Oklahoma Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin reportedly threatened staffers at the American embassy in Tajikistan after they refused to help him move a large amount of money through the country to enter neighboring Afghanistan to try and rescue a family stranded there.
Mullin told embassy staffers that he wanted to hire a helicopter to enter the country in order to rescue an American woman and her four children, according to The Washington Post. He purportedly asked staffers to help him bypass laws governing how much cash he could bring to the country, and embassy staffers told the Post that when they refused he became furious, threatening both them and U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan John Mark Pommersheim, though they did not elaborate on the nature of his threats.
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