{"id":163,"date":"2008-10-08T08:09:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T20:36:49","slug":"bail-out-influence-and-the-looters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Bail-out, Influence and the Looters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The looting will not stop until the Citizens of the United States lay siege to our own Government, which has been hijacked by the Corporations and Corrupt Elected Officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aside from President George W. Bush here are some the top conspirators in the looting of the US Treasury using the &#8220;bail-out&#8221; as a front.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bribes paid to them are in the form of\u00a0Campaign\u00a0Contributions shown below.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama Sen. D-IL 2007-2008 Contributions $16,369,460<br \/>\n<\/strong>Top 5 Single Largest Contributors<br \/>\nGoldman Sachs $748,880<br \/>\nUniversity of California $625,911<br \/>\nJPMorgan Chase &amp; Co $493,469<br \/>\nHarvard University $473,669<br \/>\nCitigroup Inc $467,849<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Securities &amp; Investment was Obama&#8217;s 3rd Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>McCain Sen. R-AZ 2007-2008 Contributions $4,389,028<br \/>\n<\/strong>Top 5 Single Largest Contributors<br \/>\nMerrill Lynch $306,813<br \/>\nCitigroup Inc $277,251<br \/>\nGoldman Sachs $234,345<br \/>\nMorgan Stanley $234,272<br \/>\nAT&amp;T Inc $192,557<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Securities &amp; Investment was McCain&#8217;s 3rd Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Rep. D-MA 2007-2008 Contributions $1,716,593<br \/>\n<\/strong>Top 5 Single Largest Contributors<\/p>\n<p>Brown Brothers Harriman &amp; Co $29,300<br \/>\nManulife Financial $15,000<br \/>\nRoyal Bank of Scotland $13,800<br \/>\nAmerican Bankers Assn $11,300<br \/>\nAmerican Society of Appraisers $11,000<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Securities &amp; Investment was\u00a0Frank&#8217;s\u00a02nd Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pelosi Rep. D-CA 2007 &#8211; 2008 Contributions $2,365,432<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top 5 Single Largest Contributors<br \/>\nAmgen Inc $42,050<br \/>\nAkin, Gump et al $41,050<br \/>\nE&amp;J Gallo Winery $18,400<br \/>\nTorchmark Corp $16,000<br \/>\nPatton Boggs LLP $13,900<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Securities &amp; Investment was\u00a0Pelosi&#8217;s\u00a02nd Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dodd Sen. D-CT 2007-2008 Contributors $8,500,625<\/strong><br \/>\nCitigroup Inc $314,694<br \/>\nSAC Capital Partners $282,000<br \/>\nUnited Technologies $263,400<br \/>\nRoyal Bank of Scotland $229,950<br \/>\nAmerican International Group $224,678<br \/>\nOverall, Securities &amp; Investment was\u00a0Dodd&#8217;s Single Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reid Sen. D-NV 2007-2008 Contributions $11,094,275<\/strong><br \/>\nMGM Mirage $150,750<br \/>\nStation Casinos $94,200<br \/>\nHarrah&#8217;s Entertainment $86,950<br \/>\nBoyd Gaming $76,349<br \/>\nSimmons Cooper LLC $73,400<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Securities &amp; Investment was\u00a0Reid&#8217;s\u00a04th Largest Contributor<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend taking a look at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/candlist.php?congno=110\">Open Secrets<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/person\/senators\">Open Congress<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source opensecrets.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D163&amp;text=Bail-out%2C+Influence+and+the+Looters&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The looting will not stop until the Citizens of the United States lay siege to our own Government, which has been hijacked by the Corporations and Corrupt Elected Officials.\u00a0 Aside from President George W. Bush here are some the top conspirators in the looting of the US Treasury using the &#8220;bail-out&#8221; as a front.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The bribes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=163#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[203,208,206,205,209,202,204,207,175,108],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}