Posted on 03/02/2009 11:01:52 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The media hailed Obama transition at one time as the best in modern history, but that assessment takes yet another hit as yet another Obama appointee carries pay-for-play scandal baggage to his new office. Adolfo Carrion, named as Obama’s “urban czar”, took thousands of dollars in donations from developers as Bronx borough president just before and after the developers scored big with approved projects:
The man who is President Obama’s newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers’ money, a Daily News probe found.
Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion often received contributions just before or after he sponsored money for projects or approved important zoning changes, records show.
Most donations were organized and well-timed.
In one case, a developer became a Carrion fund-raiser two months before the borough president signed off on his project, raising more than $6,000 in campaign cash.
In another, eight Boricua College officials came up with $8,000 on the same day for Carrion three weeks before the school filed plans to build a new tower. Carrion ultimately approved the project and sponsored millions in taxpayer funds for it.
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Oh!Oh! Adolfo is dead meat. (Hope I’m first)
There will be no end to this because of the cesspool these people are fished out of to be put forward for offices of “service.”
Don’t we have enough, and more than enough, “czars” yet????
BTW, appropriately named, isn't he???
Forget scandals. Read a good neutral bio of Ho Chi Minh. Obama is a reincarnation of Uncle Ho. We are in a very dangerous time. Obama and his Party are consolidating the Revolution now.
I appreciate your point but I'd rather mix ground glass with tonights dinner.
Look for a whole sh!t load of these kinds of scandals to crop up during the Obambi administration. Bribery. Illegal campaign donations. Quid pro quo. Conflicts of interest. Tax fraud and tax evasion. They will run the whole gamut from a to z.
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