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Solyndra Execs Will Take the Fifth Before Congress

Two top executives from the embattled company Solyndra will appear before Congress later this week, but their lawyers announced today that they will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer questions. "This is not a decision arrived at lightly, but it is a decision dictated by current circumstances," wrote Walter F. Brown Jr., the lawyer for Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison in a letter to Congress. Among those circumstances, the lawyer said, is a broadening investigation by the FBI...Full Story
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