 pages of emails and other documents as part of a nearly three-year-old Freedom of Information Act request.The documents show Wachovia's lobbying related to the bank bailout bill in September 2008 and other interactions with Treasury.Click here to read the documents. - Rick Rothacker
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