Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (65 page)

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Authors: Michelle Malkin

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Malkin, Michelle.

Culture of corruption : Obama and his team of tax cheats, crooks, & cronies / by Michelle Malkin.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Epigraph

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

* BONUS CHAPTER FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION *

CHAPTER 1 - ONWS

THE RISE AND FALL OF “ DOLLAR BILL” RICHARDSON

DRIVING TOM DASCHLE

PERFORMANCE CZAR NANCY KILLEFER TAKES A DIVE

BAILING OUT AT TREASURY

EPA DEPUTY NOMINEE JON CANNON’ S ROUGH WATERS

CHARLES FREEMAN: AN UN - INTELLIGENT CHOICE

CHAPTER 2 - BITTER HALF

VALERIE JARRETT: GODMOTHER, CONFIDANTE, SLUMLORD

MRS. O. SCREWS THE POOR

DOCTORING THE BIDDING PROCESS

EARMARKS AND EDIFICE COMPLEX

CORPORATE PERKS FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE

THE OBAMAS AND THE AYERS: VERY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS

CHAPTER 3 - VETTING THE VEEP

MBNA: MAKING BIDEN’ S NEPOTISM APPARENT

MEET THE RAINMAKERS

THE BIDEN FAMILY AND TRIAL LAWYERS: BFF!

BIDEN’S SLEAZY REZKO CONNECTION

RIDING THE RAILS

CHAPTER 4 - MEET THE MESS

CIA INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR LEON PANETTA: LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND ENTRENCHED

COMMERCE SECRETARY GARY LOCKE: CHINAGATE-TAINTED, INTEREST - CONFLICTED CRONY

HUD’ S NO. 2 MAN RON SIMS: ENEMY OF TRANSPARENCY

ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: CRIME-CODDLING CORPORATE LAWYER

U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE RON KIRK: TAX CHEAT

HHS SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: THE NOMINEE WHO COULDN’T COUNT

LABOR SECRETARY HILDA SOLIS: SELF-LOBBYING UNION LACKEY

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY RAY LAHOOD: EARMARK MAN

EPA CHIEF LISA JACKSON: CLEAN AS SHE SAYS, NOT AS SHE CLEANS

CHAPTER 5 - BACKROOM BUDDIES

CAROL BROWNER: ETHICALLY CHALLENGED ENERGY CZAR

ADOLFO CARRIÓN : ETHICALLY STAINED URBAN CZAR

NANCY DEPARLE: HEALTH CZAR WITH DEEP CORPORATE TIES

STEVE “ CHOOCH ” RATTNER: THE AUTO CZAR’S SHADY TINSELTOWN TRADE

TECHNOLOGY CZAR VIVEK KUNDRA: PETTY THIEF, CLUELESS CHIEF

CHAPTER 6 - MONEY MEN

LARRY THE HEDGE FUND MANAGER

TIMMY THE TAX - CHEATING, BAILOUT - BUNGLING BUREAUCRAT

IN CAHOOTS WITH CITICORP

THE SUBPRIME GANG

RAHM - BO THE RICH

LOUIS THE VACUUM CLEANER

GARY THE GOLDMAN SACHS GUY

JIMMY THE MUNI BOND MAN

GEORGE THE GENEROUSLY PAID GENERAL COUNSEL

MARK THE CORPORATE LOBBYIST

CHAPTER 7 - SEIU

THE BLAGO - SEIU - OBAMA CONVERGENCE

LIVING LARGE IN L . A .

A SEA OF PURPLE PAYOFFS

“ THE PERSUASION OF POWER ”

CHAPTER 8 - OBAMACORN

SEE NO EMBEZZLEMENT, HEAR NO EMBEZZLEMENT, SPEAK NO EMBEZZLEMENT

OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB

TAX EVADERS ‘R’ US

MUSCLE FOR THE MONEY

CHAPTER 9 - THE CLINTONS

LIAR, LIAR, PANTSUIT ON FIRE

TRANSPARENCY AND TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

COSMIC TIES

ADVENTURES IN KAZAKHSTAN

PAYING AND PLAYING AT HOME

THE BOTTOM OF HILLARY’ S BARREL

EPILOGUE

* AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION *

Acknowledgements

NOTES

INDEX

Copyright Page

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