The lawmaker sponsoring legislation to strip Comptroller Peter Franchot’s office of its regulation and enforcement powers over alcohol, tobacco and motor fuels accused Franchot of using his office to “extort” money from the alcohol industry he regulates. “There has never been another comptroller that has abused the power and the authority of this once honorable office to extort hundreds and thousands of dollars from those industries the public entrusted him to regulate,” state Sen. Ben Kramer,…
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