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Committee on Financial Services 
Ranking Democratic Member 
Subcommittee on Housing 
& Insurance Congress of the United States 
House of Representatives 
Michael E. Capuano 
Roxbury Community College 
Campus Library 
Room 211 
Committee on Transportation & 
Infrastructure 
Committee on Ethics 
December 11, 201 7 
The Honorable Ajit Pai 
Chairman 
445 l21h Street, SW 
Washington, DC 20554 
Dear Chairman Pai: 
'7th District, Massachusetts 
I write to you today regarding the "Restoring Internet Freedom" item, WC Docket Number 17-
108, on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) December open meeting agenda. I 
strongly urge you to delay consideration of this item and begin an investigation into reports of 
fake comments being submitted that support repeal of net neutrality. 
There have been widespread reports of fraudulent comments being submitted to the FCC on this 
matter. I am absolutely certain that these reports are accurate and that fake comments have been 
submitted to the FCC. Late last week, television station WFXT Boston 25 (a Fox affiliate) 
informed me that my own wife, Barbara Capuano, had apparently submitted a public comment in 
the net neutrality docket. See your own website, Comment ID# 19108102994713618. I am 
100% positive that my wife did not submit these comments (and, in fact, disagrees with the 
position stated) so I can attest that there is fraud occurring with the submissions. 
Net neutrality is an important issue to many of us and it is simply not responsible to rush a vote 
on December 14th when there is so much concern over the submission of fake comments. If it 
happened to the wife of a Congressman, how many other comments were submitted under fake 
names? I am urging you to delay the vote and conduct an investigation into how widespread this 
issue is with the FCC's comment system. I look forward to hearing back from you before the 
14th on this matter. 
Sincerely, 
~~fC~ 
Member of Congress 
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