In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae’s chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case’s D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.
BY LINDA DAVIDSON — THE WASHINGTON POST (I was honestly shocked that the WaPo had not purged there site yet since this was not really a news story - more of a 'where are they now' piece.
Now - he may not be a 'formal' advisor, but the link is there.
One other thought - do NOT let them make a stink about how close the link is between Raines and Obama - and use that flap as a smoke screen to make us forget about Johnson!
It would be niceif there was a tape of the interview.