Does anyone remember reading about a house in DC owned by a shadowy Republican organization?

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17. This was a different strand--money worship more than weird religious cultish stuff.

Things got bad for the K Street gang, at least for a while:

“Yet, nothing lasts forever. Amidst a populist backlash to the soaring inequality these lobbyists helped usher in, Washington's pro-business alliance suddenly began to unravel. And while new ways for corporations to control the federal government would emerge, the men who'd once built K Street found themselves under legal scrutiny and on the verge of financial collapse. One had his namesake firm ripped away by his own colleagues. Another watched his business shut down altogether. One went to prison. And one was found dead behind the 18th green of an exclusive golf club, with a bottle of $1,500 wine at his feet and a bullet in his head.”