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# Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Tells U.K. Lawmakers His Predecessor Was Poisoned

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_Published 2018-03-27. Christopher Wylie told Members of Parliament in the U.K. that he believes his predecessor at the firm was poisoned in a Kenyan hotel room after a deal went wrong._


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## Transcript

If I explain it just if you understand that it's pure speculation so I'm not stating this as a matter of fact I'm just repeating what I heard. What I heard was that he was working on some Some kind of deal of some sort. I'm not sure exactly what kind of deal it is, but when you work for senior politicians in a lot of these countries, you don't actually make money in the electoral work. You make money in the influence brokering after the fact. And that a deal went sour And again, this is what I've been told so I'm not saying this is a matter of face but people suspected that he was poisoned in his hotel room.

I also heard that the police got bribed to not enter the hotel room for 24 hours. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But that is what I was told, I wasn't there so I can't speak to the veracity of that account, but that's what I was told.

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