Lept out at me as well. This is outrageous. These elected crooks have
their fingers in the US treasury every which way. We lose everytime.
Deep Politics, Liberalisation and Corruption: The Mangalore Power Corporation Controversy (a freerepublic link in this one)
"Subsequent information, however, would appear to confuse matters even further. Were senior members of Exim bank correct in making the above clarification? According to a report in Hindu Business Line, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) appears to have been signed - in December 1997 - between US Exim-Bank Vice-Chairman, Jackie Clegg, and Ron Somers and representatives of Cogentrix and CLP concerning the project (Hindu Business Line, 2000). If this was the first MOU signed between the respective parties, this would still tend to suggest that assurances made by Cogentrix prior to this date were possibly questionable."
It's Been A Good Day For Trade Relations in the Middle East-October 11, 1999
"JACKIE M. CLEGG, First Vice President and Vice Chair of Ex-Im Bank (May 1997-present)
The Current Export-Import 'Team'
"As we said in the previous section, currently the Board of directors of the Export-Import Bank has only four members - its President and Chairman, James Harmon, its Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jackie M. Clegg, the Secretary of Commerce William Daley and the U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Of these four only its President and Vice President can vote on disbursement of funds. There are three director seats vacant which, after Ms. Haley 'left', provided the board with an absence of quorum; thus the need to push Weaver into the key spot. Seems like a rather sloppy, high budget, paper-shuffling operation (almost $2 billion in 1998!!!) when it can't even muster a vote!
Ms. Clegg was nominated on May 6, 1997. Her bio reads like a nonevent - like someone on the FBI's relocation program. In fact it doesn't even list education or previous employment, which leads us to wonder if she had either. Anyway, she's in there voting to spend the big bucks!
*** Hello, anybody home??? Senator Christopher Dodd(D-Conn) wife!!!
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Jeff -- It appears 'barefoot' is somewhere in your neck of the woods.
Liz, for about 5 yrs. I've been interjecting the barbed point about the incestuous nature of our government at the stage of our National history. I'm actually very serious about it even if it appears to be alley humor at times.
I wish that a capable, knowledgable writer would take on the task of compiling the "by marriage" "by blood/heritage" relationships throughout our government. It's done in a "by association" basis in PIR's "Social Diagrams" (I'll find my link to that) which is much help at times.
But I believe a lot of folks would see an aspect of "government by nepotism" they aren't aware of.