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Obama's Sunrise Equities Office
BARACK OBAMA WITH SALMAN IBRAHIM,
SUNRISE EQUITIES CEO, FBI FUGITIVE
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EXCLUSIVE: Never-before published photo of Barack Obama with his good friend and benefactor Salman Ibrahim, in the offices of the infamous Sunrise Equities, Chicago. Ibrahim is wanted by the FBI in connection with the 2008 Sunrise Equities scam in Chicago, in which investors were ripped off for a total of approximately $80 million.
Here, Obama cuts the ribbon at a ceremony in which Sunrise Equities donated office space to Obama when he was running for US Senate in 2004.
Sunrise Equities shut down in August, 2008 when its CEO, Salman Ibrahim, and other top officers vanished. The money seems to have gone with them. The Illinois Secretary of State and the FBI are investigating the scandal.
About 150 investors, mostly Muslim, learned in August that they had lost all of their savings to the Sunrise Equities fraud. Sunrise Equities, a shariah-compliant investment firm, targeted investors who were mostly Pakistani Muslim immigrants. Many the victims took out home-equity loans to make ends meet.
See "OBAMA CONNECTED TO SUNRISE EQUITIES, PART ONE"
And PART TWO
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$50,000 to $100,000
Wendy Abrams philanthropist Michael Alter president, Alter Group Sheldon Baskin real estate investor, Metroplex Michael Bauer state lobbyist and gay activist Jatinder Bedi editor, Indian Reporter Les Bond president, Columbia Capital Marty Castro attorney, vice-president of external affairs, Aetna Robert Clifford personal injury attorney Tom Cole attorney, Sidley Austin Kevin Conway attorney, Conway & Conway Mark Cozzi president, Lincoln Park Capital Greg Dingens senior business manager, Phoenix Realty & Investment Justin Douglas Stanley Energy/Douglas Ventures Mark Erwin trader, Chicago Futures Group Mickey and Judy Gaynor retired attorney; homemaker Tom Gearen attorney Howard Gottlieb investor, Glen Eagle Partners Kenneth Griffin president and CEO, Citadel Investment Group Brandy Isaac fundraiser and project manager, First United Methodist Church David Jacobson attorney, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Patricia Jones Blessman psychologist Marilyn Katz principal, MK Communications Alan King attorney, Drinker Biddle Jack Levin attorney, Kirkland & Ellis Larry Levy restaurateur, founder of Levy Organization Lewis Manilow investor Judd Miner attorney, Miner Barnhill & Galland, Obama's former employer Marty Nesbitt chairman and CEO, Parking Spot Quintin Primo president, Capri Capital Partners Sunil Puri developer and CEO, First Rockford Group Michael Sachs chairman, Grosvenor Capital Management John Schmidt attorney, Mayer Brown, former associate U.S. attorney general Tariq Siddiqui real estate developer Balvinder Singh owner, A-One Carpets Amy Singh attorney Leo Smith investor and partner, Neo Phonetics David Solow attorney, Neal Gerber & Eisenberg Robert Weissbourd real estate developer and principal, RW Ventures Harvey Wineberg accountant Matt Yale director of public affairs, Ariel Investments