http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/21/the-democrats-black-sheep.html
The Dems’ Corrupt Money Man
Mar 21, 2010 6:48 PM EDT
High-rolling fundraiser Hassan Nemazee personally spoke to Vice President Joe Biden about an ambassadorship, The Daily Beast has learned. Then the FBI busted him for running a Ponzi scheme. Lloyd Grove on the man behind the fraud.
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When Barack Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate, Nemazee was “ecstatic,” according to an associate, “because now he would have a direct line to the White House.” He boasted that Biden was among his closest friends, and finally he would obtain that ambassadorship he’d always dreamed of. Indeed, he narrowly missed getting one in 1999, when Biden was his lead defender on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Republican senators worked to quash Nemazee’s nomination to be President Clinton’s ambassador to Argentina. A damaging article in Forbes magazine detailing Nemazee’s sharp business practices over the years didn’t help his cause.
“It is my great pleasure to introduce Senator Joe Biden. I take personal pleasure in doing so as Senator Biden is not only a man of unique accomplishments in the Senate but I’m fortunate to call him a personal friend.”
That’s how alleged Ponzi schemer Hassan Nemazee kicked off a March 2002 panel discussion on Iran in Washington, sponsored by the American Iranian Council. (Nemazee’s father is Iranian, according to Forbes.)
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BIDEN: Hassan thank you very much. I want you to know that Hassan, I have taken advantage of his knowledge and taken advantage of his friendship to seek his advice on many, many issues, including Iran. As a matter of fact, had had I my way — I would be referring to him as Ambassador Nemazee.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11492
Kerry’s Iranian Connection Fights Democracy By: Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, September 08, 2004
EXCERPT
Nemazee is an influential figure with many friends in high places in groups such as the American-Iranian Council (AIC), the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and the Iranian-American Bar Association (IABA).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2939362/posts
Court Reveals Iranian Operatives In Charge Of Obama’s Iran Policy Since 2009
westernjournalism.com/ ^ | 26SEP12 | By Doug Book
EXCERPT
In 2009, Barack Obama turned over virtually all responsibility and authority for foreign policy negotiations with Iran to Trita Parsi and his National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Founded by Parsi in 2003, the Washington-based NIAC is a powerful lobbying group that is “…widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian Regime in America.”
IABA, NIAC and IAPAC Hold Unity Campaign
Sunday, December 1, 2002