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It's not called the swamp for nothing.

From Environmental Protection Agency administrators buying big oil stocks to Department of Defense officials snatching up shares of fighter jet companies involved in major deals with the Pentagon, the Nation's Capital is flush with thousands of top government employees invested in businesses their agencies oversaw between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report published Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal. What could go wrong?

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