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True story: John Solomon featured in my Master's thesis a few years ago for his role in allowing Azerbaijan's lobbyists to whitewash the Azeri dictatorship without disclosing their financial ties.
(Here's the Master's thesis: scribd.com/document/42723…) 
Solomon also told me there would be a correction issued clarifying that the Azeri lobbyist writing for him was in fact an Azeri lobbyist.
(Spoiler: No correction was ever issued.)
(Spoiler: No correction was ever issued.)
Here's more background on how Solomon allowed Azeri lobbyists to write in the Washington Times without disclosure: washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wem…
(Solomon claimed the lack of disclosure was due to a "placement error"... which is an excuse I've never seen elsewhere! medium.com/@cjcmichel/aze…)
The Hill, The Daily Caller, and The Washington Times have been the go-to outlets for foreign (especially post-Soviet) autocracies to launder their image and spout their propaganda lines the past few years.
