Breaking: Obama Picks Jarrett As Top Advisor...

Gateway Pundit ^ | November 14, 2008 | Gateway Pundit

[Free ThinkerNY]

Breaking: Obama Advisor Jarrett Tied to Real Estate in Scandal

BREAKING: Barack Obama named his longtime friend and supporter Valerie Jarrett as his senior advisor today.
FOX News reported:

President-elect Barack Obama is naming his longtime friend and supporter Valerie Jarrett to be his White House senior adviser.

Jarrett, who hired Michelle Obama for a job in the Chicago mayor's office years ago, is one of the president-elect's closest friends and advisers. Her name has been floated for several top administration jobs. But Obama settled on the senior adviser role, said a person close to the president-elect and willing to speak only on background because the decision has not been officially announced.

A White House senior adviser can handle a range of duties. President George W. Bush's top political aide Karl Rove held the title in the current administration.

Jarrett has a background in real estate and politics in Chicago.

BREAKING: Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals
Judicial Watch reported, via LGF:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama's former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.

(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was "riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions...lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")

As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in Obama's former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered "uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage.

[libs_kma]

"Looks like another Clintonian gangster administration being assembled."

This country is looking more like a 3rd world $#!+ hole every day.

[stboz]

I cannot adequately express my horror at what has happened and continues to happen. My father-in-law was a waist gunner on B-24s. He saw what fascism brings to the world close up and personal.

Now we have a < can't use the word> for President? An individual (can't say man or "boy") who has NO CLUE of what war and freedom really, really mean....I am beyond words.

[Onelifetogive]

Breaking: Obama Picks Jarrett As Top Advisor...

Being from the South, I hope this means Dale Jarrett...

[Red6]

Fo shizzle ma nizzle.

I'm sure soon we'll have to endure hour long specials of a new version of the West Wing with a black president that cures all the worlds ills with his awesomeness. It won't matter if we sink into a great depression, everything is fine now according to the MSM and Hollywood. Just ask Chris Matthews!

[realcleanguy]

payback to the Chicago Gangsters. The Windy City Mob has taken the White House. Jesus please help us!

[KoRn]

"this guy will get away with murder."

Just like it was with Bill Clinton. He could kill an old woman on live TV using a baseball bat and the media will spin it into a positive event of some kind, or blame it on republicans. The naive sheep will swallow it hook, line, and sinker. His approval ratings will go up 15 points a week later.

[unkus]

Do these advisors have top secret clearances. Just what are these advisors told about our national security.

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Good questions.

J Edgar Hoover must look like a Mexican Jumping Bean in his

grave. He ain’t just turning.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” She’s Vernon Jordan’s niece, isn’t she?? ‘

His grand niece.
I kiddingly just posted on another thread that the way Obama’s “ Hope,” Arkansas administration was lining up-
it was only a matter of time before Vernon Jordan, Socks the cat,
Monica Lewinsky and a blue dress were part of it.
This is becoming like a really warped SNL skit.

[unkus]

My World War ll Marine uncle has his flag at half staff for at least 30 days. He is very sad.

[writer33]

Looks like another Clintonian gangster administration being assembled.

Yep, agreed.

[ArchAngel1983]

No, the Clintons’ ‘got away with murder’. Obama will invite holocausts and the MSM will continue to feel tingles up and down their legs.

God-damned he and them to hell as I suppose we who will not openly oppose such evil will eventually go.

[B Knotts]

Oh...I thought this was about Dale Jarrett. :-)

[Twinkie]

Tell your uncle that he has to buck up. My Daddy was a combat veteran of WWII (N. Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany) in special forces that were sent out to take out the big guns that were pounding Anzio Beach. - The Lord has it ALL under control, and everything that is happening has a reason. We have to trust Him and draw nigh unto him.

[unkus]

He has bucked up. And he is a devout Christian. He knows

the score. He went through 3 landings including Iwo Jima.

My dad was a combat vet in WW ll also.

I’m glad you agree with me.

[Old Seadog]

Valerie Jarret

[piasa]

APRIL 1999 : (AFTER SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY ORDERS AN AUDIT OF NCB & ITS FOUNDER KHALID BIN MAHFOUZ [FUTURE BROTHER IN LAW OF OSAMA BIN LADEN?] , THEY DISCOVER THE BANK TRANSFERRED PERSONAL FUNDS & DIVERTED $3 MILLION FROM SAUDI PENSION FUNDS TO ISLAMIC CHARITY ACCOUNTS IN NEW YORK & LONDON BANKS ------ see MOHAMMED HUSSEIN ALAMOUDI, CAPITOL TRUST BANK, VERNON JORDAN, TERROR CHARITIES ISLAMIC RELIEF & BLESSED RELIEF, ASSASSINATION PLOTS, EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK) "…."The businessmen, who are worth more than $5 billion, are paying bin Laden "protection money" to stave off attacks on their businesses in Saudi Arabia, intelligence officials said. Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest Saudi construction firm, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The money transfers were discovered in April after the royal family ordered an audit of NCB and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, U.S. officials say. Mahfouz is now under "house arrest" at a military hospital in the Saudi city of Taif, intelligence officials said. His successor, Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, also heads the Capitol Trust Bank in New York and London, which U.S. and British officials are investigating for allegedly transferring money to bin Laden. [Mohammad Hussein al-]Amoudi's Washington lawyer, Vernon Jordan, could not be reached for comment……" -------USA Today 10/28/99 Kelly
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"…. More than a year after the U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, prominent businessmen in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden, senior U.S. intelligence officials told USA TODAY. The money transfers, which began more than five years ago, have been used to finance several terrorist acts by bin Laden, including the attempted assassination in 1995 of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia, he officials said……. According to a Saudi government audit acquired by U.S. intelligence, five of Saudi Arabia's top businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom's largest, to transfer personal funds, along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund, to New York and London banks. The money was deposited into the accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden….."------------?USA Today 10/29/99 Jack Kelley?
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"….A Saudi government audit obtained by U.S. intelligence shows that five top Saudi Arabian businessmen ordered the National Commercial Bank, the kingdom's largest, to transfer personal funds and $3 million from a Saudi pension fund to New York and London banks, the newspaper said. It said the money was deposited into accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for bin Laden. Bin Laden, whose family runs the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia, has called for the overthrow of the Saudi government. USA Today quoted the further unidentified U.S. intelligence officials as saying the payments are ``protection money'' aimed at staving off attacks on the businessmen's properties. The money transfers were discovered in August after the Saudi royal family ordered an audit of the National Commercial Bank and its founder and former chairman, Khalid bin Mahfouz, the U.S. officials said….." --------- AP via newsday.com 10/29/99

[piasa]

Vernon Jordan was/is the attorney for Holy Land [terror charity ]
32 posted on 02/16/2006 5:52:38 PM PST by OldFriend | To 1

[TypeZoNegative]

Do any of these people that are in this administration have any PRIVATE sector experience? I think it might be important in this situation.

[AmericanVictory]

Ci-cago, ci-cago, that wonderful town!

In my day there you had to have a twenty clipped to your driver’s license.

We’re sure it’s gone up now.

Reminds me of a client I once had, in trading and transporting number 6 oil out of the Gulf Coast.

After the ‘73 embargo, he was trying to trade oil up river into the Ci-cago area and could not understand why buyer’s were not taking it at 2 and 3 dollars a barrel less in the utilities and industries there.

I had to explain to him that it was not the price, it was the size of the kickback.

[firebrand]

But they’re not paying attention anymore. Only 5 percent watch politics all four years. The other 95 are back to their lives, such as they are, and will never notice anything.