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发帖数: 29846 | 1 华尔街大佬继续挺奥巴马：Urban Trust Bank主席给奥巴马办筹款会，门票17,900一张
；刚刚破产的全球曼氏金融主管已经为奥巴马筹了50万
In 2009, President Barack Obama said he didn’t run for office to help out
“fat cat bankers,” but it appears that he has no problem with fat cat
bankers — or the fat cat law firms who represent them — helping him.
Monday night, Obama will attend a private fundraiser hosted by Dwight Bush,
president of Urban Trust Bank, and his wife Antoinette, a partner at the
international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom. Skadden is
the firm hired to handle the bankruptcy of MF Global, the large Wall Street
firm headed by Jon Corzine, former governor of New Jersey and a strong ally
of President Obama.
Tickets for the event are at least $17,900 per person.
The Center for Responsive Politics calls Skadden “a clearinghouse for
donors to the Democratic Party.”
On it’s website, OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive Politics writes
, “Though the firm’s political action committee has remained dormant
recently, individual donors associated with Skadden … have given hundreds
of thousands [of dollars] to Democratic candidates and committees during the
past 20 years.”
As previously reported by The Daily Caller, Corzine — also a former Goldman
Sachs chairman — is a major bundler for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign
. Overall, Corzine has raised more than $500,000 for Obama. (RELATED: Jon
Corzine’s MF Global investigated for missing millions)
Corzine is also one of Obama’s point men for reaching out to Wall Street.
Corzine co-hosted an Obama fundraiser at his house in April where tickets
sold for $35,800 a piece. He was also present at a White House meeting
between Obama and two dozen Wall Street execs and longtime donors.
In a 2009 interview, Obama said, “I did not run for office to be helping
out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”
“They’re still puzzled [over] why is it that people are mad at the banks,
” Obama said. “Well, let’s see: You guys are drawing down $10, $20
million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it’
s gone through in decades and you guys caused the problem. And we’ve got 10
percent unemployment.”
Corzine is expected to receive a $12.1 million severance package — what
critics of Wall Street excess, like Obama, often call “golden parachutes.”
MF Global is currently under investigation by both the FBI and the
Securities Exchange Commission for losing $600 million in customer money. | b**********s
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