Three million dollars was recently stolen from the City Treasurer’s Office, ... ...

Three million dollars was recently stolen from the City Treasurer’s Office, and, from what we know so far, we can conclude that some members of the mayor’s staff are suspects. The suspects are all former employees of the City Treasurer’s Office, and the mayor’s staff includes former employees of that office. The flawed nature of the argument above can most effectively be demonstrated by noting that, by parallel reasoning, we could conclude that
(A) some painters are sculptors since some sculptors are famous and some painters are famous
(B) ...
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*This question is included in Oct 2012 LSAT (PT67): Logical Reasoning A

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