Posted on 09/25/2009 11:21:32 AM PDT by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
1) Circa 1994/1995, Bill Ayers ghostwrites Dreams from My Father.
2) Barack Hussein Obama Jr thereby agrees to the publication of a fictional account of his own life, which includes a tale of a bogus Caucasian girlfriend who is in fact based on William Ayers's memories of his deceased lover, Diana Oughton.
3) Diana Oughton has perished in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion of 1970, and Ayers has gone on to marry Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] during his period in hiding.
4) Bernadine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] has received her JD in 1967, from the University of Chicago Law School, but does not return to gainful employment until circa 1984, when she finds work at Sidley-Austin, LLP, of Chicago.
5) During her time at Sidley-Austin, Bernadine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] works with a young intern and lawyer named Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
6) Since 1965, Newton Minow has been a partner & senior counsel at Sidley-Austin.
7) Circa 1987/1988, Newton Minow's daughter, Martha, is instrumental [along with Ayers and Khalid Al-Mansour] in getting Barack Hussein Obama Jr admitted to Harvard Law School.
8) Now fast forward to 2007 & 2008 & 2009, when Goldman Sachs bets its portfolio of Liar Loans against the short-traders then coordinates the Obama campaign from within the Bush Treasury Department and sabotages the McCain campaign from within the Bush Treasury Department and hoodwinks George Bush into signing the TARP and receives tens of billions of dollars stolen from the American taxpayer and laundered through AIG and emerges from the collapse of the markets as the dominant force in NYSE program trading and transforms those tens of billions of dollars [stolen from the American taxpayer] into record bonus payouts in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
9) In July of 2009, Matt Taibbi publishes a blistering exposé of Goldman Sachs.
10) Nell Minow, daughter of Newton and sister of Martha, is immediately dispatched to spearhead the campaign to destroy Matt Taibbi.
11) Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs, along with subprime lender Credit Suisse, has come to dominate a particularly odious form of chicanery known as DARK POOL TRADING.
12) In turn, Credit Suisse's Steven Koch has been a major donor to the Obama campaign, leading bundling efforts which run from at least March of 2007 all the way through to December 26, 2008 [at which time he is joined by Goldman Sachs's Bruce A. Heyman and Sidley-Austin's John Levi].
13) In the meantime, Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] has found work as an Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
14) And in 1998, Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] delivers the paper "Another Kind of Innocence: Children and the Death Penalty" at the National Conference on the Death Penalty and the Wrongfully Convicted, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL.
15) But Credit Suisse's Steven Koch sits on the Advisory Board of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, is on the Honor Roll of Non-Alumni Donors of the Friends of Northwestern University School of Law, and is a member of the John Henry Wigmore Club of Donors to the Northwestern University School of Law.
16) And Steven Koch serves as a member of the Law School Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School, which has employed Barack Hussein Obama Jr as an untenured lecturer.
17) And finally, Steven Koch has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Francis W Parker School, while William Ayers, on the other hand, is a Consulting Editor of Francis W Parker's Schools Journal, he has published the paper, A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire: Teaching Toward Transformation, in Vol. 3, No. 2 of Schools Journal, and his Curriculum Vitae indicates the following presentations: The Art of the Personal Essay: Writing Our Lives Francis Parker School, Chicago, IL, October 19, 2004; Writing Our Lives, Francis W. Parker School, April 19, 2004; Fugitive Days - Then and Now, Francis W. Parker School, April 5, 2004; and Hidden Questions, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois, December 1, 2000.
That’s what I am thinking! Last thing I expected and guess she didn’t want to post it here or have someone do it. Now I want to get to the bottom of everything after her post. I posted the Sheik’s comments on that thread at DfS as an Update and will keep updating after her comments came in. A nerve was certainly hit.
Thanks for the link. I will go post another Update!
BTW: Excellent blog; I bookmarked it.
Don’t want you to miss the Saturday night excitement!
Start at Phi Kap Mom’s post.
Thanks for the ping - and pinging sissy!
Thanks!
Over target...getting flack!
B T T T
Very interesting!
Why Does Everyone Keep Picking On Us?
This blog entry references a Bloomberg story I can’t link to about Sergey Aleynikov, 39, the former Goldman computer programmer who was arrested on theft charges July 3, 2009.
2 interesting comments to this blog entry:
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July 10th, 2009 at 7:09 am Reply to this comment
Robert Sneddon
Goldman Sachs runs the computerised “post office” for the new York Stock Exchange, controlling the servers and routers on which they can run their own programs if they so wish. They have absolute access to all the data that flows between traders including the computer-mediated bids and trade executions.
They can examine all this financial data, if they care to look—it’s not encrypted, believe it or not, just plain text—and jump in a few milliseconds before a legitimate trade is executed to buy or sell themselves, or delay a given trade by a few tens of milliseconds (network latency can be tuned by the operators) to give their sniper-programs a chance to get a shot in somewhere else. It’s automated insider-trading, if you like.
Whether they were actually doing this is another matter, but in the Bad Times at the end of last year the financial returns of such an operation could well have meant the difference between survival and collapse for Goldman Sachs.
The big question is can the US Government afford to investigate this rigorously? The possible loss of confidence in NYSE’s core legitimacy as a level playing field for investors is potentially devastating.
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July 10th, 2009 at 7:20 am Reply to this comment
The Grand Panjandrum
Front running is not illegal but when you clients find out you’ve been doing it to them, they can get irritated. Look for large institutional investor clients of GS to start asking questions. Zero hedge has this clip of Weil talking about his article in Bloomberg. Well worth the time to watch it.
As all these pieces come together you can see why Taibbi’s RS piece is so important and should be read by anyone who gives a shit about this country’s financial markets.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=23850
Looks like the flack is getting thicker......
I started a separate thread on this because there was too much info to post here.
WAKING UP TO DISCOVER THE MORTGAGE MARKET WAS A GIANT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2349207/posts
LOL
GOLDMAN BIG DEFENDS $12.9B PAID BY AIG
By KAJA WHITEHOUSE, NY POST, March 21, 2009
Despite catching flack for having accepted $12.9 billion in taxpayer funds as payment for bets it made with beleaguered insurance giant American International Group, officials at Goldman Sachs were unapologetic, saying the payday was strictly business and aboveboard.
"We don't think we did anything wrong," Goldman's Chief Financial Officer David Viniar said in a conference call with reporters. "We had commercial terms. It is our responsibility to our shareholders to make sure that we are protecting ourselves. That's why we enter into these contracts."
Goldman set up the call to "clarify certain misperceptions in the press" around the bank's vulnerability to an AIG collapse. The Wall Street bank was largely successful in soothing those concerns, as Viniar explained how, despite a $20 billion derivative exposure to AIG as early as September, Goldman had set things up so that it could walk away largely unscathed had AIG gone bust.
Since July 2007, Goldman Sachs has spent around $100 million hedging against the risk of default in its AIG derivatives, said Goldman spokesman Lucas van Praag. But in soothing concerns over its exposure to AIG, Goldman officials opened another can of worms namely, why the firm was made whole on its bets, given AIG's troubled financial health and given that Goldman was so well-protected against default.
AIG has come under fire amid revelations that $90 billion of the government funds it received were funneled to its trading counterparties, whose contracts were largely bought out at face value. Goldman was the largest single beneficiary of the funds.
"I think the question is why did the Treasury not demand that Goldman Sachs and AIG negotiate down the collateral agreements on CDS?" said James Kaufman, a former Wall Street banker with Lazard Freres, referring to derivatives known as credit-default swaps. "If we had taken a discount, then we would have taken a loss to Goldman Sachs, and, frankly, as I'm sure you know, we also have taxpayer money at Goldman Sachs," Viniar said. Goldman got $10 billion as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Viniar also downplayed the notion that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein had the ear of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who was Blankfein's predecessor at Goldman.
Even before AIG became a government-owned enterprise, Goldman had already persuaded the company to pay it $7.5 billion in cash collateral as a result of the waning value of the assets tied to its derivative contracts.
After AIG was bailed out, Goldman received another $2.5 billion in cash collateral, plus $5.6 billion in payments made to unwind its contracts with AIG. Goldman said its remaining derivative exposure to AIG sits at around $7 billion, to which it's received $4.4 billion in collateral.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/seven/03212009/business/goldman_big_defends_12_9b_paid_by_aig_160547.htm
Goldman Sachs always has clout in Washington, as evidenced by the firm’s alumni serving as Treasury secretaries under both Presidents Bush and Clinton. Today, in these tumultuous times of bailouts and meltdowns when the investment banking leviathan needs Washington more than ever before, Goldman can leverage its most valuable asset w/ White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Goldman Sachs is the giant of Wall Street, and more than any other investment bank, Goldman is surviving the current financial storm. Traditionally a Democratic booster, and one of Barack Obama’s top sources of funds in this past election, Goldman has always had some particularly strong allies within government.
Emanuel is one such ally.
An interesting early chapter in the Goldman-Emanuel relationship took place in the setting of Bill Clinton’s campaign for the White House in 1992. Clinton hired Emanuel as his chief fundraiser. At the same time, however, Emanuel was on the payroll of Goldman Sachs, receiving $3,000 per month from the firm to “introduce us to people,” in the words of one Goldman partner at the time. This is certainly a noteworthy relationship, but it’s one that has almost entirely escaped scrutiny. (snip)
In his four terms in Congress, Emanuel has raised $74,750 from Goldman, making the firm his number four source of funds.
Goldman has helped Emanuel. How has Emanuel helped Goldman? The most obvious answer, as mentioned in this column two weeks ago, is in Emanuel’s lead role in shepherding the “$700 billion” bailout—first proposed by former a Goldman CEO, Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson—through the skeptical House.
Of course, back in the Clinton days, Goldman benefited from NAFTA and the bailout of the Mexican currency, with Emanuel pushing NAFTA through Congress, and Rubin hammering out the peso bailout.
Did Goldman improperly funnel money to the Clinton campaign by subsidizing Emanuel’s salary in 1992? Did Goldman’s help to Clinton spur the Democratic president to push NAFTA and the Mexican bailout? The answers to these questions are opaque, and with Emanuel burrowed deep within the Obama White House, the continued relationship between Goldman Sachs and Obama’s right hand man won’t be easy to follow.
Watch which regulations of Wall Street Obama fights for. Watch where the bailout money goes. And don’t be surprised Goldman soon sitting pretty once again.
SOURCE http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/TimothyCarney/ Goldman_Sach_Will_Be_Sitting_Pretty_With_Emanuel_in_the_Obama_White_House_112108.html
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"The Plan, Big Ideas for America" by Rahm Emanuel
FR Posted August 17, 2009 by HollyB
Page 58 Citizen service: “Every citizen needs to understand and accept the essence of the American bargain: Each of us has to do his or her part. While the rights of citizenship are explicit in our constitution, the implicit responsibilities are every bit as crucial. All Americans between ages of 18-25 will be asked to serve their country by going through 3 months of basic training, civil defense preparation, and community service. The nation will enlist them for 3 months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for basic civil defense training in their state or community.” Obama:” We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded”.
“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year”.
HR 1388 Serve America Act will call on citizens of all ages to serve”
For more information on HR1388 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1388
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Dual citizen Rahm Emanuel surely got the top White House job as Obama’s COS based on his training on how to organize a “Civilian Security Force” (Candidate Obama campaigned on installing a “Civilian Security Force” on US soil).
Dual citizen Rham Emanuel has been trained to organize a civilian security force as a volunteer for “Sar’el”——the three-week Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program to train civilians. Looking at ACORN’s activities, and the BILLIONS Obama has given them, ACORN is primed for (and is already acting as) a “Civilian Security Force.”
BACKSTORY---ONE RAHM VERSION Circa 1991 Rahm Emmanuel volunteered in a program for civilian service in the IDF, and worked on brake components for APC’s and tanks in an IDF motor pool. He is lacking part of a finger and for many years went around claiming that he’d lost it in actions against the enemy in a tank. Now if Rahm fought in the military of foreign government, that would negate his American citizenship (US citizens forfeit their citizenship when they serve in the military of a foreign government).
SECOND RAHM VERSION Rahm volunteered for “Sar’el”——a three-week Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) training program (like US boot camp) where civilians are trained to assist the Israeli military. Civilians like Rahm lived on an IDF military base to get the proper training. A civilian volunteer, Rahm assisted the IDF during the 1991 Gulf War, repairing truck brakes in one of Israel’s northern bases. Rahm's father was an Israeli who was part of the underground resistance movement under the British Mandate.
FRIGHTENING STATEMENT Obama has stated that Rahm tells him "everything he needs to know about Israel."
Rahm Emanuel today is a dual Israeli-American citizen. It is not clear whether a dual citizen is permitted to serve in a high level US govt job that makes policy decisions for Americans.
Liz: was just going to post that piece on Emmanuel-— with these:
Yesterday I noted that Rahm Emanuel had said that Obama saw the AIG fiasco as a “big distraction” from efforts to fix the economy. Later in the day, Obama walked that back, asserting that the public was right to be “angry” about the whole mess and right to find it “consuming.”
Today, another senior Obama adviser, David Axelrod, is throwing in his lot with Rahm and the AIG-isn’t-a-huge-deal camp:
“People are not sitting around their kitchen tables thinking about AIG,” Axelrod said. “They are thinking about their own jobs.”
So are people upset about this, or aren’t they? Actually, people are thinking about the AIG disaster. Yesterday’s Gallup poll found that a big majority is very upset about it. Only 11% said they are “not particularly bothered” by it.
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/economy/axelrod-people-dont-care-about-aig-mess/
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[NOTE BELOW: Commonwealth Edison - Thomas Ayers
nvestment Banking »
Rahm Emanuel, Former Investment Banker
November 7, 2008, 11:08 am
Rahm Emanuel
President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is already widely known in the halls of Washington for serving as an adviser to President Clinton, and most recently as a congressman from Illinois. But in between those two roles, Mr. Emanuel made millions of dollars on Wall Street as an investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, as the boutique firm was known at the time.
Despite having little experience or education in finance, Mr. Emanuel became a managing director at the firm’s Chicago office in 1999, helping to bring in business and seal deals.
According to a 2003 article in The Chicago Tribune, Mr. Emanuel was brought in by one of the firm’s founders, Bruce Wasserstein, who was one of President Clinton’s most active fund-raisers on Wall Street and is now the head of Lazard.
“Rahm did a great job for our firm,” Mr. Wasserstein told DealBook. “When Rahm worked with us at Wasserstein Perella, he showed a great ability to reconcile divergent interests for a constructive outcome.”
In his two-and-a-half-year stint as a banker, Mr. Emanuel — who once trained as a ballet dancer and was briefly a civilian volunteer on an Israeli military base — made $16.2 million, according to Congressional disclosures.
Mr. Emanuel worked on eight deals while at Wasserstein Perella, the two biggest of which involved politically connected utilities, The Tribune reported.
In one deal, he advised Commonwealth Edison, the power producer, in its $8.2 billion acquisition of Pennsylvania-based Peco Energy. In the other, he helped GTCR Golder Rauner, a Chicago-based venture capital and private equity firm, in its purchase of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC Communications, now AT&T.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/rahm-emanuel-former-investment-banker/
RAHM WAS CLINTON ADVISOR, WALL STREET MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, A CONGRESSMAN, WHITE HOUSE COS
AND (GASP) RAHM WAS NOT EVEN VOTED "MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED."
TIMELINE
1992 Emanuel's knowledge of the top donors in the country, and his rapport with potential donors within the Jewish community helped Clinton amass a then-unheard-of sum of $72 million which nailed his victory.
1993 Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton from 1993 to 1998. Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy. He was a leading strategist in the unsuccessful White House efforts to institute universal healthcare and many other Clinton initiatives.
1993 One of Rahm's proudest moments was an event that touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Emanuel directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat."
1998 While official Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a senior political aide to Pres Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview, The New York Times’s Michael Luo writes.
John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel. “I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank, told The Times. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.” And better than Mr. Emanuel could have imagined as well.
Over the course of a three-hour-plus dinner, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Emanuel discussed how they might work together. Shortly afterward, Mr. Emanuel accepted an offer, nudging him down what has by now become a well-trodden gilded path out of politics and into the lucrative world of business.
1998 Rahm "The Perfect" resigned his position as an advisor to Bill Clinton, to become a Wall Street investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, (now Dresdner Kleinwort), where he worked until 2002.
1999 Just like that (snaps fingers)----in 1999, Rahm became managing director at their Chicago office. According to Congressional disclosures, Emanuel made $16.2 million in his 2 1/2 year stint as a Wasserstein Perella banker AND he probably paid all his taxes.
Amazingly, Rahm "The Perfect" became a multi-millioniare overnight----and he wasn't even voted "Most Likely To Succeed."
At Wasserstein Perella, Rahm worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC.
2002 Rahm "The Perfect" then ran for Congress (successfully, OF COURSE). Luckily (/snic) members of the securities and investment industry became Rahm's biggest backers, donating more than $1.5M up to 2002, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
2006 Rahm also leaned heavily upon the financial industry as 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair. Financial industry donors contributed more than $5.8M to the Dem committee (behind only retirees).
Remember, the point of Obama bringing Rahm in was so that "tolerant and compassionate bi-partisan Rahm" could work constructively w/ Congress to pass an ambitious agenda.......
Here's tolerant Rahm expressing his feelings for America on inauguration day.
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SURPRISE Brother Zeke is JUST as PERFECT
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, was tapped as White House health care policy advisor (thank God Rahm will "help" Ezekiel handle Medicare/Aid billions)
Chicago Sun Times | Feb. 14th | Lynn Sweet
FR Posted on 02/15/2009 by william1970
Rahm's brother, Dr. Emanuel, has received numerous awards....election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science and the Association of American Physicians. Hippocrates Magazine selected him as Doctor of the Year in Ethics.....the AMA-Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and a Fulbright Scholarship (which he declined). Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), and on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School.
OMG---would you believe there's ANOTHER perfect Emanuel brother.....in Hollywood?
true; ballerinas don’t have the temperament for such nastiness; hurt’s their little feelings
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Note below: Rahm Emmanual, Board of Freddie Mac; Todd Williams, Goldman Sachs & Fannie Mae; Steve Koch, Credit Suisse; Henry Paulson, Treasury, Goldman Sachs
WHY THE DEMOCRATS HAVEN’T BEEN MORE HELPFUL IN THE FISCAL CRISIS
The Democrats seem slightly befuddled how to react to the current fiscal crisis. One reason is that they helped to cause it. Starting with the Clinton administration, there was a conscious effort by Democrats to cozy up to Wall Street and to this day Barack Obama is being advised by those with deep involvement in the policies and practices that led to the current disaster. You can’t well complain about Bush’s Treasury Secretary having been with Goldman Sachs, when Clinton’s was as well and now the guy has Obama’s ear. And during the period liberals have largely looked the other way as the economic principles of the New Deal, Fair Deal and Great Society were steadily unraveled.
The Prowler, American Spectator - When President George W. Bush nominated Henry Paulson to serve as Treasury Secretary, Republicans raised a red flag that Paulson, who, along with his wife, has strong ties to the Democrat party, would not be an honest broker with Republicans.
That seems to have been borne out, with sources inside of Treasury reporting that Paulson briefed Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign advisers on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout plan before offering such a briefing to the McCain campaign.
In fact, the McCain campaign had sought a similar briefing several days ago as word spread that a bailout plan was to be unveiled and had been turned down by Paulson’s senior staff.
The next question is: Why was the Obama campaign so keen on getting advanced word about the bailout?
“They have a huge problem with the mortgage and housing market story, and everyone is missing it,” says a Republican political media consultant with ties to the Obama campaign due to the bipartisan nature of the firm he does work with.
“You look at Obama’s economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton — and I mean a ton — of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage debacle.”
Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.
“How can Obama go out with a straight face and saw it was Republicans who made this mess, when it is his key advisers who ran the agencies that made the big mess what it is?” says a Democrat House member who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “It’s his people who are responsible for what may well be the single largest government bailout in history. And every single one of them made millions off the collapse that are lining Obama’s campaign coffers. . .
It isn’t just Fannie Mae where Obama has a problem. Another close political adviser, in fact the one man responsible for rallying support for Obama early on among Congressional Democrats, is Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who served on the Board of Directors for Freddie Mac after leaving the Clinton White House. . .
Emanuel claimed to be neutral in the primary race between the wife of his old boss and his longtime Chicago acquaintance, Obama. But the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, who would be first in line for the vacated Senate seat of Obama should he win the presidency, quickly dumped Clinton when it was clear Obama had a head of steam for the nomination. . .
Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.
Protein Wisdom - [In a] May 6th speech, [Obama] said that we “need a government that stands up for families who are being tricked out of their homes by Wall Street predators.” What Obama failed to mention was that by the end of March 2008, he had taken $1,180,103 from people and groups associated with the top ten issuers of subprime loans. . . Indeed, Swiss banking giant UBS, which has written off more debt from the subprime crisis than any other bank, has contributed $363,257 not included in that total. . .
Obama failed to mention that his fundraising bundlers include: Louis Susman, Michael Froman and J. Michael Schell of Citigroup; Steve Koch of Credit Suisse; Bruce Hayman, David Heller, Eric Schwartz, and Todd Williams of Goldman Sachs; Mark Gilbert, Christine Forester, John Rhea, Nadja Fidelia, and Theodore Janulis of Lehman; and Robert Wolf of UBS Americas. These folks raised an additional $1,800,000 for Obama. . .
http://prorev.com/2008/09/why-democrats-havent-been-more-helpful.html
Something else going on concerning Goldman-Sachs in July 2007 :
JUNE 2007 : (40 LETTERS THREATENING GOLDMAN SACHS ARE MAILED TO MEDIA OUTLETS AROUND THE COUNTRY --See 2008 OCTOBER SUPRISE MORTGAGE / FINANCIAL CRISIS, HANK PAULSON? ) ------“Exclusive: Teens behind terror ‘hoax,’ sez new letter” BY JOHN MARZULLI, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, August 6th 2007, 4:00 AM, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/08/06/2007-08-06_teens_behind_terror_hoax_sez_new_letter.html 414 posted on 08/06/2007 3:14:29 AM PDT by Cindy | To 413
JULY 2007 : (4-PAGE LETTER PURPORTEDLY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE 40 THREAT LETTERS AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS IS SENT TO A DAILY NEWS REPORTER; IT CLAIMS EARLIER 40 LETTERS WERE A HOAX BY 3 "MISGUIDED" TEENAGERS,--See 2008 OCTOBER SUPRISE MORTGAGE / FINANCIAL CRISIS, HANK PAULSON? ) The four-page letter, hand-printed in red ink on lined paper just like the original batch of 40 letters mailed to media outlets around the country in June, was sent to a Daily News reporter ...------“Exclusive: Teens behind terror ‘hoax,’ sez new letter” BY JOHN MARZULLI, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, August 6th 2007, 4:00 AM, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/08/06/2007-08-06_teens_behind_terror_hoax_sez_new_letter.html 414 posted on 08/06/2007 3:14:29 AM PDT by Cindy | To 413
AUGUST 5, 2007 : (NEW GOLDMAN SACHS LETTER CLAIMING EARLIER 40 LETTERS WERE A HOAX BY 3 "MISGUIDED" TEENAGERS--See 2008 OCTOBER SUPRISE MORTGAGE / FINANCIAL CRISIS, HANK PAULSON?) ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A new letter purportedly written by the author of terrorist threats against Goldman Sachs claims the whole thing was a hoax “conceived by three misguided teenagers.”
The four-page letter, hand-printed in red ink on lined paper just like the original batch of 40 letters mailed to media outlets around the country in June, was sent to a Daily News reporter last month and immediately turned over to federal investigators.
An FBI spokesman said yesterday that the new letter is still undergoing analysis at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., but it appeared to contain similarities to the original threats.
“The investigators believe the latest letter may have been written by the same person, but they’re not convinced the underlying story in the letter is the truth,” said spokesman James Margolin. The story revealed in the latest missive is nearly as bizarre as the warning sent out in the original letters.”-------“Exclusive: Teens behind terror ‘hoax,’ sez new letter” BY JOHN MARZULLI, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, August 6th 2007, 4:00 AM, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/08/06/2007-08-06_teens_behind_terror_hoax_sez_new_letter.html 414 posted on 08/06/2007 3:14:29 AM PDT by Cindy | To 413
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