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Episode 5: Shut It Down

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The Lundeen-Verick Line of Investigation

Washington Post reporter Dillard Stokes saw someone taking material out of that apartment before prosecutors could show up and find it. The bags had been left at a storage room inside the Capitol that was controlled by a specific congressman. A staffer from that same Congressman's office arranged for that truck to go out that morning to that apartment to pick up all those heavy bags. Tonight, Representative Hamilton Fish, Republican of New York speaks to you from Washington.

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involvement with this Nazi agent George Sylvester Verick, involvement that lasted right up to Lundeen's death in a plane crash, with three members of the Justice Department dying alongside him. In following the Lundeen-Verick line of inquiry, Maloney had sent a subpoena to a man who was an employee of Verick, a DC-based publicist. When the publicist didn't respond to that subpoena, the court gave Maloney and his men the go-ahead to bust in and raid that publicist's apartment. That's where, to his surprise, Maloney found troves of documents linking Verick, not just with Senator Lundeen, but with other members of Congress as
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well. But what
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Maloney and his agents turned up in that raid, that was only what was left in the apartment by the time Maloney got there. The place had actually been mostly cleaned out before Maloney and his agents arrived. What Washington Post reporter Dillard Stokes saw from his taxicab that Friday morning in DC at that apartment that he'd gotten the tip about was someone taking a ton of material out of that apartment before prosecutors could show up and find it. So now, there are federal prosecutors who are clearly investigating what's going on here. But there's also the Washington Post, their reporter Dillard Stokes, who knows that federal prosecutors are on to something interesting. But he also knows that there's a cover-up underway. Someone is trying to hide evidence from these investigators. Someone may be in Congress. Dillard Stokes is a veteran investigative reporter. He knows what he's doing. And he just goes after this story. He's soon able to report where exactly those bags were dropped off by that truck that drove from the apartment building straight to the U.S. Capitol. The bags had been left at a storage room inside the Capitol that was controlled by a specific congressman. Dillard Stokes figured out which congressman. And Dillard Stokes figured out that it had been a staffer from that same Congressman's office who arranged for that truck to go out that morning to that apartment to pick up all those heavy bags. The congressman in question, the congressman whose office was apparently running this cover-up. He's a congressman with a name you will not soon forget. His name was Hamilton Fish. Hamilton Fish III, actually. He came from a long line of Hamilton Fishes.
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Tonight,
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Representative Hamilton Fish, Republican of New York and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House speaks to you from Washington.

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