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An unsealed legal filing reveals details about L.A. artist Shepard Fairey being the subject of a federal investigation for "potential violations" of laws prohibiting evidence tampering and perjury. This on top of the lawsuit by Associated Press he faces over the Obama Hope poster that Fairey eventually admitted was adapted from an AP photo. Lawyer and blogger Ben Sheffner, who parses the newly unsealed papers, calls them "the most fascinating brief I've read in a long time" in a Twitter tweet.
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