Barney Frank knocked on his Fannie

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank admitted he helped his ex-lover land a lucrative post with Fannie Mae in the early 1990s while the Newton Democrat was on a committee that regulated the lending giant — but he called questions of a potential ethical conflict “nonsense.”

“If it is (a conflict of interest), then much of Washington is involved (in conflicts),” Frank told the Herald last night. “It is a common thing in Washington for members of Congress to have spouses work for the federal government. There is no rule against it at all.”

Frank said he helped his former longtime companion, Herb Moses, land a job at Fannie Mae in 1991 after Moses graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from Dartmouth College. Frank said he was approached by a Fannie Mae executive and vouched for Moses, who formerly worked as an economist in the Department of Agriculture.

“(The executive) said, ‘Herb applied for a job,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, I think he’d be great. He’s an economist and he’s got an MBA,’ ” Frank said, recounting the conversation. “He was hired to an entry-level position.”

Asked if he should have disclosed his efforts to help Moses land the job at Fannie Mae, Frank said: “It was widely known. It was out there in the public. It’s nonsense.”

“Just when you think you’ve heard the worst, Democrats in Massachusetts take shameless politics to a new low,” said Tory Mazzola, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The fact that Barney Frank didn’t see this as a conflict of interest is alarming by itself, but it’s so deceitful that it really shows voters that he’s not looking out for them in Washington.”

Moses, who lived with Frank in Washington at the time, worked for Fannie until 1998, when he left the mortgage behemoth. Moses, who could not be reached for comment, and Frank split up that year.

Frank was a junior member on the House Financial Services Committee at the time he helped Moses land the job and served on the committee, which regulates lenders, for the duration of their relationship. Frank wasn’t on the subcommittee that directly dealt with Fannie and Freddie Mac legislation but he once abstained from voting on a Republican amendment to limit executive compensation at the government-backed lenders.

“I said publicly that my companion worked there and I voted present. I didn’t think I should vote on it,” the congressman said.

Frank’s assistance in helping Moses land the job was first reported in a new book about the fiscal meltdown by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times [NYT] reporter Gretchen Morgensen.

In an interview Tuesday on WBUR’s “Fresh Air,” Morgensen said Frank “was very aggressive and really tough on those who were testifying in Congress about reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac” during hearings after Moses was hired. She said Fannie Mae “rolled out the red carpet” for Moses as part of a strategy to curry favor with Frank and other members of the Financial Services Committee.

Morgensen also noted that members of the committee raked in tens of thousands in campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie execs, including Frank, who received $42,000 in contributions from 1989 through 2008.

Frank denied he turned a blind eye to Fannie until after the 2008 mortgage meltdown. He says he criticized the Bush administration’s policies on government-backed lenders in 2004 and backed legislation to deal with lending concerns in 2006 but was thwarted by the GOP-controlled Congress.

Spot on oppo research. Some of the links have gone dead (notably at his current employer Wells Fargo mortgage where his photo was posted - surprise), but you can verify Herb Moses photo by logging on to LinkedIn and searching on that name - his page will come up (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/herb-moses/11/297/785)
with a photo if you are logged in, and it is in fact the very same unmistakable face of Herb Moses in the graphic gay porn that one can find on the internet.

This was posted in a 2008 FR thread that was recently pulled, and it can lead you to make the connection between the unmistakable face of Frank’s Fannie Mae ex-spouse and the same un-photoshopped man as a raunchy gay porn star: “You are definitely on the right track since I know that Herb lives in Huntington Beach with his lover of 10 years Alvaro C. and he does (maybe did) work at WF in mortgage lending. They have both been and still are part-time male prostitutes and have also done gay porn. Real Couples #1 was their first video together. This can be verified as Jessie Foxx (Alvaro) and Mike (Herb) on the DVD cover and posting on pay VOD sites. Sometimes the light of truth uncovers a questionable past.”

Discover the link - it seems that Frank’s former Fannie Mae “spouse” went on to star in harcore gay porn:

Barney Frank’s former so-called “spouse” was a man named Herb Moses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/frank121898.htm

At the time, Herb Moses was a director for housing initiatives at Fannie Mae.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_/ai_n10104224.

Herb Moses helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1277/pub_detail.asp

Herb Moses was reportedly a mortgage expert who left Fannie Mae in 1998 to start a pottery business.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080924145932.aspx

But not before his lover Barney Frank lobbied hard to widen Fannie Mae’s ability to give mortgages to high-risk borrowers.
http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1994/b33985.arc.htm

A “Herbert M. Moses” from Washington D.C. and employed by Fannie Mae gave $1500 to Democrats in the 1990s.
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=moses%2C+herb&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=jb97b&submit=Submit

A “Herbert M. Moses” in D.C. is listed at whitepages.com
http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?extra_listing=mixed&form_mode=opt_b&post_back=1&firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=herbert&name=moses&street=&city_zip=&state_id=DC&localtime=survey.

At this whitepages page, you will find a “background records” link that allows you to buy a detailed report on that name from a list of several links.
http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/ala/newsearch?&searchState=DC&searchFName=herbert&searchLName=moses&adID=6194003754&adsource=9&TID=1&cid=background&searchtab=background

Several of those links will give a teaser list of cities where the named person presumedly has lived or lives.
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/ala/category.do?cid=5105&did=0&adID=10002101&&searchtab=people&&searchFName=Herbert&searchMName=M&searchLName=Moses&searchCity=Washington&searchState=DC&searchApproxAge=&searchStateJurisdiction=DC&searchGender=&searchZip=20009-1106&vid=cfc&searchAgentNotes=Name_ViewAll&searchPerson=001786905501

Fact check: you can type in the name of someone you know and see that the list of teaser cities is an actual list of the actual cities where the named person has lived.

For “Herbert M. Moses” of D.C., Huntington Beach, CA, is one of 6 cities listed as a current or former residence.
http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/ala/category.do?cid=5105&did=0&adID=10002101&&searchtab=people&&searchFName=Herbert&searchMName=M&searchLName=Moses&searchCity=Washington&searchState=DC&searchApproxAge=&searchStateJurisdiction=DC&searchGender=&searchZip=20009-1106&vid=cfc&searchAgentNotes=Name_ViewAll&searchPerson=001786905501

Newport Beach is 6 miles from Huntington Beach
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=newport+beach,+ca&daddr=Huntington+Beach,+CA&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=33.829785,-117.27787&sspn=1.204664,2.460938&ie=UTF8&z=13

A google search of “Herbert Moses”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Herbert+Moses%22

brings you to a photo and contact page of “Herb Moses” working at Wells Fargo in the mortgage department
https://www.wfhm.com/wfhm/herbert-moses/index.page

and Herb Moses of Wells Fargo mortgage is also listed at this website
http://workmanrealestategroup.com/lenders.html

A brand new FReeper, Stevie1958, has posted an interesting note at FR claiming that this same pictured Herb Moses has made porn films with his current long-term gay sex partner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2094109/posts?page=85#85

A google search using key terms revealed by this new FReeper, Stevie1958, does lead to webpages with photos of the same pictured man (identified above as Herb Moses) engaged in explicit homosexual sex acts.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22jessie+foxx%22+%22real+couples%22

So, it seems that Barney Frank’s former homosexual “spouse” who was a Fannie Mae executive, is now a third rate loan salesman and gay pron star. It makes Frank’s old housemate, Steve Gobie, who Frank met when he hired him as a male escort, and who ran a gay “escort” service from Frank’s D.C. home, seem pretty tame in comparison (Representative Barney Frank received a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute - Gobie).

And one more thing: Is Stevie1958 really Stephen L. Gobie?

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