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Coyotl

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Fri Sep 9, 2016, 08:49 AM Sep 2016

Iowa 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 don’t know if it’ll do me any good, I don’t know if it’ll do me any bad, but I’m 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 OP
Sounds like the pipeline folks 2naSalit Sep 2016 #1
Sounds more like ruthlessness to me. bluedigger Sep 2016 #2
they do plcdude Sep 2016 #3
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