Posted on 08/26/2009 6:44:31 PM PDT by stan_sipple
A wealthy investment banker and prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats was arrested Tuesday on charges he lied to get a $74 million business loan that -- once confronted by authorities -- he hastily repaid.
Prosecutors accused Hassan Nemazee of giving Citibank documents showing he owned millions of dollars in collateral. They said the documents were "fraudulent and forged." A Clinton spokesman didn't immediately return an e-mail message seeking comment.
The chairman and chief executive of Manhattan-based Nemazee Capital Corp. served as national finance chairman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008, and later raised money for Obama after her primary defeat. He also was Sen. John Kerry's finance chairman in New York for his 2004 bid for president.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated him to be U.S. ambassador to Argentina but his nomination was never confirmed.
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Just another day in Obamaville.
this story is wrong, he must have been working for Abramoff (sarc)
Just some guy that lived in Obama’s neighborhood; nothing to see here
I’m sure Hillary doesn’t even remember him.
Prominent Fund-raiser, hell.... He engineered the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee’s enormous precedent-shattering 2006 windfall fundraising... and he’s an Iranian con man.
we have plenty of home grown con men, we dont need to import any more
The president said he is not the Hassan Nemazee he remembers.
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