Politics

How the U.S. Paid for Foreign Dictator to Court GOP Governor

NOT OK

The secret agent at the center of Rep. Henry Cuellar’s bribery scandal organized an event that led Gov. Kevin Stitt to visit Azerbaijan—and U.S. foreign aid dollars underwrote it.

William Bredderman
William Bredderman 

Senior Researcher

Top secret file folder with a picture of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters
William Bredderman

William Bredderman

Senior Researcher

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