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There’s a Legal Way to Do This

by Josh Marshall
04.03.13 | 1:46 pm

The biggest mystery about the new New York City mayoral election bribery scandal is why the would-be candidate at the center of the scandal, Malcolm Smith, didn’t just buy his way onto the GOP ticket the legal way like Mike Bloomberg did.

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