[SatinDoll]

Years ago I read that she had been a “slum lord”, renting out apartments that were crumby and substandard.

[Servant of the Cross]

Years ago I read that she had been a “slum lord”, renting out apartments that were crumby and substandard.

Jarrett was an early supporter of Obama’s political career. From her post at the nexus of Chicago business and politics, she was helpful in introducing the ambitious state senator to rich and well-connected figures. The association was not without embarrassment, however. Jarrett was an occasional collaborator with the developer Antoin Rezko, whose 2006 arrest for public corruption became a shallow pothole in Obama’s road to the White House. And Jarrett herself provided some bad headlines: In addition to her public burdens, she ran Habitat Co., which received taxpayer subsidies to manage low-income housing projects seemingly into the ground. The feds seized one complex in 2006; another, Grove Parc Plaza, was exposed as a decrepit slum by the Boston Globe in 2008.

You are correct. This is a link to an outstanding summary of the "Worst White House Aide".

[infowarrior]

Years ago I read that she had been a “slum lord”, renting out apartments that were crumby and substandard.

She was one of the worst of the kind in the city of Chicago, owning at one time, the infamous Cabrini Greens complex (of the movie "Candyman" infamy) and another squalid hellhole actually closed down by the Feds, it was so bad.

And this sordid specimen of whatever species she could be called (human is very doubtful, in my book) is the best that the administration could come up with as 'chief of staff'?

it boggles the mind...

the infowarrior