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Sheldon Whitehouse: “There is nothing in the First Amendment that protects anybody's right to violate disclosure laws through a shell…”

On the recordApril 8, 2013
There is nothing in the First Amendment that protects anybody's right to violate disclosure laws through a shell corporation.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse argues that the First Amendment does not allow violations of disclosure laws.

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