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On 9 January 2018, the Patriot Post web site published an article reporting that the charitable foundation established by former president Barack Obama in 2017 was being investigated by federal officials on racketeering charges: None of this was true: No real news outlet has reported that any federal investigations or imminent indictments of the Obama Foundation by the U.S. Department of Justice are currently pending, and at this point the greatest controversy associated with that foundation concerns the location of a parking garage on the Obama Presidential Center campus. This report originated solely with the Patriot Post, which is part of a network of fake news sites that deal in political clickbait trolling and falsely label themselves as satire:
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