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Congress calls on Department of Justice to investigate British American Tobacco

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Photo by Jomar Thomas

Following multiple reports of widespread and systematic bribery of politicians and policymakers across Central and East Africa by British American Tobacco (BAT), U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released a letter calling for an immediate investigation of BAT—the world’s second largest publicly-traded tobacco corporation.