Posted on 11/14/2008 6:36:32 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Breaking: Obama Advisor Jarrett Tied to Real Estate in Scandal
President-elect Barack Obama is naming his longtime friend and supporter Valerie Jarrett to be his White House senior adviser.BREAKING: Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett Linked to Real Estate Scandals
Jarrett, who hired Michelle Obama for a job in the Chicago mayor's office years ago, is one of the president-elect's closest friends and advisers. Her name has been floated for several top administration jobs. But Obama settled on the senior adviser role, said a person close to the president-elect and willing to speak only on background because the decision has not been officially announced.
A White House senior adviser can handle a range of duties. President George W. Bush's top political aide Karl Rove held the title in the current administration.
Jarrett has a background in real estate and politics in Chicago.
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.
According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama's former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.
(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was "riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions...lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")
As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in Obama's former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered "uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage.
She’s Vernon Jordan’s niece, isn’t she??
These Chicago thugs stick together like glue.
Man, add another knot to my stomach...
Remember that Bill Daley (GORE) was/is part of the Daley machine. Wonder where he’ll turn up in the Obama Admin.
and she was born in Iran.
Forget first black president; this is the country’s first hip hop administration.
Do these advisors have top secret clearances. Just what are these advisors told about our national security.
Wait until the morons in this country get over their Obama hangover and finally realize what they’ve done. Idiots! They deserve what they are about to get and it’s not going to be the “freebies” they were expecting.
Not hip-hop.
Gangsta.
Yes, the Sheep deserve what is about to happen to them. But no, they will not realize that anything is wrong. They have received The Word Of The One (piss be unto him).
One of Obama's closest confidantes, Jarrett has been friends with Obama and his wife, Michelle, since the President-elect decided to run for the Senate. Dubbed often as "the other half of Obama's brain"Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
And this surprises us how?
And this will not stick.
I’m over it, this guy will get away with murder.
If associations with a man who bombed the pentagon won’t stick, this sure as heck won’t.
I wonder how many times I’ll be saying that in the next 4 years?
Looks like the country i going to get to know the big city like I do. I’m finding it kind of funny.
Yes, the Sheep deserve what is about to happen to them. But no, they will not realize that anything is wrong.
>That’s part of what makes me mad as hell. They won’t even realize it.
Well, they can go to the 0bamanistas for help when they start to feel the pain.
For a good look at Grove Parc Plaza,
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/07/photo-gallery-results-of-obamas.html
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