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Cash and Favors: Robert Klein Gives $21,630 to the California Stem Cell Agency

Cash and Favors: Robert Klein Gives $21,630 to the California Stem Cell Agency

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May 06, 2013
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Cash and Favors: Robert Klein Gives $21,630 to the California Stem Cell Agency
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A seemingly innocuous $21,630 gift to the California stem cell agency has kicked up new questions about a controversial $20 million research award and generated a wave of special favors for the donor that stretched out to include a gold mining multimillionaire from Canada.

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Elie Dolgin/Nature photoThe gift was made last May by Robert Klein, ch…

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