GREGG CRAIG LAWYER FOR ELIAN GONZALES AND FIDEL CASTRO DID THIS:
Posted on 04/20/2010 10:54:51 AM PDT by mojito
Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel, Gregory Craig.
The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig — now in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — in recent weeks to help in navigate the halls of power in Washington, a source familiar with the firm told POLITICO.
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In Craig, Goldman Sachs will have help from a lawyer with deep connections in Democratic circles.
Craig served as White House counsel during the first year of Obama’s presidency, but is seen as having been pushed out for his role in advocating a strict timeline for the closing of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. His departure frustrated many liberal Obama supporters who saw Craig as a strong advocate for undoing some of what they saw as the worst excesses of the Bush era.
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Skadden declined to comment on Craig’s role with Goldman.
"A former White House employee cannot appear before any unit of the Executive Office of the President on behalf of any client for 2 years—one year under federal law and another year under the pledge pursuant to the January 2009 ethics E0," said a White House official.
The official also said that the White House had no contact with the SEC on the Goldman Sachs case.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
~~Another slick move ............ PING!
And we thought the Clintons were calculating
and conniving.
“And we thought the Clintons were calculating
and conniving.”
Whoever is behind Obama out Clinton-ed the Clintons.
Isn’t this Craig the pond scum who represented COOBA in the Elian case?
yes it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Craig
back scratching... out in the open
They are.
Although they don’t particularly like America, at least unlike the current occupant, they don’t actively loathe all things American.
I’d miss them if they’d ever actually go away...
They are so bold. They just throw in in our faces now knowing the press and certainly the Justice Department will do and say Nothing! In the end...it will bring them DOWN!
Yep.
I can imagine the meeting.
Hillary produces proof 0bama was born in Kenya.
Obama shows Hillary proof of a fraction of her felonies.
What’s the worst that could have happened to 0bama?
He declares that he was always told he was born in Hawaii, and had never been informed of the true circumstances of his birth, apologizes, and then he gracefully steps down and goes back to being a senator.
What’s the worst that could happen to Hillary!™?
If 1/10th of the rumors are true, She’d be facing being stripped of all her congressional perks, serious jail time and perhaps even the death penalty.
In this show-down, guess who blinks...
Exactly. He might be an invaluable attorney for GS or a Judas working on behalf of the administration.
The stench is unbearable.
This IS the clintons. I have been warning about this since day zero. No one would listen.
...and Greg Craig has a long, seamy past.
The Washington players have become so inbred, they are like a virus that mutates right before our eyes...and just as lethal to the Body Politic.
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