“Obama’s transition team tells Legal Times that Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, has hired W. Neil Eggleston, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. Eggleston and Emanuel briefly served together in the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, when Eggleston was associate counsel to the president and Emanuel was a senior adviser.”
Didn’t Rahm supposely make $150mil in salary and bonuses, cooking the books while he was at Fannie Mae? Guess he can afford the representation.
IIRC that was Franklin Raines with the $150M walkaway bonus.
Clinton’s going-away gift to Emanuel was a seat on the quasi-governmental Freddie Mac board, which paid him $231,655 in director’s fees in 2001 and $31,060 in 2000,” Lynn Sweet wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times on Jan. 3, 2002.
...since his successful run for the House of Representatives in 2002, Emanuel has been the beneficiary of campaign cash from Freddie Mac and its sister organization Fannie Mae – $51,750 according to the Center for Responsive Politics Web site OpenSecrets.org.
Emanuel received $25,000 in contributions from Freddie Mac during his first run in 2002 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=686_1226023478
Emanuel’s ties to Freddie Mac could become especially problematic considering the fact that the company was accused of “illegally using corporate resources between 2000 and 2003 for 85 fundraisers that collected about $1.7 million for federal candidates.”
http://www.poligazette.com/2008/11/08/rahm-emanuel-under-fire-tax-evasions-and-freddie-mac-ties/