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Alma Adams: “This fleecing of the trust fund and taxpayers has occurred under DOL's nose, despite the Department's power to prevent…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2021
This fleecing of the trust fund and taxpayers has occurred under DOL's nose, despite the Department's power to prevent it . . . The winners are the coal operators and their Wall Street creditors. The losers are the American taxpayers.
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Alma Adams
Democratic · North Carolina

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Criticism of the Department of Labor's failure to protect taxpayer interests.

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