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Jake Johnson

EXPLAINED: Goper brags aide leaving for wall street - The Real Truth

Representative Trey Hollingsworth, a Republican from Indiana, speaks at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on September 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

During a bank oversight hearing this week, Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth boasted that one of his staffers would soon be leaving Congress to work on Wall Street, offering a glimpse of the legalized corruption that permeates the highest levels of the U.S. political system.

Perhaps free to speak so candidly because he's not running for reelection, Hollingsworth (Ind.) happily announced that one of his top aides, Sruthi Prabhu, is departing his office next week to join Bank of America, a powerful institution whose CEO testified at Wednesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing alongside other top industry executives.

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