Original sentence: A BBC documentary states that Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected.Details of the matter came to light when retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testified before a Congressional committee that a group of men had attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful.General Butler stated that the American Liberty League was the primary means of funding the plot
Edited sentence: A BBC documentary claims Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the 41st and 43rd US Presidents respectively, was also connected.General Butler claimed that the American Liberty League was the primary means of funding the plot.Purported details of the matter came to light when retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testified before a Congressional committee that a group of men had attempted to recruit him to serve as the leader of a plot and to assume and wield power once the coup was successful