Aha! And terry MCAwful got a crapload of $$$ from Global Crossing a few years back; birds of a feather...
Burkle’s Company Let Ice Intended For Katrina Victims Melt. USA Today wrote, “FEMA’s ice-supply
efforts after Hurricane Katrina became a subject of public questions after truckers who were paid $800 a day
hauled ice from state to state without unloading, then delivered their cargoes to AmeriCold and other storage
facilities as far away from the Gulf Coast as Maine... In a Sept. 20 letter to FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers,
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Committee on Homeland Security, sought details about
the costly, circuitous trips. The letter questioned ‘whether the federal government is using relief resources efficiently
in order to provide maximum benefits possible to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.’ Amy Swanstrom, a
spokeswoman for Collins, said agency officials had not yet replied. Ashdown, criticizing FEMA’s handling of
ice distribution after Hurricane Katrina, said AmeriCold ‘was part of the team’ FEMA assembled for the work.
‘The contractors that we had weren’t able to get the job done,’ he said.” [USA TODAY, 10/13/05]
RONALD BURKLE AND THE CLINTONS
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The Clinton’s Hypocrisy on Dubai
It’s not just Bill’s $1.2 million Dubai speaking fees that have enriched the Clintons, and its not just the million dollar contribution by the Emir of Dubai to the Clinton Presidential Library that has endeared the Islamic monarchy to them.
It’s much more that that: Bill Clinton was personally responsible for delivering the ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the U.A.E., Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to a partnership with Yucaipa Cos., headed by Bill and Hillary’s uber-fundraiser Ron Burkle.
So Bill Clinton is now an adviser and member of the board of directors of a company that is in partnership with the government of Dubai
Yep...but very little bad press for mcawful and clinton over Global Crossing. But they formed a lynch mob for the Enron execs because he donated to Bush.