Reporter’s Notebook: Lobbying rules trip up CNO nominee

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130412-N-WL435-116 ARLINGTON, Va. (April 12, 2013) Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Adm. John Richardson gives his keynote remarks at the 2013 Washington, D.C. Area Submarine Birthday Ball. The Submarine Ball celebrated 113 years of traditions and historic contributions of the U.S. Submarine Force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter D. Lawlor/Released)

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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