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Article: Philip Morris helped fund trips Thompson was among VIPs who traveled through groups backed by firm
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 30, 1997
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Philip Morris, the state's largest private employer, provided
funding through three non-profit groups to send Gov. Tommy Thompson
on three overseas trips.
Public records reviewed by the Journal Sentinel suggest the trips
worth about $16,000 total provided convenient access for Philip
Morris officials to Thompson and the few other governors who
participated in the June 1996 trip to Australia and a weeklong
southern Africa trip in December 1995. The records and interviews
show Philip Morris as the primary funder of those trips, through its
support of two non-profit groups, the America-European Community
Association (AECA) and the New York Society for International
Affairs.
The trips were ...