Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, got $41,375 [from Stanford's firm]. Spokeswoman Emily Davis said Sessions didn’t know Stanford personally.
But then there’s this awkward photo:
…from that 2005 junket that a group of lawmakers took to Antigua (paid for by the Stanford-linked Inter-American Economic Council) and it shows Sessions, now the NRCC chair, happily chatting with the cricket-loving billionaire.
And in 2006, Sessions’ chief of staff told Bloomberg that the two men did know each other — indeed, that Stanford asked Sessions to become a member of the Caribbean Caucus.
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