Wednesday, June 15, 2011

THIS FRAUDULENT ADMINISTRATION IS DISGUSTING...


Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs



By FRED SCHULTE, JOHN ALOYSIUS FARRELL AND JEREMY BORDEN -- IWATCH NEWS | 6/15/11 4

President Barack Obama is greeted by David Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, right, and Toronto Mayor David Miller. | AP Photo
David Jacobson, right, now the ambassador to Canada, arranged meetings with bundlers. | AP Photo Close
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.

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