Sources: FBI examines lobbying by Brownback loyalists

[deminks]

http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-04-26/sources-fbi-examines-lobbying-brownback-loyalists

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is exploring whether confidantes of Gov. Sam Brownback operated influence-peddling operations in Kansas pivoting on personal access to the Republican governor and top administration officials.

The Topeka Capital-Journal learned the months-long inquiry involves Parallel Strategies, a rapidly expanding Topeka consulting and lobbying firm created in 2013 by a trio of veteran Brownback employees who left government service to work in an environment where coziness with former colleagues could pay dividends.

Of concern to the FBI were behind-the-scenes financial arrangements related to Brownback's privatization of the state's $3 billion Medicaid program. The governor's branding of KanCare handed to three for-profit insurance companies exclusive contracts to provide Medicaid services to 380,000 of Kansas' disabled and poor.

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Questions center on whether Brownback representatives pressed companies or organizations to hire specific lobbying firms or whether entities that showed inadequate deference were targeted for political or financial punishment.

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A lengthy article, too much to put here. Is that what they taught you in the C-street house, Sam?

[RKP5637]

1. It's pretty clear in KS, Brownbackistan, Sam and his cronies have no interest in Kansans unless

it involves fleecing them for money, denying benefits or pushing RW agendas onto them.