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Wikipedia: Mellody Hobson is an American businesswoman who is the president of ***Ariel Investments...She is a regular contributor on financial issues on CBS This Morning...
looks who is now on the board of ***Ariel Investments:
7 Dec: Fortune: Exclusive: Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett Joins Board of Tech Company 2U
By Valentina Zarya
The former senior adviser to President Barack Obama is the newest director of 2U, a technology partner helping top universities—including Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown—bring their master’s degree programs online...
This is the third corporate board Jarrett has joined this year. In July, she became a director ride-hailing company Lyft. In March, she joined the board of ***Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based asset manager...
Last, but certainly not least, her role at Ariel Investments was a direct outcome of her close friendship with CEO John Rogers. “Ariel has been a part of my family for longer than I care to admit,” she says.
Jarrett also serves as a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation...
http://fortune.com/2017/12/07/valerie-jarrett-tech-board/
Ariel Investments: John W. Rogers, Jr,. Chairman, CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Following the election of President Barack Obama, John served as co-chair for the Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009, and more recently, he joined the Barack Obama Foundation’s Board of Directors...
https://www.arielinvestments.com/content/view/112/1062/
the Crains writer who is spreading this story:
Crains: Greg Hinz: He took a brief leave of absence from journalism to serve as press secretary for the Carter/Mondale campaign in Illinois in 1980.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/apps/pbcs.dll/personalia?ID=ghinz
11 Jul: Crains: Greg Hinz: Is today’s Trump news a smoking gun?
Is it the proverbial smoking gun, today’s news that Donald Trump Jr. eagerly sought incriminating information on Hillary Clinton, even though he knew it was coming from the Russian government and was intended to influence the U.S. presidential election?...
“If you knew what we (investigators) knew, you would want us to go full throttle with this investigation,” (Mike Quigley, D-Chicago) said. “This new development is just another indication” that the ongoing probe has legs...
Update—Quigley might have held back a tad, but one of his colleagues, Evanston Democrat Jan Schakowsky, is letting it fly. “There’s only one right answer when a foreign adversary contacts a presidential campaign to coordinate efforts to influence our election: reporting the contact to law enforcement,” she said in a statement. “Of all the wrong answers, Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to say ‘I love it’ and schedule a meeting has to rank among the worst. Whether Mr. Trump’s decision was criminal or even treasonous will be up to the special prosecutor to decide.”...
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170711/BLOGS02/170719966/is-todays-trump-news-a-smoking-gun