Blago and Madoff and the Culture of Access

Posted December 17, 2008 at 1:00am

Bernard Madoff
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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His columns appear on Wednesdays in CQ Politics.

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