Reporter's Notebook: Lobbying rules trip up CNO nominee

For Navy Times, the allegations that CNO nominee Adm. John Richardson and Rear Adm. Joseph Tofalo, head of the Pentagon's Undersea Warfare shop, violated the 1913 Anti-Lobbying Act triggered a crash-course in arcane lobbying rules that

almost

everybody in Washington has seemingly figured out how to circumvent.

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