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Senate Panel Launches Bipartisan Probe Into Think Tank Linked To Butina, Torshin

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent letters to the Center for Public Interest, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department asking for information about meetings with Russians in 2015.

The Senate Finance Committee is launching a bipartisan investigation into how a conservative think tank aided Maria Butina, the admitted Russian agent who sought political influence through her ties with the National Rifle Association.

Butina to acting as a foreign agent in the United States in December, and her alleged Russian government handler,

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