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Inside the 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers
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Inside the 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers
Pete Marocco helped dismantle USAID in weeks. But for nearly two decades, he has been embroiled in a legal “boondoggle” in Tallahassee.
Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
(Illustration by Natalie Vineberg/The Washington Post; J. Scott Applewhite/AP; iStock)
By Rachel Kurzius
On a Friday afternoon in November 2015, a message arrived in the inbox of the owners of Design & More, a small Tallahassee interior design firm. The married couple behind the local business, Russell and Rose Marie Brabec, had been entangled in a bitter lawsuit for the better part of a decade. The email, addressed primarily to their defense attorney, began:
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Inside the 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers
Pete Marocco helped dismantle USAID in weeks. But for nearly two decades, he has been embroiled in a legal “boondoggle” in Tallahassee.
Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
(Illustration by Natalie Vineberg/The Washington Post; J. Scott Applewhite/AP; iStock)
By Rachel Kurzius
On a Friday afternoon in November 2015, a message arrived in the inbox of the owners of Design & More, a small Tallahassee interior design firm. The married couple behind the local business, Russell and Rose Marie Brabec, had been entangled in a bitter lawsuit for the better part of a decade. The email, addressed primarily to their defense attorney, began:
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