Posted on 09/08/2009 3:37:08 AM PDT by rellimpank
Thanks very much. Read and watched it all.
From:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/rezko/588442,watchdog04.stng
Ald. Edward M. Burke is chairman of the Chicago City Council’s powerful Finance Committee. He also runs a small law firm, Klafter & Burke, that specializes in appeals of property assessments. Burke gets a cut of what clients save in lowered property taxes...
How much more do you want....?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303732.html
Top Economics Aide Discloses Income - Summers Earned Salary From Hedge Fund, Speaking Fees From Wall St. Firms
Washington Post, The (DC) - Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett , meanwhile, earned $850,000 in salary and deferred compensation from Habitat Executive Services, as well as $346,687 in directors’ fees from companies including Navigant Consulting and manufacturing firm USG, according to the documents.
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Axelrod made $1.5 mil. as adviser last year
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, April 6, 2009
Author: Lynn Sweet, The Chicago Sun-Times
Valerie Jarrett : Jarrett earned $302,000 as a top executive at Habitat and more through deferred
compensations and serving on a variety of boards: $76,000 in directors fees at Navigant Consulting ; $24,000 at Veolia Transportation Services; $57,000, the Joyce Foundation; $34,444, the Chicago Stock Exchange board; $58,000 at the RReef American Reit board; $148,643, USG Corp. and $19,000 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, as well as a $35,559 from the CTA, deferred income stemming from her stint as CTA chairman in 1995.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama-jarrett21nov21,0,7075788.story
Although Jarrett’s connections generally have proven profitable, they have also led to some notable embarrassments by enmeshing Habitat in the management of two dilapidated low-income housing projects. Those problems have recently attracted national attention because of Jarrett’s ties to Obama.
“Do I enjoy seeing our name in the newspaper associated with an extremely troubled property?” Jarrett said. “No I don’t, but I also have confidence that people know our reputation and value the job that we do.”
Jarrett was born into the city’s African-American elite. Her grandfather Robert Taylor was the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority.Jarrett was a young City Hall lawyer in 1988 when she met Richard M. Daley at the wedding of her friend John Rogers, a prominent investment adviser.Daley was elected mayor a year later, and Jarrett rose quickly to the post of planning commissioner in his cabinet. Along the way, she hired a lawyer named Michelle Obama, who introduced Jarrett to her husband, Barack.
Jarrett became a good friend of both Obamas, serving as chairman of the finance committee for Obama’s 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate and a key adviser in the presidential race.
Over the years, Jarrett has accumulated an astounding array of directorships. She has been on about 17 boards, a total that doesn’t include government agencies such as the Chicago Transit Authority, where she was Daley’s hand-picked chairman from 1995 to 2003.
Jarrett has been a director along with former Republican Gov. James Thompson at Navigant Consulting, an international consulting firm that has contracts worth about $2 million a year with the state.
“She brings—aside from common sense and integrity—a wealth of contacts in the Chicago community,” Thompson said.
Since 2005, she also has sat on the board of RREEF America REIT II, a real estate investment trust that has obtained investments of about $23 million from the CTA pension fund and more than $120 million from state pension funds.
Until last year, Jarrett was chairman of the Chicago Stock Exchange and was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She has been vice chairman of the University of Chicago’s board of trustees, chairman of the university’s hospital board and a vice chairman of the team preparing the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympics—one of the mayor’s most cherished initiatives.
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Jarrett ‘s main job for the last 13 years has been at Habitat. Best known for developing luxury condominiums, Habitat also plays major roles in low-income housing.
As the court-appointed receiver in a long-running desegregation case, Habitat helps decide which developers participate in Daley’s controversial plan to replace high-rise projects with new mixed-income neighborhoods. For that work, the company has been paid $18 million in fees and expenses by the federal government in the last eight years.
Habitat also manages low-income housing projects in Chicago, Atlanta and St. Louis. The Chicago Housing Authority, which pays the company about $600,000 a year to manage 12 projects, said Habitat does a good job.
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Habitat “did a poor job” at Grove Parc, said Lonnie Richardson, president of its tenants’ group. When residents heard Jarrett was up for a big job in Washington, “we were concerned about that because she was head of that Habitat,” Richardson said.
Similar problems surfaced at Lawndale Restoration, after Habitat became co-manager of the 1,200-unit complex in 1999. In 2004, city inspectors found 1,800 violations, and a judge ruled several of the buildings were uninhabitable and beyond repair.
Habitat, which received about $4 million in fees from both projects, is no longer involved with either of them. Jarrett said Habitat made a mistake by agreeing to manage troubled properties that didn’t generate enough cash to keep them in good shape. But she defended Habitat’s work, saying that the company did “the best we could with the resources that were available.”
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Aerial Photos of Obama’s Stunning State Senatorial Experience (Obama the Slum-Lord)
directorblue.blogspot.com ^ | directorblue
Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:43:11 PM
I don’t hear much about Barack Obama’s experience. So I decided to do a flyover of the neighborhood where Obama served as a state senator. Specifically, the apartment complexes rehabbed and managed by his biggest backers. Folks like convicted felon and (17-year friend of Barack’s) Tony Rezko. And top campaign officials like Valerie Jarrett.
Here’s just one of the partially uninhabitable properties called Grove Parc Plaza Apartments, a 1000-unit complex. Quoting from the Boston Globe:
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Nice job-—thanks for the research.
METHODOLOGY Raising questions-——Socratic Method——engenders discussion——gets results desired.
Lots of freepers contributing just keeping it all in one spot....So we can more easily connect the dots.
Deferred compensations..... to avoid taxes. If added to Jarrett's then-income, would have put her in a higher tax bracket---so she got the income deferred.
The IRS should do a complete audit of her returns to make sure she paid all the taxes due.
REPORT TAX FRAUD AND TAX LAW VIOLATIONS HERE:
IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433----you may remain anonymous.
EMAIL .......OAAG.Tax@tax.USDOJ.gov
FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)
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Let's get this highly publicized.
EMAIL rush@eibnet.com
EMAIL 60m@cbsnews.com
FOX CONTACT PAGE http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
FOX PHONE 1-888-369-4762
EMAIL - elrushbo@eibnet.com
The other address was compromised in some way, I think.
I don’t know why anyone would want to bring her down. She is obviously incompetent and does little more than cause problems for the administration, and make them all look bad.
Yup!
I heard Dan Rather whining about the slipping
ratings in MSM. Not Fox. Not Conservative radio.
He was also bashing blogger journalism. next
thing you know they’ll require a license to blog.
Beck asked for 50 good men. A mere 50 good men
organized to defeat King George.
Lord Jesus, please help Your people. Please bring
us Gideon’s army. In Jesus name!
"So let us never forget: much of what we take for granted -- the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, health insurance, paid leave, pensions, Social Security, Medicare -- they all bear the union label." Barak Obama 9/5/09 at the AFL-CIO Parasite's Picnic!!!
“the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, health insurance, paid leave, pensions, Social Security, Medicare — they all bear the union label”
For all that I condem the unions!!!
Especially 40 hours a week, I’ve never in my life found that to be nearly enough, that’s for irresponsible hired grunts!
So how can the unemployment rate be reported to be 10.5%???
It's stuff like the Lizzard's List in that speech above, that have so burdened the small employer in CA that causes crappy facts like these to emerge!!!
Somethime back in the 60s to massage the figures they included all those on welfare as employed so after Davis signed the bill giving welfare to all illegal aliens 10% unemployed is actually a gigantic number!!
So may it be.....Amen
Ping!
keepin’ this bumped!
A STINGING REPLY
You are too kind... but don’t stop!!!
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