Posted on 05/01/2020 5:22:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Former Senator Chris Dodd has been named co-chairman of the committee that will help Joe Biden pick a vice presidential nominee. Dodd resigned from the Senate after a string of favor-trading scandals.
David Harsanyi reminds us:
Most scandalously, Dodd had slipped an amendment into the 2008 “stimulus” bill ensuring that AIG executives would get their bonuses paid by taxpayers. AIG, not incidentally, had donated more to Dodd, who initially lied about the provision, than to any other politician in the country, and given his wife a cushy board seat on a Bermuda-based company in their orbit. The chairman of Senate Banking Committee had also been one of the “Friends of Angelo,” a program in which Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo would hand sweetheart below-market rate mortgages to his friends in D.C. And that wasn’t all.
Helped by his longtime friend Harvey Weinstein, who had made Dodd the top beneficiary of his political contributions during his career, the former senator would find work as Hollywood’s top lobbyist — even though he had repeatedly promised not work as a lobbyist once his career ended.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Isn;t Dodd working in Hollywood?
It’s always the same people. Don’t they ever go away?
Yes, Dodd and Teddy used to make sandwiches together with female staffers...
Biden and Dodd are looking forward to a VP sandwich.
Hopefully not with Stacey Abrams!
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