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Paul Tonko: Those investigations led to settlement agreements between all 50 states and the tobacco industry for hundreds of…

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
Those investigations led to settlement agreements between all 50 states and the tobacco industry for hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko compares ExxonMobil investigations to past tobacco industry fraud cases.

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