Posted on 03/25/2009 7:36:30 AM PDT by Terabitten
WASHINGTON -- The leading candidate to run the Treasury Department's $700 billion bailout program has withdrawn his name from consideration, according to people familiar with the matter.
Frank Brosens, a hedge-fund manager and big Democratic donor, was considered the top contender to run the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is now considering several other candidates, including Herb Allison, who currently heads mortgage titan Fannie Mae.
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So they're looking at one of the guys who caused the whole mess to help fix it?
Lord, give me strength.
How did his taxes look?
Why not, may as well have both crooks from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac running the show, so they can "co-ordinate" their cover up work.
Unfreakin' believable. Where's the FBI? CIA? Why isn't Obama and all the rest of these crooks, Democrat party in prison?
Now there you go. THAT'S a sterling resume!
Brosens began a 15-year career with Goldman Sachs & Co. He became a partner in 1988 before retiring in 1994 as the co-head of energy trading.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/17/AR2009011702520.html
The Donors Who Gave Big, and Often - Obama’s $100,000-Plus Backers Were Able to Contribute to Several Entities
Washington Post, The (DC) - Sunday, January 18, 2009
Author: Kimberly Kindy and Sarah Cohen, Washington Post Staff Writers
Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows.
As inaugural donations become public, a list of Obama’s most loyal backers has emerged, pointing to his success with a system that allows supporters to give maximum amounts on several occasions and to multiple committees.
The families gave to as many as five committees, records show, and 27 of the 94 families also bundled money from others, collecting millions of dollars on top of their personal donations.
Among the supporters were well-known families such as the Rockefellers, as well as lesser-known backers such as New Yorker Frank Brosens , a leader in the hedge fund industry, who raised $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and inauguration in addition to the $182,000 he gave with his wife, parents and three sons.
“I told them it’s going to be a passion for me, and I’d like for them to get involved,” Brosens said.
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He worked as an investment banker in ... Tehran, Iran,
And, another FR headline:
So in addition to being one of the geniuses at Fannie Mae, the guy has ties to Iran?
Wonder how his taxes look?
No one wants to take these jobs, because the public hates TARP and the bailouts and they know Geithner will be pitched overboard soon after the majority of Obama’s dirty work is done.
Allison is the government conservator for Fannie Mae, meaning he was appointed to run the shop by President Bush AFTER Fannie Mae was nationalized.
Vetting .,, the bane of charlatans.
Still a crook, regardless of how he got there. Bush was obviously an idiot for putting him there.
and another one bites the dust.....lol
I wonder what his bonus was last year?
100 families gave at least $10 million to the O... and how many now have government jobs?
Democrats only drop out if some scandal in their closet is about to become public.
These people are ALL crooks.
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