Bloomberg's longtime, live-in girlfriend, Diana Taylor, sits on the board of Brookfield Properties, which owns the park that Wall Street protesters are occupying.
Posted on 10/17/2011 11:33:09 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
GET FORMER ELECTED OFFICIALS & FAMILY MEMBERS OUT OF THE LOBBYING BUSINESS!!!
August 25, 2008
Obama Aides Defend Bank’s Pay to Biden Son
During the years that Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. was helping the credit card industry win passage of a law making it harder for consumers to file for bankruptcy protection, his son had a consulting agreement that lasted five years with one of the largest companies pushing for the changes, aides to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign acknowledged Sunday.
Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, received consulting fees from the MBNA Corporation from 2001 to 2005 for work on online banking issues. Aides to Mr. Obama, who chose Mr. Biden as his vice-presidential running mate on Saturday, would not say how much the younger Mr. Biden, who works as both a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, had received, though a company official had once described him as having a $100,000 a year retainer. But Obama aides said he had never lobbied for MBNA and that there was nothing improper about the payments.
Campaign officials acknowledged that the connection between the Bidens and MBNA, the enormous financial services company then based in their home state of Delaware, was one of the most sensitive issues they examined while vetting the senator for a spot on the ticket.
The financial services industry began seeking relief from Congress in the mid-1990s from an increase in bankruptcies that was cutting into its profits. Its initial support came from Republican lawmakers, who repeatedly introduced bills to make it more difficult for consumers to erase their debts. During that time, executives at MBNA, which was bought in 2006 by Bank of America, began donating heavily to both major political parties and many national politicians, including Mr. Biden.
In late 1996, the company hired the younger of Mr. Biden’s two sons, Robert Hunter Biden, known as Hunter, who had just graduated from Yale Law School, as a lawyer. The company promoted Mr. Biden to senior vice president by early 1998. And after the younger Mr. Biden worked at the Commerce Department on electronic commerce issues from 1998 to 2001, MBNA hired him back on a monthly consulting contract to advise it on such issues, aides said.
Consumer advocates say that Senator Biden was one of the first Democratic leaders to support the bankruptcy bill, and he voted for it four times — in 1998, 2000, 2001 and in March 2005, when its final version passed the Senate by a vote of 74 to 25.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25biden.html?pagewanted=print
Can you say Coup attempt and revolution in America if it is tried by him and his communist/progressive allies in the media and around the nation?
If he loses election the only hope for America not going into a Revolution is him thinking he will see America collapse completely under Cain or whomever the new Republican President is , then he comes in to pick up the Marxist pieces in 4 years in 2016 since we all know this person will be in the streets organizing - right?
I am still thinking he attempts the coup right after the election. If so life is about to get ugly and Marxist free soon afterward.
In Politics just Follow the Money .
Company that Owns Zuccotti Park Received Green Loan Guarantee from Obama Admin (10/9/2011)
Isn’t it curious that such a prosperous company would need loan guarantees from a bankrupt government? I guess not, when you realize that Joe Biden’s son is a partner in the lobbying firm Brookfield employed.
There’s much more to the story. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it would be up to the property owners to evict the filth from the park. His girlfriend is on the company’s board of directors, so perhaps he could have a word with her.
Something stinks, and it isn’t just the unwashed protesters.
love this.
I dunno about a coup after the election, but I fully expect these “students” to make their presences felt at polling places at the appropriate time.
Bloomberg's longtime, live-in girlfriend, Diana Taylor, sits on the board of Brookfield Properties, which owns the park that Wall Street protesters are occupying.
>Obama needed a place for violence to erupt. This is his 2012 platform. He’s desperate.<
And there you have it
>I know it’s the ‘White House Insider’ stuff....but still an interestig read:<
insider has been on the money for weeks / months.
I am still thinking he attempts the coup right after the election. If so life is about to get ugly and Marxist free soon afterward.
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He could try that before the elections....and then they will be postponed.....creating a Constitutional crisis.
Seriously.....I wouldn’t put it past him as a couple of Democrats have been ‘on board’ with this idea. (IOW....to plant the seed.)
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