Rahm Emanuel: From Clinton aide to money maker - He made friends and then a fortune
Chicago Tribune - Sunday, November 9, 2003
Author: Mike Dorning, Washington Bureau.
EXCERPT
Emanuel owes his investment banking job to Bruce Wasserstein, a high-rolling Wall Street dealmaker who was one of Clinton's most active fundraisers in the financial community.
Emanuel's two biggest deals involved politically connected utilities: one representing Commonwealth Edison's corporate parent in a merger and the other representing a buyer in the purchase of a home security business from telecom giant SBC Communications. Shortly afterward, SBC hired as its president William Daley, the commerce secretary of the former Clinton administration and the brother of Chicago's mayor.
He gained other commissions by pitching such major Democratic donors as S. Daniel Abraham , the press-shy billionaire and former owner of Slim-Fast, and Bernard Schwartz, a defense industrialist who was a central figure in a scandal over the export of missile technology to China. Taken together with their wives, the two men were the party's largest individual donors in the last presidential election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group.
Veery interesting. It sounds like these people are the clean-up crew for whatever scandal Wexler is involved in. Whenever a democrat politician or appointee gets in trouble..the wealthy dem donors get ‘the call’ to do ‘clean up’ and ‘job offers’. Van Jones and Edwards come to mind. Who was the wealthy dem donor that paid off Edwards mistress? I can’t remember his name now.
Granted, these were several years ago. Still looking for a newer list.
Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation - Sponsor of Congressional Travel
[The first name in each section is the Traveler. The second name is the approver.]
Johnson, Eric J
05/30/03-06/03/03 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Syria - Jordan - ... more
Fact-finding $7,362.39
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
06/28/02-07/03/02 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Cairo, Egypt - Tel Aviv, Israel - ... more
Fact-finding; meeting with officials $11,991.33
Rogin, Joshua A
03/03/02-03/08/02 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Saudi Arabia - Jordan - ... more
Fact-finding-meetings with government officials $3,533.36
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
03/03/02-03/08/02 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Saudi Arabia - Jordan - ... more
Fact-finding-meetings with government officials $7,772.79
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
11/25/01-11/29/01 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Fact-finding $8,419.05
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
10/04/01-10/07/01 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Saudi Arabia - Bahrain
Fact-finding $10,517.17
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
02/17/01-02/22/01 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Tel Aviv, Israel - Amman, Jordan - ... more
Fact-finding $8,408.27
Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
01/10/00-01/17/00 Wexler, Rep. Robert (-FL)
Morocco - United Arab Emirates - ... more
Education/meeting with government officials $14,408.
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