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Great sleuthing FN & BD

FYI:

Indeed, Mr. Petraeus and his wife grew so close to the Kelleys that they hosted the couple and Ms. Kelley’s twin sister, Natalie Khawam, for Christmas dinner last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/us/tampa-social-scene-at-center-of-petraeus-scandal.html

Cross-posting from the (now locked) IBD thread:

Think about her life. She and her sister attended a fund raising event for Marco Rubio for example, they both came and went quickly after having their photographs taken...without making a contribution. That photograph then becomes another for their growing collection. Jill (Gilberte Khawam) invites the local governor to a function with the King of Jordan and his wife. The governor declines. Was he one of the few who had woken up to her?

Did the King of Jordan really visit her and her husband in their about-to-be-foreclosed house? I wonder...

She and her sister are users. Social climbers of the first order, working their way up the Power-ladder, all the way to the White House, where they only reached the level of eating in the employees Mess and had to settle for the usual guided tour the public is blessed with.

The possible poor relatives that fell off the Majdalany family tree in Lebanon generations ago, although potentially related to the Seattle baby-sitter’s husband, still struggling to become important enough to apply for an honorary consulship for South Korea, to enable them to ask for kickbacks from bona-fide developers (to the tune of millions in the form of ‘commission’) reeks of behaviour verging upon the criminal. Little potential Auchies and Rezko’s, is what they are. Natalie may have learned how it works from her husband Wolfe who was involved in Iraq reconstruction, iirc, but a rake-off from the top is nothing but influence peddling and business done the middle eastern way.

No way would any of them, both sisters or the husband of Jill have taken the risk to jeopardize this ‘business’ - years and years of effort and millions (of debt) have been accumulated in pursuit of their position in ‘society’ NO WAY would she have thrown it all away.

She made a bad move contacting the FBI. It ruined her. She’s now an untouchable and totally useless. The creditors will now gather and she has nothing with which to fight them off.