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Obama Will Give Aunt Her Money Back

'Auntie Zeituni' found to be living illegally in US

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 1, 2008 3:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – Barack Obama’s campaign will return donations made by his aunt, who was outed yesterday as an illegal resident in the US, the Washington Post reports. Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of the candidate’s late father, lives in a Boston public housing unit and gave... Read full story »

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