UK-US Lobbying Scandal Revealed

The British government has been secretly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers' money to US lobbyists in a bid to win contracts for British defense companies and to maintain good bilateral ties.

A Daily Telegraph report disclosed in a report on Wednesday that O'Brien & Associates, a Washington-based firm of lobbyists, has received more than $500,000 of British taxpayers' money over the past four years.

The lobbying firm is a specialist in working on behalf of major defense companies in the US capitol and its president has donated money to both Republican and Democrat politicians.'

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