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“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress,” Mark Twain used to joke. He was speaking from personal experience. Before his pen name became famous, Samuel L. Clemens worked in Congress, serving as an aide to Nevada Sen. William Stewart in the late 1860s, a corrupt era Twain later dubbed “the Gilded Age.” …
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