Nearly 200 of Obama's biggest donors land plum govt jobs or advisory posts

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.

Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.

After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House, helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts.

More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1PNMNazjv


Good reporting from Politico for a change.

[squarepusher]

attending a social even qualifies in the 200 figure the article mentions

[pacelli]

How is it possible for an individual to "collect" more than 500k in donations and not get investigated by the FEC for exceeding the legal donation limit?

Does anyone see a problem here?

[specsaregood]

How is it possible for an individual to "collect" more than 500k in donations and not get investigated by the FEC for exceeding the legal donation limit?

Does anyone see a problem here?

It is called "bundling". Romney uses the method extensively as well. Hillary too, in fact all the big-time establishment folk.

[enhanced_deficit]

So the SWCbag is just like the dDGbag.

Many Clinton charity donors also got State Department awards under Hillary

By Sarah Westwood | April 23, 2015 | 5:00 am

Twenty-two of the 37 corporations nominated for a prestigious State Department award — and six of the eight ultimate winners — while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State were also donors to the Clinton family foundation.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ma...rticle/2563476

[Ronin Truth]

That's just how it works, folks. Business as usual. Is this a great system, or what?