[Liz]

(Sob) damn shame Wasserstein, Rhambo and Ohaha won't be able to cash in, what with having the US Treasury at their disposal (/sarc). Rhambo and Ohaha must be c-r-u-s-h-e-d---they will have to look elsewhere to squirrel away billions from the TARP slush fund and trillions from healthcare reform (sniffle).

RAHM TIMELINE: BALLETOMANE, CHICAGO OPERATOR, FOUNDED Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust TAX DODGE, CLINTON ADVISOR, WALL STREET MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, CONGRESSMAN, WHITE HOUSE COS (was not even voted most likely to succeed).

1992 Emanuel's knowledge of the top Dem donors, and his affinity rapport with potential donors within the Jewish community, who were making zillions with Bernie Madoff, helped Clinton amass a then-unheard-of sum of $72 million which nailed the Billary victory.

1993 Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton 1993-1998. Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and then Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy. He was a leading strategist in the unsuccessful White House efforts to institute universal healthcare and many other Clinton initiatives.

1993 One of Rahm's proudest moments was an event that touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel as a dual citizen and a volunteer in the Israeli military: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO which cost US taxpayers several hundred billion dollars. Emanuel directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat (as terrorism resumed shortly thereafter).

1998 While official Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a senior political aide to Pres Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview, The New York Times’s Michael Luo writes.

John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson’s boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel.

“I had this idea that this could work and that it had upside,” Mr. Wasserstein, now chairman and chief executive of Lazard, the investment bank, told The Times. “It worked out better than I could have hoped.” And better than Mr. Emanuel could have imagined as well.

Over the course of a three-hour-plus dinner, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Emanuel discussed how they might work together. Shortly afterward, Mr. Emanuel accepted an offer, nudging him down what has by now become a well-trodden gilded path out of politics and into the lucrative world of business.

1998 Wonder Boy Rahm resigned his position as an advisor to Bill Clinton, to become a Wall Street investment banker with Wasserstein Perella, (now Dresdner Kleinwort), where he worked until 2002.

1999 Just like that (snaps fingers)----in 1999, Rahm became managing director at their Chicago office. According to Congressional disclosures, Emanuel made $16.2 million in his 2 1/2 year stint as a Wasserstein Perella banker (AND probably paid all his taxes).

Amazingly, with those contacts, Rahm became a multi-millioniare overnight----and he wasn't even voted "Most Likely To Succeed."

At Wasserstein Perella, Rahm worked on eight deals, including the acquisition by Commonwealth Edison of Peco Energy and the purchase by GTCR Golder Rauner of the SecurityLink home security unit from SBC.

2002 Rahm then ran for Congress (successfully, OF COURSE). Luckily (/snic) members of the securities and investment industry became Rahm's biggest backers, donating more than $1.5M up to 2002, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

2006 Rahm also leaned heavily upon the financial industry as 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair. Financial industry donors contributed more than $5.8M to the Dem committee (behind only retirees).

Remember, the point of Obama bringing Rahm in was so that "tolerant and compassionate bi-partisan Rahm" could work constructively w/ Congress to pass an ambitious agenda.......

Here's tolerant Rahm expressing his feelings for America on inauguration day.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

Has an Obama body count been started the way there was a Clinton body count? This sounds suspicious.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Wasserstein died at age 61 after being hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat....the exact cause could not be determined.”

Rat poison will do that to ya. Check him for Warfarin overdose, (also known under the brand names Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran...)

[cranked]

I am near positive that Rahm will send flowers.

[Arrowhead1952]

Arkancide??

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[DYngbld]

What did he know, and who was he going to tell?

[Tolsti2]

In general, I wonder why these mega millionaires do their acts late in life. Ken Lay, for one, and this guy. They aren’t going to live that long, but still do things that really aren’t proper. When I was in my 20’s a few millions would be party time. In my 30’s, a relaxing life. After that, phew.

[Just mythoughts]

What a tangled web they have woven.

[zwerni]

with all his money he should have had a food taster..

[listenhillary]

I kept seeing lizard when reading this.

[ETL]

That's Rahm, "Dead Fish" Emanuel...

"In between his stints in Washington, Emanuel got rich working as an investment banker. He once sat on the board of Freddie Mac and recuses himself from any Congressional votes on the mortgage giant."

"Has been known to send out cheesecakes from Eli's Bakery in Chicago to campaign donors and the many Democratic candidates he has recruited over the years. Once, when a pollster made him angry, Emanuel sent him a dead fish."

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856965,00.html
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(Sonny opens a package to find two fish wrapped in Luca's bulletproof vest.)

Sonny: What the hell is this?

Pete Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Godfather
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[SonOfDarkSkies]

Carl Icahn said of Wasserstein...

"I don't think too many things really bothered him. I think he had a great deal of belief in himself."

I bet that's not an operative statement at this point in time! Death has a way of putting things in perspective.

[redstateconfidential]

“While everyone else was fighting the Vietnam War, he was studying English takeover law at Cambridge.”

[commish]

HMmm billionaire marries 29 yr old and dies 9 months later under mysterious circumstances.

[stephenjohnbanker]

P I N G

[Landru]

"...the exact cause could not be determined."

Here we go, deja vu all over again.
The Clintigula *legacy* continues.

Thanks, Liz.
WTH would we all do without you. :^)

[Major Matt Mason]

He was a friend of Rahm's? So long to bad, anti-American rubbish, then.

[Mamzelle]

(sob sob)...

[litehaus]

BTTT 4 RAHMBO ALERT !