Penny Pritzker: Obama's Campaign Finance Chair and Pioneer in Subprime Loans
Senator Barack Obamas campaign finance chairperson, faces a potential controversy over finance chairwoman Penny Pritzkers past association with Superior Bank, which failed and was seized by regulators in 2001.
Billionaire Penny Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels) helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior, overseeing her familys 50% ownership stake, John R. Emshwiller writes for The Wall Street Journal. She now serves as Barack Obamas national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her and perhaps to the campaign.
Superior was criticized for engaging in predatory lending, and paid out $200 million in dividends to owners throughout the 90s based on cooked books. Seeing as Ms. Pritzker was one of those owners, thats mighty interesting. Team Obama has released a statement saying that Ms. Pritzker herself was never accused of any wrongdoing, and that the Pritzker family paid our $460 million to help defray the cost of Superiors collaspe.
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