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Dan , Lawmaker Touched by Scandal, Is Dead

By KEITH SCHNEIDER
Published: August 11, 2010


Dan Rostenkowski, who mastered the craft of brokering and compromise to become one of the nation’s most influential congressmen but whose imprisonment on fraud charges came to symbolize the excesses of power, died Wednesday at his vacation home on Benedict Lake in Wisconsin. He was 82 and also lived in Chicago, in the house where he grew up.

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Originally posted by mincingbeast:
I suspect the vast right wing conspiracy is at work.

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