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Mike Ford was following in his deadbeat father's footsteps when he turned himself around and worked his way into Harvard Law School. Now the ex-conman has landed a plum job, working for the Davies Group, Washington's most high-powered and well-respected strategic consulting firm. Their specialty: pulling strings and peddling influence for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway, the men and women who really run Washington, and by extension the country, and the world.