Posted on 01/09/2013 2:31:56 PM PST by JohnPDuncan
Jacob J. Lew, President Obama’s presumed choice to lead the Treasury Department, has close ties to Wall Street, receiving more than $900,000 in bonus cash from a division of Citigroup just as the company was getting bailed out by U.S. taxpayers.
The arrangement, previously reported by The Washington Times, received little scrutiny after Mr. Lew joined the Obama administration in 2009, first as a deputy in the State Department and later as Mr. Obama’s budget chief and chief of staff.
Mr. Obama has criticized hefty bonuses paid out to Wall Street executives. In his State of the Union address last year, he said, “Banks had made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money.”
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Trillions in taxpayer money has now gone to BANKERS,
terrorists, and Communist/Marxist friends of the Tyrant.
NASA needed only 20 billion, but had to be destroyed.
Where do these guys come from? Most of his cabinet is dirty in some form, oh I forgot, it’s the Chicago way.
Nothing draws more unity among all social and economic classes in America than accomplishments in the space program. The Obama takes second stage to nobody.
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