Hedge Funds
The Washington Post fact checker on Wednesday gave Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) "three Pinocchios" for claiming in a recent campaign ad that a hedge fund in New York was responsible for shutting down a Wisconsin factory and making the town it was in go "bankrupt." "A hedge fund in New York takes control of a great Wisconsin business, shuts down a factory, and 450 people lose their jobs," Baldwin says in the ad, "Predator," released on March 27. "The town of Brokaw goes bankrupt. It's not right.

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