http://www.opednews.com/articles/Part-2-Greg-Palast-ntervie-by-Rob-Kall-121106-930.html
Talk a little bit about the Obama Billionaires. You said there are seven of them.
Greg Palast: Yes, Obama has his billionaires,too. And remember, Obama crushed McCain in terms of money from big finance. Banks were the oil companies for the 2008 election and they all went for Obama. And why? First of all, who ever heard of Barack Obama, which means "the one we've been waiting for," right, the blessed one, we've been"well who was waiting for him? Who ever heard of this guy? And not many people go in four years from the cesspool known as the Illinois State Legislature, to the Oval Office. Someone picked him out, and that was Penny Pritzker. Penny Pritzker is a rogue banker billionaire. She ran, she owned something called Superior Bank on the South side of Chicago, which virtually invented the sub-prime loan: the worst racist, steering, predatory lending foreclosures... It was basically a vampire bank. It was so bad that the Feds closed it down (if you can believe it), they actually shut that bank down because of its predatory practices and fined Penny Pritzker four hundred million dollars [$400M] personally. I don't think the federal government's ever fined one person four hundred million dollars, except for Penny Pritzker. But, for Penny that was pennies, because she's worth about 3 billion. She decided to take the local state senator, who represented the victims of her bank...
...A guy named Barry Obama, and move his district to the Gold Coast, where she and the rich people live, including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, and introduced him to the bankers like Robert Rubin, JP Morgan, Dimon, and the rest, and funded him up the wazoo into the U.S. Senate and then on into the campaign trail with the idea, the bankers all joined in, with the idea that, you know, since there was such a public reaction, almost impossible or any Republican to get elected, so what they needed was a guy who would be the bankers toy boy, and they got him. And you know, remember within a couple days of Obama's election he did something quite extraordinary.
He named his economic cabinet. He named Mary Summers, because Summers as Economic Czar because Summers could never be confirmed. He named Tim Geithner, the most incompetent, tin-head Secretary of Treasury we've ever had in America, since Alexander Hamilton, and these guys worked for Robert Rubin of Citibank, who deregulated the banks under Clinton, made a hundred and ten million dollars payoff from Citibank. They couldn't use him because he was dirtied with all the bailout money, so they brought in his little toadies, Geithner and Summers.
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http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/04/obamas_billionaire_finance_cha.html
...at least some of the 1,400 victims who are still owed money seven years after the bank failed say Pritzker is the wrong person for Obama to put in charge of the campaign's finances when part of his campaign is about reforming the banking industry.
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