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Bondage Club Patron ID'd as RNC Member, Not Steele

Erik Brown will return $2K reimbursement

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 29, 2010 4:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Republican Party official reimbursed for nearly $2,000 spent at an LA fetish club was a member of the RNC, not committee chair Michael Steele. The mystery patron who hit up the RNC for the $1,946 he spent at Voyeur West Hollywood is... Read full story »

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