Posted on 10/08/2010 10:26:59 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
That's Franklin Delano Raines. His parents named him after the Idiot on the Dime.
Yuck. No wonder he’s a crook.
“Donilon left the firm as it was mired in an accounting scandal in 2005....”
Obvious selection. Dirty enough to assure loyalty....
— Obama’s close hometown crony, campaign finance chief and senior adviser Penny Pritzker was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports. Pritzker’s lawyer at O’Melveny and Myers, Tom Donilon, is now Obama’s deputy national security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing her and other high-profile meltdown clients including Goldman Sachs.
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Penny Pritzker is the one McCain should be hammering Obama with –
The New York Times reported December 11, 2001, that the Pritzkers had agreed to pay a “record $460 million” spread out over 15 years to the federal government to avoid being punished” for Superior Bank’s failure. It was “the largest settlement ever in the failure of a banking institution. The failure itself is one of the largest in the last decade, one that some estimate could cost the government up to $1 billion.”
“Regulators said Superior had collapsed because of poor lending practices and sloppy bookkeeping,” Time wrote. “The bank specialized in loans to people with poor credit histories, a practice called subprime lending.”
Time also reported that the Pritzkers, who “have a long and troubled history in the S.& L. business” and “once battled the Internal Revenue Service over estate taxes, … also agreed to cede 90 percent of any money they might recover in separate litigation with the government.”
Pritzer is the campaign finance chair.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/obamas-pritzker-problem/
Comment by william — 9/19/2008 @ 7:00 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/11/business/hyatt-hotel-family-will-pay-460-million-in-s-l-case.html
Hyatt Hotel Family Will Pay $460 Million in S.& L. Case
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: December 11, 2001
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"Obama’s close hometown crony, campaign finance chief and senior adviser Penny Pritzker was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports. Pritzker’s lawyer at O’Melveny and Myers, Tom Donilon, is now Obama’s deputy national security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing her and other high-profile meltdown clients including Goldman Sachs."
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These filthy lying, thieving, crooked THUGS!!!! This madness MUST end!!
PLACEMARK
I can’t do this today.
Bob Woodward’s book:
Gates is quoted as saying “Donolion would be the worst mistake to replace General Jones.”
Why are we NOT surprised! This crew of thugs have always
done the WRONG things....and gotten away with them. It truly
IS time for it to end....and I CAN see November from my house!
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28562
Thomas Donilon is really Biden’s man. He’s worked for Biden in the past. His brother works for him. His wife is Biden’s Chief of Staff. If Donilon was any deeper in with Biden, he’d be married to him. Which means it’s good odds that Biden helped push out Jones. Biden’s supposed reason for being in his present job is his foreign policy expertise. Putting in Donilon let him have an oar in the water, now his oar just got a little bigger.
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WASHINGTON TALK: THE 1988 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Summer, and the Political Operatives Do Not Let Up
New York Times, The (NY) - Monday, August 10, 1987
Author: BERNARD WEINRAUB
The torpor of Washington in August has hardly slowed Tom Donilon and Rich Bond.
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“August is really the time for organization, for activists, for putting people in place,” said Mr. Donilon , a senior adviser to the Presidential effort of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware. “By the fall, the lights go up. The campaign begins in earnest.”
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Thomas E. Donilon and Richard N. Bond are two key political operatives in Washington, a city in the grip of Presidential politics, even in August, even one year before the national party conventions. Although Washington serves as a haven for political operatives, who work for their Democratic or Republican rivals, Mr. Donilon and Mr. Bond are two of the most formidable.
While they differ ideologically, Mr. Donilon and Mr. Bond are remarkably similar.
They are in their thirties, they rose quickly as political tacticians, they are fascinated with the process, rather than the power, of politics, and, although friends don’t believe them, they say that 1988 may be their last Presidential campaign.
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Mr. Donilon , sitting in his office in the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, from which he is taking a leave to work full-time for Mr. Biden ‘s candidacy, observed: “Frankly, I don’t know if you can pursue the opportunities at an older age when you have a family and more responsibility. It’s truly a young person’s game. I’m 32. I’m single. If you have a family and financial responsibilities, I’m not sure you can run off for 18 or 24 months at a time in what is at best a risky proposition. Ultimately, politics is something you can’t pursue for a lifetime, and I suspect four years from now, if I’m married and have children, that this will be my last campaign.”
Mr. Donilon has been criticized for the role he played as a central figure in Walter F. Mondale’s 1984 Presidential campaign, a campaign that centered on a virtually closed circle of advisers who excluded outsiders, especially women. Similar criticisms have arisen about the Biden campaign, which includes some of the same Mondale advisers, but Mr. Donilon says women and outsiders play key roles in the Biden organization.
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“In no area I know of can one have such large areas of reponsibility than in politics,” Mr. Donilon said. “Also I don’t know anything that has as much excitement and that counts as much. It’s the winning and losing. And there are very few things you work on where the results of your work may be in The New York Times every single day.
“Besides, where else can you have as big an impact on the public policy debate as in a Presidential campaign?” Mr. Donilon added: “I don’t know if you can do a Presidential campaign other than as an obsession. Therefore you’ll find a lot of obsessive people at high levels of Presidential campaigns.”
Mr. Donilon says he comes from “an intensely Democratic political family.” His mother is a union official and school secretary in Providence, R.I., and his father was chairman of the city’s school board.
After graduating from Catholic University in Washington in 1978, he was hired, through a friend at the Carter White House, for a job of answering Congressional mail. Hamilton Jordan, then the White House chief of staff, later named him “chief delegate hunter” for Mr. Carter in the 1980 campaign. He later attended law school at Georgetown and the University of Virginia, and he joined the Mondale campaign for the 1984 election.
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BORK HEARINGS COULD MAKE, BREAK BIDEN CANDIDACY
SACRAMENTO BEE - Sunday, September 13, 1987
Author: Michael Shanahan Bee Washington Bureau
EXCERPT
Photographs of the episode show an angry, scowling Biden , appearing out of control before the usually sedate setting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“”It was not the most flattering photograph ever taken of Joe Biden ,’’ concedes senior Biden campaign official Tom Donilon .
That incident gave rise to speculation that the highly politicized atmosphere surrounding the Bork fight could bring on some intense television drama.
Donilon acknowledged the anticipation of “”Washington insiders’’ that Biden might “”leap over the table and grab Bob Bork by the throat.’’
But Donilon said there will be no emotional outburst. Instead, Donilon said, Biden will politely but forcefully ask Bork to describe and explain 30 years of legal opinions, most of which argue that the founding fathers never intended governmental intervention in many areas of American life where a federal role has been taken for granted for decades.
Donilon acknowledges there is a real political risk for Biden in the hearings, expected to run into early October, and says the senator understands the importance of the Bork fight to his own campaign.
“”He really has put a lot of himself into this,’’ Donilon said. “”But to the extent that Biden appears intelligent, fair-minded and controlled, it will accrue to his benefit. This really is an opportunity for the senator to appear unfiltered, as he is.’’
Great INFO!
Is Donilon the source of the Chamber of Commerce attacks?
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Thomas E. Donilon
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Director
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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