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Thu Jun 15, 2017, 03:02 PM Jun 2017

Key parts of Sessions testimony were just contradicted by this oil lobbyist

The Guardian reports that Richard Burt, who served as ambassador to Germany during the Reagan administration and who has lobbied on behalf of a pipeline company that’s now controlled by Russian state-owned energy conglomerate Gazprom, has admitted to attending two dinners organized by Sessions last year during the height of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I did attend two dinners with groups of former Republican foreign policy officials and Senator Sessions,” Burt told the Guardian.

This is notable, writes the Guardian, because “Sessions testified under oath on Tuesday that he did not believe he had any contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests over the course of Trump’s campaign.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/busted-key-parts-of-sessions-testimony-were-just-contradicted-by-this-oil-lobbyist‬

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