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New financial documents have been unearthed raising questions about the bank run by Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde. On Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Sunwest Bank — whose website lists Hovde as its chairman and CEO — was the recipient of a $26.2 million cash transaction from scandal-ridden, Mexico-based Banco Azteca. The paper reported that Banco Azteca flew four planeloads full of cash from Mexico to the U.S. last December as part of a currency conversion known as “repatriation.” Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesman called the new revelations abo…

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