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Funds Tie Obama to Richardson Probe Figure
ABC News ^

Posted on 01/06/2009 10:53:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Funds Tie Obama to Richardson Probe Figure Embattled Executive David Rubin Gave Thousands to Campaign By JUSTIN ROOD

Jan. 6, 2009—

President-elect Barack Obama took big money from a man at the center of a federal probe that has forced one of Obama's top Cabinet picks to withdraw.

Financial records show the Obama campaign got more than $30,000 from California financier David Rubin, the target of an investigation into donations and possible "pay-to-play" deals involving New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Obama's pick for commerce secretary.

Richardson removed himself from consideration for the post Sunday, saying the ongoing grand jury investigation threatened to hold up his confirmation. Richardson and Rubin have both denied any wrongdoing in the matter, which involved contributions and state business in 2003 and 2004.

David Rubin Attended Exclusive Hollywood Fundraiser for Obama

In late September, Rubin attended an exclusive Los Angeles fundraiser for Obama, held at the Beverly Hills' Greystone Mansion. Attendees gave tens of thousands of dollars which the campaign split between its own coffers, the Democratic National Committee and state-level campaign groups supporting Obama and Democratic candidates. The technique helps campaigns take in from individuals far more than the $2,300 maximum they are allowed to give to a single campaign fund.

Rubin's money went to a joint Obama-DNC fund ($28,500), the DNC itself ($26,200), and to the Obama campaign ($2,300), according to the database of campaign donations at OpenSecrets.Org. News of the federal investigation into Rubin's New Mexico dealings had broken less than three weeks earlier.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: bhocommerce; corruption; corruptobama; cultureofcorruption; donors; fundraising; obama; obamacorruption; obamatransitionfile
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To: Tarpon
Obammunism

That there is trade mark material

21 posted on 01/06/2009 11:28:45 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The tree of liberty is getting mighty dry)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Feel fre to violate the copyright and use it anywhere and all you want ==^_^==


22 posted on 01/06/2009 11:32:10 AM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: Tarpon

OZama is a liar and a crook, never knew that.


23 posted on 01/06/2009 11:38:13 AM PST by stockpirate (To each according to their needs, (bailout) from each according to their ability(bailout funds))
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To: Sub-Driver

Gonna be a fun 4 years! (or less)


24 posted on 01/06/2009 11:38:41 AM PST by icwhatudo
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To: Sub-Driver

Politicians have something of value to sell. They want to sell it. Rich people want to buy, so they can become richer. There is nothing complicated about this. the sad thing is, the electorate doesn’t seem to care, and most often, neither do the courts.


25 posted on 01/06/2009 11:39:02 AM PST by billhilly
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To: Sub-Driver

Rush reading the thread on air now:)


26 posted on 01/06/2009 11:42:18 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: SolidWood

I’m shocked myself. I would expect this from World Net Daily but not ABC. Maybe their trying to win back viewers.


27 posted on 01/06/2009 11:45:59 AM PST by BBell
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To: Sub-Driver

ABC?


28 posted on 01/06/2009 11:50:24 AM PST by CriticalJ
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To: Sub-Driver
"Rubin's money went to a joint Obama-DNC fund ($28,500), ...

How can there be a "joint Obama-DNC fund?"

Isn't that illegal?

29 posted on 01/06/2009 12:11:33 PM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver
David Rubin Named to Governor Rendell's Transition Team; Los Angeles-Based Investment Advisor to Serve on Revenue Team

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2003

Newly elected Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell has named Los Angeles-based Advisor David Rubin to the Governor's Transition Team. Rubin begins his service in January 2003, serving on the Department of Revenue Transition Team.

As Governor-Elect in 2002 and taking office in 2003, Rendell created a Transition Team to help facilitate the smooth implementation of his administration's policies and goals.

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Contribution list from Newsmeat
30 posted on 01/06/2009 12:17:43 PM PST by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I especially liked this comment...

This is really getting to be depressing. I was so hopeful that with supporting Obama, helping him get elected to president, our nation would indeed move away from the “politics of corruption”. Sadly, it appears that I was terribly wrong. Since the November election, it almost seems that there has been a daily steam of news to strongly suggest that Obama is going to be nothing more than Bush’s third term. I have been duped.
jenkinstim

LOL These lefties can’t go thu one day without getting a dig at GW.
Politics of corruption indeed. LOL How many corrupt leftists are now on the list?
LOL If º is nothing more then Bush, we have no problems. LOL


31 posted on 01/06/2009 12:20:55 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: Sub-Driver

I bet Rahm, Valerie and David know more about this.


32 posted on 01/06/2009 12:21:42 PM PST by bergmeid (Best entertainment I've had in a while.)
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To: greyfoxx39

That’s o.k. Workin’ and lurkin’. Boss bought lunch (burp!) and I didn’t get to spend the hour getting up-to-the-hour news.


33 posted on 01/06/2009 12:25:42 PM PST by CedarDave (Under Obama, yesterday's pork-laden earmarks have become tomorrow's economic stimulus projects)
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To: KingSnorky

lol! ;)


34 posted on 01/06/2009 12:29:23 PM PST by 88keys (I'm not a racist/bigot, I just don't want Socialists running my country)
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To: cookcounty
How can there be a "joint Obama-DNC fund?"

Good question...

35 posted on 01/06/2009 12:32:57 PM PST by 88keys (I'm not a racist/bigot, I just don't want Socialists running my country)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hmmmm add this to this list

A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman’s mall project.
Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.

That’s not all either. Nine months later she helped set aside five million for the roadway construction to the new center.
She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.
The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.
FYI-more at Flopping Aces


36 posted on 01/06/2009 12:35:52 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: All

"Pure as the driven snow.......no one in Chicago even comes close."

37 posted on 01/06/2009 12:40:48 PM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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corrupt ping.


38 posted on 01/06/2009 12:41:20 PM PST by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "Senator Government" is here)
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To: ScottinVA

This one involves the Clintons and 0:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1231082hsu1.html

DECEMBER 31—As if being linked to one high-profile criminal case weren’t enough, President-elect Barack Obama’s name may soon pop up in another federal prosecution, this one involving a massive Ponzi scheme (no, the other massive Ponzi scheme). In addition to the Rod Blagojevich pay-for-play probe, Obama could figure in the upcoming fraud trial of Norman Hsu, the disgraced Democratic fundraiser who was charged last year with operating a $60 million pyramid scheme...
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Check out page 5 of Hsu’s lawyers letter to the judge. Seems Clinton and 0 had mutual friends.


39 posted on 01/06/2009 12:54:42 PM PST by appleseed
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To: Sub-Driver
Uh uh uh now look, this was just a guy I met once at a Hollywood party uh uh uh well party/fundraiser. I'm uh uh not even sure I actually uh uh met him that night. I was busy trying to uh uh be cool and uh uh hob nob with the uh uh you know uh uh, those stars. I uh recall uh meeting Leonardo DiCaprio uh and that's really all I have to say except I was present. I was present that's all. Photobucket
40 posted on 01/06/2009 4:53:54 PM PST by mojitojoe
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