An October 2008 Securities Exchange Commission filing identifies Ari Emanuel, who is the model for the fictional Ari Gold on the HBO series “Entourage” as one of the major stockholders in the company.
The filing also shows that TableMAX has a consulting agreement with Ari Emanuel in exchange for common stock.
~~~~Another power hungry Chicago thug .. apparently runs in the family.
"Even as Mr. Wiatt opted out, Mr. Emanuel’s temper flared in negotiations with NBC over the drama “Medium,” which was created by one of his clients, Glenn Gordon Caron.
The spat, which broke out when the network balked at financial terms, concluded with “Medium” moving to CBS and Mr. Emanuel threatening Marc Graboff, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, with personal ruin, according to three people with knowledge of the incident. Mr. Graboff declined to comment; an Emanuel colleague insisted the threats were not personal.
“Nobody wants to be on the wrong side of Ari Emanuel, especially now that his brother is running the White House,” said one television executive, who asked for anonymity to preserve harmony with him."
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Let's see if Politico, WashPost, NYTimes or any other lamestream covers this slot machine deal. Right ..
Americans should be worried that Rahm Emanuel, who came out of the world of dirty Chicago politics, is President Obama’s right hand man in the White House. Emanuel is ”no exception to the Chicago way,” said Glenn Beck. “He was known as the bag man in the Clinton White House. Emanuel was on Goldman Sachs' payroll while working for Clinton.[...] Now, in the Obama administration, his strong-arm tactics are helping make all of Obama’s dreams come true. It is scary but true.”
Democratic pollster and Fox News contributor Pat Caddell shed some light on some of Emanuel’s past shady financial dealings.
After Emanuel left the Clinton White House, Clinton appointed him to the board of Freddie Mac, the public-private hybrid secondary mortgage market (which caused the economic meltdown); Rahm also worked in the Chicago office of Wasserstein Perella, a major Wall Street financial firm. “He then made $16 million in less than two years,” Caddell said.
This is in addition to the $250,000 Emanuel ripped off at financially troubled Freddie Mac, which was plagued by scandals involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities while he was on its board. ”He was there when they were cooking the books,” Caddell said.
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REFERENCE After Mr. Emanuel was named Obama's Chief of Staff, the Obama White House denied a Chicago Tribune reporter's Freedom of Information Act request for information on his Freddie Mac activities: “The Obama administration rejected a Tribune request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel’s time as a director.
The documents, obtained for his investigation, were “commercial information” exempt from disclosure, according to a lawyer for the Federal Housing Finance Agency.” However, at the time of the request Freddie Mac was no longer a “commercial” enterprise, having been taken over by the government in September 2008.
According to ABC News, the Justice Department is in possession of these records, yet no indictments have been forthcoming: “Freddie Mac records have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department as part of its investigation of the suspect accounting procedures” they reported in November 2008.