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The U.S. has gone into business with a man once convicted of money laundering to build its largest consulate in the world.
The Eko Atlantic development in Lagos, Nigeria.
Photographer: Paul Richardson\/Bloomberg
Neil Munshi<\/a> and
William Clowes<\/a>
On March 31, billionaire Gilbert Chagoury stood atop the plot of land he’d dredged from the sea around Lagos, beaming in the sweltering heat alongside U.S. Consul-General to Nigeria Claire Pierangelo, as they broke ground for America’s largest consulate in the world.
As a cool spring rain fell on Washington that day, Republican Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, of Nebraska, resigned from the House of Representatives after a conviction announced a week earlier. His crime: lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about illegal campaign contributions he’d received from Chagoury.<\/p>\n

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