ShoreBank’s Tangled Web
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593343,00.html
Indeed, ShoreBank obtained $35 million in federal stimulus funds, then used Rep. Schakowsky, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), and former president Bill Clinton to press Illinois authorities for another $100 million. Finally, unable to raise the necessary capital from a near-bankrupt state, ShoreBank was able to obtain apparently politically-brokered favors from Wall Street, with personal help from Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2010/05/25/rep-schakowsky-and-shorebank-new-evidence-of-conflict-of-interest/