Stewart Grassie, an investor from Scotland, testified that he was solicited by a cold call from a Sky Capital representative and eventually decided to invest some money through Adam Harrington at Sky.

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The influence over federal money enjoyed by Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Charlie Rangel, now that the Democrats rule Congress, will help.

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Representative KIND: In fact, when we appropriate money to the National Institutes of Health, close to 50, 000 research grants are given out of a course of a fiscal year.

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He contacted the Benevolence International Foundation, a nonprofit in Chicago that sent money to Muslims overseas, and a foundation representative periodically visited Knoxville to pick up contributions.

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"President Obama's reverse course decision will cost the American taxpayer more money and upset our allies, " said Representative Mike Rogers, who chairs the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, which oversees ballistic missile defence.

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Players' union representative Stuart Lovell suggested that it might be more of a money-making exercise for the club than a useful way of unearthing talent.

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Representative TIM WALZ (Democrat, Minnesota): They don't want unaccounted money going to this war.

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Representative Rohrabacher is pushing for an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would make money to Pakistan contingent on the release of Dr. Afridi.

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In a related case, a Mexican citizen, Fernando Basurto, a principal of a Mexican company that served as a sales representative for ABB on its CFE contracts, pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to violate the FCPA and money laundering laws.

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