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The man replacing Acosta -- deputy labor secretary Pat Pizzella -- was a former associate of disgraced lobbyist felon Jack Abramoff who pushed for "unchecked slave labor" on N. Mariana Islands. You couldn't make this stuff up civilrights.org/resource/oppos…
According to Mother Jones, our new Labor boss Pizzella lobbied "to rein in a guest worker program that the Labor Department found relied on indentured workers." motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
"When Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asked Pizzella whether he knew about reports of forced abortions and routine beatings at the time, Pizzella replied, 'I was not aware of any such thing.'”
“Human rights groups alleged that foreign laborers were subject to sweatshop conditions, often as indentured servants, and were forced INTO THE SEX-TOURISM INDUSTRY,” Bloomberg BNA reported. politico.com/tipsheets/morn…
Pizzellagate > Pizzagate
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