Posted on 09/29/2011 5:50:08 AM PDT by maggief
Several of Barack Obama's top campaign supporters went from soliciting political contributions to working from within the Energy Department as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, ABC News and iWatch News have learned.
One of them was Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate. He became one of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's key loan program advisors while his wife's law firm represented a number of companies that had applied for loans.
Recovery Act records show Allison Spinner's law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, received $2.4 million in federal funds for legal fees related to the $535 million Energy Department loan guarantee to Solyndra, a solar company whose financial meltdown has prompted multiple investigations. She pledged to take no portion of the money and did not work on the loan applications.
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This “renewable energy funding” is just open access to the US coffers......sickening.
Spinner’s wife’s name is Allison.
Either they want to make it look so bad that Obama gets out of the way OR else they want to get this all out there now, so when the campaign heats up, this will all be “old news”.
I think it’s the “old news” angle they’re working.
Someone on the left is going to realize that they have a huge career opportunity to be the first one to investigate and publish a story on Obama.
Glen Beck had no problem finding evidence, what could someone moving in leftist circles find?
One could readily get a book together just in time for elections next year.
“New use for Gitmo?”
I say for Obama and his cronies the Marines be allowed to re-institute “Red Line Brigs.” at Gitmo.
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