Robert Allbritton

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Robert Lewis Allbritton (born February 16, 1969) is the founder of the news website The Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS) and the nonprofit Allbritton Journalism Institute. He is the founder and former owner of Capitol News Company, the parent company of Capitol Hill political newspaper and website Politico which in 2021 was acquired by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company, for over $1 billion. Allbritton also served as the chairman and CEO of Allbritton Communications, which owned several ABC-affiliated television stations in Washington, D.C. Allbritton was previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank, from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank amidst the money laundering scandal that involved the Allbritton family with the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which led him and his family to agree to pay US$1 million to a fund for victims of crimes against humanity during Pinochet's rule. Allbritton has been described...

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