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Senior Defense Department official charged with helping run dogfights

Oct 03, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -34% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Medium Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Frederick D. Moorefield Jr., the Pentagon's deputy chief information officer, 62, and co-defendant Mario Flythe, 49, were charged by federal authorities with promoting and furthering an animal fighting venture.
45% : Twelve dogs were seized by federal authorities after searches of Moorefield and Flythe's Maryland homes on Sept. 6.
43% : Moorefield and the others also discussed how to hide their dogfighting from law enforcement, according to the affidavit.
35% : A Pentagon spokesperson said that the Defense Department is "aware of the criminal complaint" and that Moorefield "is no longer working in this building," and referred any additional questions to law enforcement.

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