Posted on 09/15/2014 7:40:21 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Chicago
Big profit for Pritzkers on costly Chicago FBI deal Sun, 09/14/2014 - 3:30pm Better Government Association @bettergov | Email
A deal involving the federal government’s most expensive lease in Chicago produced millions of dollars in profits for a development group that included Penny Pritzker, a top campaign fund-raiser for President Barack Obama who is now his commerce secretary, a Chicago Sun-Times / Better Government Association investigation has found.
The developers also included Jack Higgins, a friend and political backer of former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Over the 14-year term of the lease, the government will pay $280 million in rent and operating expenses for the Near West Side property, which houses the FBI’s Chicago headquarters.
That’s more than double what it cost to build the complex at 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd., which opened in 2006, records show.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.suntimes.com ...
Obama’s ‘NSA watchdog’ funded research targeting reporters
By Janet on February 5, 2014
We are learning that Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, who recently was named to a new presidential panel to review the government’s handling of “big data” stored at National Security Agency databases, has a history with investigating people. And she is a primary funder of the radical Media Matters for America activist group, which previously declared “war”on Fox News and reportedly sought to look into the personal lives of journalists.
Back in 2012, Media Matters found itself in hot water after the Daily Caller exposed the group’s purported illicit tactics, including compiling a de facto enemies list and reportedly seeking to investigate reporters and news personalities.
The Daily Caller reported it obtained internal memos from Media Matters that revealed the group employed an “opposition research team” to “target its political enemies.”
Reported the Daily Caller: “Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites, conservative think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific Fox News Channel and News Corporation employees.”
One memo reportedly stated Media Matters investigations “will focus on the backgrounds, connections, operations and political and financial activities of the individuals.”
http://omnitalk.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/obamas-nsa-watchdog-funded-research-targeting-reporters/
While America sleeps......we have a corrupt presidency, a corrupt DOJ, a corrupt IRS, a corrupt State Dep’t. and an FBI in a corrupt real estate deal, couple that with corrupt state and local governments, etc........OY VEY!!
I understand GSA handles all government properties - both purchased and leased. Recalling some matters from the sixties, they have a long history of playing favorites.
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