Influence, not control.
Properly done, influence looks quite a bit like control.
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Laundered money for the Cabal.
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Ran drugs through AZ using his adult beverage distributorship
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Used his position as a senior Senator to front for establishing C_A weapons pipelines to bad guys, and to influence contracting to line the pockets of the Cabal
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All of the above resulted in the deaths of numerous innocent civilians and US troops