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To: John who wrote (63781)	1/9/2012 7:14:34 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Wis. man cleared after girl admits lying about sexual assault Jan 9, 2012 kare11.com POLK COUNTY, Wis. - A western Wisconsin man has been cleared of all charges after an 11-year-old girl who had accused him of sexual assault admitted fabricating the whole story. Paul Burritt of Turtle Lake is a driver for a handicapped transportation service. He was taken into custody and charged with sexual assault in mid-December after a client told authorities that Burritt drove her to his home and molested her before driving her home. The case was widely reported in the media, including on kare11.com, because the case was officially charged by the Polk County District Attorney. That is among KARE's criteria for naming suspects in criminal cases. Burritt was arrested, but as deputies continued their investigation they used GPS data to verify the driver's story that he drove his usual route, and did not make advances on the girl. When confronted with the new information the 11-year-old admitted her allegations were false. The child did admit to making the false allegation upon being confronted with the facts. Polk County District Attorney Dan Steffen told WQOW TV that what happened to Burritt is "a prosecutor's worst nightmare." Steffen has dropped the charges against Burritt and is assisting to get the charges cleared from court records. The girl is being referred to juvenile authorities for making the false allegations.

To: John who wrote (63781)	1/9/2012 7:22:42 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

New Chief of Staff: Former Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Money Off Mortgage Defaults Jan 9, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER weeklystandard.com From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments," as the Huffington Post reported. The piece also reported: “Lew made millions at Citi, including a bonus of nearly $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after the bank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue, according to disclosure forms filed with the federal government. The bank is still partly owned by taxpayers.” Of course, one should not begrudge Lew his personal, professional, and financial successes. But one might wonder what kind of message the president is sending with this appointment. “I welcome constructive input from folks in the financial sector. But what we’ve seen so far, in recent weeks, is an army of industry lobbyists from Wall Street descending on Capitol Hill to try and block basic and common-sense rules of the road that would protect our economy and the American people,” Obama said in 2010. “So if these folks want a fight, that’s a fight I’m ready to have.” In announcing Lew today, the president mentioned his previous work at the State Department and in the Clinton administration. Obama did not mention Lew's past of making billions of dollars for Citibank just a few years ago. President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. So of course there should be little surprise that Obama's latest chief of staff, announced today by the president himself, also has deep ties to the financial industry himself.