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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIowa landowner offers details on Bakken pipeline prostitution allegations
Iowa landowner offers details on Bakken pipeline prostitution allegations
May 13, 2015
When Hughie Tweedy announced Monday that he had recorded evidence of a pipeline agent offering him prostitutes in exchange for land access, he says it felt as though a great weight had been lifted.
I dont know if itll do me any good, I dont know if itll do me any bad, but Im glad I did it, said Tweedy when reached by phone later that evening.
The landowner from Lee County, Iowa made the announcement on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol Monday morning with his family and state senator present. There, he told reporters that a representative on behalf of Dakota Access LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, had offered him prostitutes in exchange for access to his land ....
May 13, 2015
When Hughie Tweedy announced Monday that he had recorded evidence of a pipeline agent offering him prostitutes in exchange for land access, he says it felt as though a great weight had been lifted.
I dont know if itll do me any good, I dont know if itll do me any bad, but Im glad I did it, said Tweedy when reached by phone later that evening.
The landowner from Lee County, Iowa made the announcement on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol Monday morning with his family and state senator present. There, he told reporters that a representative on behalf of Dakota Access LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, had offered him prostitutes in exchange for access to his land ....
Update: Authorities ... and have subpoenaed the audio recordings...
Newstrack: Prostitutes-for-pipeline accuser loses land to eminent domain
No criminal charges to be filed in prostitutes-for-pipeline allegations
Secret recording embarrassing for company, but no criminal intent, prosecutor says
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Iowa landowner offers details on Bakken pipeline prostitution allegations (Original Post)
Coyotl
Sep 2016
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2naSalit
(87,028 posts)1. Sounds like the pipeline folks
are pretty desperate.
bluedigger
(17,091 posts)2. Sounds more like ruthlessness to me.
They will do anything to get what they want.
like to lay pipe just sayin