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Donation list names the great and the good of US politics

By Andrew Ward in Washington

Published: February 19 2009 22:16 | Last updated: February 19 2009 22:16

It reads like a who’s who of US politics, from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the left to John McCain and George W. Bush on the right.

On Thursday, many of the politicians who received campaign donations from Allen Stanford and his associates were scrambling to distance themselves from the Texas billionaire as federal authorities investigated an alleged $8bn investment fraud at his Antigua-based investment bank.

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