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This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.


Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the U.S.

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