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To: Ruffian who wrote (30502)	12/18/2008 2:59:43 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Didn't you read about it? Obama cleared himself of any wrongdoing. If only Obama's teflon predecessor, Gambino, had thought of that.

To: Ruffian who wrote (30502)	2/23/2009 9:37:51 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

Who is the Guy in Our Basement? .....the odd case of Rep. Rosa DeLauro and the fellow that lives in her basement, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. It has been reported that Mr. Emanuel has been residing in DeLauro’s basement for the last five years - while he was a fellow U.S. Congressman and the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The case presents a number of problems for the pair, aside from simply highlighting the truly incestuous nature of Washington D.C. politics, as you’ll see. The DeLauro townhouse is, apparently, judged by D.C. officials as being a single family dwelling, and thus, not able to be rented out. Fortunately for Rahm, and unlike most of his fellow ’men of the people’, he hasn’t paid any rent. DeLauro and her husband, Democratic polling bigwig Stan Greenberg, rebutted the charge by asserting that they aren’t landlords, and that Mr. Emanuel has just been a house guest - for five years. Of course, it turns out that there was a reason Emanuel’s couch-crashing was no big deal for the Greenberg-DeLauro clan: Emanuel wasn’t paying rent, but he was shepherding DCCC polling work to his roomie to the tune of $240,000. One question that hasn’t been effectively answered is this: How is the Emanuel-DeLauro scandal fundamentally different from the Tom Daschle scandal, where a provided service with a monetary value was given to someone else without payment?.... ....Rahm Emanuel - the man who is now the feared White House Chief of Staff - was an employee of Freddie Mac when it was fined $50 million for “deliberate fraud” and #13 on the list of politicians who took money from Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - some $51,750. He has lived rent-free in Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s basement for five years while tossing nearly a quarter-million dollars in work to her husband. Emanuel, along with John Murtha, Charlie Rangel, and Barney Frank all beat the drum about the Republican “culture of corruption” in 2006, ultimately led to their takeover of the U.S. Congress. While questions linger about Rahm’s rent-free arrangement, scandal swirls around Murtha’s lobbyist friends, Rangel’s property deals, and the fact that Barney Frank’s boyfriend is a Fannie Mae bigwig who prospered from the situation they caused. everydayrepublican.com Hat Tip: Tom Clarke