Paul Magliocchetti, Star Lobbyist, Closes Up Shop As Criminal Inquiry Heats Up

Paul Magliocchetti, Star Lobbyist, Closes Up Shop As Criminal Inquiry Heats Up

WASHINGTON -- For most of the last three decades, the lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti might have been mistaken for an owner of the Alpine, a wood-paneled Italian restaurant across the Potomac River from Washington where he routinely presided over boisterous tables of lawmakers and their staff members.

"Get me some oysters! Get me some steamed crabs! Get me a rack of lamb!" Mr. Magliocchetti would tell the cooks, strolling into the kitchen. "Every day a different thing," the chef and owner Ermanno Tonizzo recalled fondly. "I don't think he has ever seen the menu."

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