1. John Vincent Weber was born on July 24,1952 and is an American politician and lobbyist from Minnesota.
13 Facts About Vin Weber
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Vin Weber attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities from 1970 to 1974.
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Vin Weber had been the co-publisher of Murray County, Minnesota newspaper from 1976 to 1978 and the president of Weber Publishing Company.
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Vin Weber was a delegate to the Minnesota State Republican conventions in 1972 and 1978.
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Vin Weber chose not to run for reelection in 1992 and retired from Congress following the House banking scandal, in which he was implicated for writing 125 bad checks worth nearly $48,000.
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Vin Weber was a commentator on NPR the following year about developments in Congress after the Republicans took control of the House, providing commentary on the "revolution" he had helped create.
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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting reported that Vin Weber frequently offered his opinions on NPR about health care issues, but never revealed that he was a paid lobbyist for several health insurance giants.
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Vin Weber is chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.
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Vin Weber is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he is co-director of the Policy Forum.
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Vin Weber serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School and the nonprofit radio show America Abroad.
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Vin Weber is a board member of several private-sector and nonprofit organizations, including the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute, Department 56, and the Aspen Institute.
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Vin Weber serves on the board of The Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired the Independent Task Force on US Policy toward Reform in the Arab World with former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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From 2012 until February 2014 and directed by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, Vin Weber, who was the principal for Mercury's Ukraine-related lobbying portfolio beginning in 2012, acted as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and foreign political party, a felony offense under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, with a penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.