One of Rick Santorum’s top aides in South Carolina is a former lobbyist convicted of bribing a Senate aide in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal. James Hirni avoided prison by working as an informant, according to a Daily Beast profile in 2010. Now, Buzzfeed reports, he’s working on the Santorum campaign, though whether he’s a paid staffer or not is unclear.
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