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Shadow Diplomats have posed a threat for decades. Governments looked the other way.
The deal to pay off the treasurer of Detroit was forged in a booth at a strip club named Bouzouki. “You’re basically paying all these other guys. … You should be paying me,” the city’s treasurer told local business owner Robert Shumake that day in 2007 during a conversation that Shumake would later recount to federal prosecutors. Shumake, a self-described community organizer and philanthropist, agreed to make payments to several officials who ran the city’s pension funds. The money was used, among other things, to cover gambling expenses, airline tickets and a day cruise to the Bahamas. In return, Shumake received a lucrative reward: Detroit steered millions of pension dollars to his investm

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