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Matt Cartwright: “On May 2nd, you [the witness] blew the lid off of an amazing…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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'Everybody Knows': Matt Cartwright Slams Oil Companies 'Conspiring With OPEC' To Keep Prices High

Published | Video Starts at 00:40

You are following up an American tradition started by Teddy Roosevelt, a great progressive, and I thank you for it. Last week, well, two weeks ago, On May 2nd, you [the witness] blew the lid off of an amazing scandal of a Texas oil executive who was caught attempting to collude and conspiring to collude with other Texas oil companies, other American oil companies and officials at OPEC. the Saudi Arabian and the Middle Eastern conglomeration of oil producing countries, oil producing and exporting countries. You caught this man colluding. You caught this man conspiring to collude with other companies, with opec. (00:40–01:17)

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Asserts that a Texas oil executive was caught attempting to collude with other oil companies and OPEC.

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