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mcclatchydc WASHINGTON — A 19th-century Midwest skyscraper is the unlikely stage for an acutely modern drama involving political speech, foreign lobbying and the fraught relations between Armenia and Turkey.
On Thursday, the Ohio Elections Commission is set to rule on whether a challenger made reprehensible false statements when he claimed that a Republican incumbent had taken "blood money" from Turkish interests.
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Some allegations, too, seem torn from the tabloids, including an unproven but incendiary claim that female foreign agents have been used to sexually entrap members of Congress.
"These Turkish organizations and operatives, if they can't do it by money, they do it by blackmail, so they collect information on sexual lives and other information like that," Sibel Edmonds, who served several months as a part-time contract translator for the FBI, declared in an Aug. 8 deposition.
Turkish Embassy officials couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday, but Fein dismissed Edmonds' claims as a "phantasmagoria" and an "utterly ridiculous concoction." Edmonds didn't play any role in challenger David Krikorian's campaign, and Fein contends that Edmonds was summoned as a witness in order to create a buzz with "salacious" allegations.
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