Monday, February 4, 2008

Fact Checking Clinton & Obama

Senator Hillary Clinton claims to have spent her entire career putting her Yale Law School degree to work for the common good. What are the facts?

Clinton spent less than a year working at the Children's Defense Fund, she spent most of her career at one of Arkansas's most prestigious law firms and on corporate boards, she served on the board of of the Legal Services Corp and corporate boards for Wal-Mart and TCBY

For her work at Madison Guaranty a failed Savings & Loan at the heart of the Whitewater Investigation---the billing records mysteriously disappeared but found mysteriously in a White House storage area after the investigation had ended.

Senator Barack Obama cultivates to have a squeaky clean image as a Civil Rights Attorney---he has failed to mention his work for a decade at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland a Chicago based law firm that helped to craft out housing deals involving millions of dollars in public subsidies. Among some of those involved in the shady deals was his long time pal Tony Rezko, who donated some $60,000 to Senator Obama and was involved in the purchase of Obama's home.

These days, Tony Rezko is in jail after his bond was recently revoked, awaiting Trial on charges of mail fraud, money laundering and attempted extortion. On January 28 I wrote about Tony Rezko pictured alongside of President and Mrs. Clinton.