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CIA Super Spy, or Super Con?

Big time financier and politico Imaad Zuberi, facing serious prison time over illegal campaign contributions, aims to prove he was a major CIA asset.

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Jeff Stein
Mar 28, 2021
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In the long and colorful annals of international con men, swindlers and scalawags, a handful stand out for using their hitherto unknown connections to the CIA to “gray mail” government prosecutors into dropping charges or shaving years off long prison terms.

Now comes Imaad Zuberi, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan who is facing 12 years in prison…

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