FED: Federal Reserve to hire lobbyist to bolster its image. These goons must be worried. [Archive]

MRoCkEd

06-06-2009, 08:40 AM

The Fed Is Worried About Ron Paul (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/027097.html)
The central bank of the United States government--the Federal Reserve--thinks it needs a lobbyist (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZjQKyLci1AM&refer=us), to work in Congress against Ron Paul. The Bloomberg story doesn't mention Ron, but instead interviews some ex-Fed hack in DC. But it is Ron Paul the Fed fears. What a great achievement of Ron's, to make what Andrew Jackson called "the Monster," the all-powerful, globe-dominating, special-interest funding, bankster-enabling, dollar-depreciating, business cycle-generating central bank worry about its image, for the first time since 1913. His presidential campaign alerted millions to the fact that we are being ripped-off by the Fed. His Audit the Fed (http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/hr1207home.php) bill (190 cosponsors!) scares the heck out of them. And wait until his End the Fed (http://www.amazon.com/End-Fed-Ron-Paul/dp/0446549193/lewrockwell) manifesto is published this summer! They'll need a whole corps of lobbyists, not that they will be able to protect what is in essence a criminal counterfeiting gang. (Thanks to Jacob Orlowitz)

Digg (http://digg.com/politics/Fed_hiring_veteran_lobbyist_iTo_Combat_HR_1207)

Bossobass

06-07-2009, 01:29 PM

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Over at Treasury, Linda Robertson was being courted by [ENRON]. She was the department's liaison with Congress. Lo and behold, when the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 emerged, energy trading was exempt from the very regulation covering other traders, and Ms. Robertson was heading up Enron's Washington office.

Enron became then Governor Bush's largest corporate contribution, and its law firm, Vince & Elkins, wasn't far behind. When Bush won the White House, the parade of Enron employees, advisors and lobbyists who joined the administration was astounding.

In November 2000, Robertson was hired by Enron Corporation as vice president and general manager of federal government affairs. After the scandal in which Enron executives were accused of lying about profits and debts, Robertson was asked to close the Washington office in February 2002
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Prior to joining Enron, Robertson spent nearly eight years as a senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department, serving as assistant treasury secretary for legislative affairs and public liaison in the Clinton administration. She also worked for the House Ways and Means Committee and as a lobbyist specializing in finance, tax, corporate, energy and technology issues.

Linda Robertson ... headed the Washington lobbying office of Enron Corp... Robertson [also] served under Treasury Secretaries Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin and Lloyd Bentsen

DeLay's daughter, Dani Ferro, played a role in arranging access for corporations that gave money to DeLay's project and earned fees for planning fundraising events. On Oct. 10, 2001, Ferro called Enron's Washington-based lobbyists to remind them of an upcoming fundraising event in Florida. "As part of platinum sponsorship, we have the opportunity to have a dinner with Congressman DeLay either here or in Houston," said an e-mail from lobbyist Carolyn Cooney to colleague Linda Robertson. "Dani wants to know" when to schedule it, Cooney added.

“[The Fed's] Hiring a former lobbyist from Enron will surely make one wonder.”

So what are these banksters hiding? Just who got the trillions of dollars? How much was shipped off shore? How much cash, that was given to failed financial institutions, was used to buy solvent healthy ones?

Democrats said the documents showed how Enron wielded its clout -- by, among other things, backing specific nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and meeting with high administration officials on energy policy -- before collapsing into bankruptcy protection in December in a wave of accounting scandals. Republicans pointed out that Enron also enjoyed access to high-level appointees in Bill Clinton's administration.

"It is not clear that [administration officials] are fully committed to our open access issues," Enron lobbyist Linda Robertson wrote Lay. "Their lack of zeal for open access, while totally unacceptable, is understandable given that the West Coast power crisis has presented the administration with difficult and unique political issues."

"More aggressive action by the FERC on both market power issues and pricing issues would give the administration enormous political cover and would allow them to redefine the debate," the Enron lobbyists wrote.

The Political Operatives

Linda Robertson

Top Treasury official in Clinton administration, [then] Enron’s chief Washington lobbyist.

The lawmakers

Sen. Phil Gramm

Texas senator received $101,350 in Enron contributions since 1989; pushed through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which further deregulated energy commodity trading, allowing Enron to operate an unregulated power auction that quickly gained control over a significant share of California’s electricity and natural gas market.

From: Chris Long

To: Mark Taylor, Linda Robertson, Lisa Yoho, Tom Briggs

Sent: 12/12/2000 at 11:04

Mark - Treasury just minutes ago sent this compromise language to the CEA bill to Gramm’s staff. It is my understanding from Treasury that the swap exemption is expanded slightly to say that if you are trading on a facility (MTF) and you are trading on principle-to-principle basis among eligible contract participants you are no longer subject anti-fraud and anti-manipulation as contained in Sec. 107 of the House passed legislation. This would be good for us. Ken is in London, so can you take a quick look at the attached language and tell me if you concur.

Also, we need to take a look at the new Sec. 4 to see if it causes any problems.

They may cut a deal as early as this afternoon!

Linda Robertson: A top Clinton administration Treasury Department official, Robertson became Enron's chief lobbyist in Washington.

Where the hell is Aravoth? We need a vid to expose this Fed lobbying ploy!!! It needs to picture every member of Congress who currently is not a co-sponsor or who has expressed open opposition to HR 1207.

We need to put together a petition that can be circulated, signed and sent to every member of Congress immediately, making it known that we will be watching who takes bribes from lobbyists to oppose legislation for open books on taxpayer funded loans, loan guarantees, financial services grants and manipulation of US monetary policy.
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