We have often heard Valerie Jarrett is the
de-facto President. That might not be far from the truth.
Our team has been exhaustively researching
this woman,...again.
We went back over notes, articles and saved
links, as well digging deeper into new documents that we've gotten a hold of.
Valerie Jarret is very powerful.
I am hoping to keep our article brief, but
there is an awful lot to share.
As you may know, Valerie Jarrett is Obama,'s
closest cabinet member. That is no coincidence. She is one who helped get him
where he is.
Sure, he knew all the street radicals, but it
was Valerie who really got his foot in the door. Without her, he'd still be
hustling votes for other "Made" Chicago politicians.
First we'll start with a little personal
backround on Ms Jarrett, then we will lay out the sheer magnitude of the
corruption that infests Chicago and has now taken hold in the White House
itself.
Valerie Bowman Jarrett is an American who was
born in Iran, to two American parents. She lived in Iran until the age of 5,
then London for another year. The family moved to Chicago when Valerie was
almost 7.
From Key Wiki: http://www.keywiki.org/
index.php/Valerie_Jarrett
"Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford
University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in
1981. Jarrett went to the exclusive University of Chicago Lab School before
transferring to her mother’s alma mater, Northfield Mt. Hermon, in western
Massachusetts for the last two years of high school.
"After graduating from the University of
Michigan Law School, she went to work for Chicago’s first African-American
mayor, Harold Washington, whose election many Sixties radicals attributed to
themselves. After Washington’s death in 1987, she stayed on under his
successor, Richard Daley. In City Hall, she and her colleague Susan Sher
recruited Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama, and Jarrett
quickly melded her way into their lives.
Advocacy
Prior to joining the Obama Administration,
Jarrett served as a Director of corporate and not for profit boards,
including Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of
Trustees, and Vice Chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees. She
was a Director of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, The Joyce
Foundation, and a Trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry.
Hiring Michelle
A former Deputy Corporation Counsel for
Finance and Development under Harold Washington, Jarrett continued to work in
the mayor's office into the 1990s.
In 1991, while Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor
Richard Daley, Jarrett hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama.
Finance responsibilities
Valerie Jarrett ran the finances for Obama’s
2004 Senate bid and served as treasurer of Obama's HOPEFUND.
Friendship with Marilyn Katz
Marilyn Katz worked with Students for a
Democratic Society. She is a personal friend of Jarrett's. "
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Ok. Now that you have some background, we are
going to take you on an epic adventure. This adventure is the truth and I
will corroroborate the facts with docs and links.
This adventure will take us beyond Chicago,
beyond the White House , all the way to the mid East and back.
We will introduce you to some of the most
corrupt operatives, foreign Billionaires and many more shady players and
events.
Valerie Jarrett Not only worked for powerful
Mayor, Harold Johnson, but she was also the daughter in law of another
Powerful Chicago politician and Socialite, Vernon Jarrett, a full blown
Communist/Progressive. I won't go into too much detail on him, but his
Communist associations are well documented and easy to find.
After Washington left office, Valerie stayed on
with the new Mayor, Daley.
Through these powerful men and her position
inside the Chicago machine, Valerie soon en massed astounding power.
From Key Wiki:
"Jarrett became the President and Chief
Executive Officer of The Habitat Company on January 31, 2007. She had served
as Executive Vice President of Habitat for 12 years. Prior to that, Jarrett
served for eight years in Chicago government as Deputy Corporation Counsel
for Finance and Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard M.
Daley, and Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development. Before
her city government service, Ms. Jarrett practiced law with two private law
firms. From 1995 to 2003, Jarrett served as Chairman of the Chicago Transit
Board. Jarrett also served as Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock
Exchange from April 2004 through April 2007. She was a Director of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from January 2006 through April 2007.
Jarrett is the chief executive of The Habitat
Company which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and
co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by
the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread
problems. Officials at Woodlawn Preservation say the government didn't give
them enough money to properly maintain Grove Parc. Habitat's Jarrett declined
to comment on Grove Parc in particular but said it is hard to manage
something you don't own. However other Chicago developers and housing
activists said that federal subsidies can be adequate if managed properly.
They said Grove Parc stood apart for how badly it fell into disrepair."
Jarrett pretty much had the whole city under
her control, by the time she was chosen to be in the White House as Obama's
closest Cabinet member. (She was a consideration to take over Obama's vacated
seat, but that got too scandalous for her to be associated with. She had to
stay above the fray, so it wouldn't jeopardize the agenda.)
Jarret didn't join the Obama administration.
The Obama's joined hers!
Jarrett hired Michelle. Then she hired Obama.
Both young lawyers with connections of their own. They were already
associated with the radical Community organizers, had the key placements in
Sidley Law firm, via Bernadine Dohrn and were upwardly mobile in the Chicago
system.
When Jarrett left Daley's office to go to the
University of Chicago Medical center, Jarrett took Michelle with her, while
Obama was to continue in the Daley administration. Obama was being groomed by
them, while Jarrett was advancing herself and keeping Michelle close.
If you look at the departments inside the
Mayors office, the placements in financial institution boards of directors
and her own development corportations, you will understand just how powerful
she really is.
Not a brick got laid, a grant awarded, a loan
got approved, a subsity or a permit got issued in Chicago, unless Jarret
controlled it.
Jarrett made sure she had lawyers at her beck
and call, including the Obama's.
As a matter of fact, Jarrett partnered with another
powerful Chicagoan, Allison Davis, in her development corporations..
Davis was well connected in his own right. He
was the son of Allison Davis Sr., the late University of Chicago professor.
He was the senior partner of Davis, Miner,
Barnhill & Galland , (Remember this firm, it will come up later.)
Davis was also appointed to Illinois State
Board of Investment by Ill Gov Rod Blagojevich.
Together, Jarrett and Davis were a formidable
team with a near monopoly on all Chicago development
Jarrett had bankers, lawyers, investors, and
politicians at her beck and call.
Let's talk about some of the land development
schemes that Jarrett and her corporations operate and some of the players
she's connected to.
The Rezko Connection:
Judicial Watch, www.judicialwatch.org
," has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett , an advisor to Barack
Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect’s transition team, to a
series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated
by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.
According to the documents obtained by
Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served
as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support
for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama
financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama’s former
boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn
Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko
associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and
Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.
(According to press reports, housing projects
operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code
violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing
project was "riddled with problems — including squalid living
conditions…lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")
As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat
Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in
Obama’s former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to
the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered "uninhabitable by
unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage…In 2006, federal
inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale — a
score so bad the buildings now face demolition." Ms. Jarrett refused to
comment to the Globe on the conditions of the complex.
"Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a
product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. And it is no stretch to say
that she was a slumlord," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"We have real concerns about Jarrett’s ethics. Washington already has
plenty of corruption. We don’t need to import more of it from Chicago."
Let's talk about Grove Parc , Habitat,
Lawnsdale & Woodlawn.
Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co.,
which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until 2007 and co-managed an even
larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal
government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama's
US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama's former law firm.
Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used
government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago,
including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after
chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several
apartments.
Antoin "Tony" Rezko, perhaps the
most important fund-raiser for Obama's early political campaigns and a friend
who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko's company used subsidies to
rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama's
district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to
the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six
prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively
contributed more than $175,000 to Obama's campaigns over the last decade and
raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at
least $200,000, by Obama's own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler,
controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago,
which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more
than 1,800 code violations."
VIA: http:// www.brayincandy.com/
id168.html "Grove Parc Plaza was given $4 Mil to upgrade the 500
apartment structure. At that time it was given a failing HUD grade of 82 and
3 yrs and $4 Mil later was declared unlivable w/a grade of 13. It was
declared unlivable due to fire damage, mice running in the halls and roofs
collapsing.
they wouldn’t turn on the heat for the
building during -20 degree temps. She was forced to turn on the heat after
being sued by the courts.
One of her single payer type projects was the
Lawndale Restoration. It was around 1200 apts in 95 buildings. Jarrett poured
over $70 Million govt dollars into these buildings which lasted barely 10
yrs, before they were condemned by the Feds only to start over. This was
supposed to be a private/public partnership when in reality it was a cash
machine for corrupt politicians through Rezko’s money laundering machine.
For her outstanding work as a slum organizer
in the Habitat Corp she made $300K/yr and another $550K in deferred
compensation. She made an additional $350K as a member of a number of Boards
spread around Chicago."
Enter Obama and Rezko: http:// www.noquarterusa.net/blog/
3297/ boston-globe-expose-part-ii -barack-obama-d-slumlord-i
s-aloof-oblivious-dangerou s/
Boston Globe Expose':
Barack Obama was among the many Chicago
residents who shared Daley’s conviction that private companies would make
better landlords than the Chicago Housing Authority ….
He once told the Chicago Tribune that he had
briefly considered becoming a developer of affordable housing. But after
graduating from Harvard Law School in 1991, he turned down a job with Tony
Rezko’s development company, Rezmar , choosing instead to work at the civil
rights law firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, then led by Allison
Davis.
The firm represented a number of nonprofit
companies that were partnering with private developers to build affordable
housing with government subsidies ….
Obama translated that belief into legislative
action as a state senator. In 2001, Obama and a Republican colleague, William
Peterson, sponsored a successful bill that increased state subsidies for
private developers. The law let developers designated by the state raise up
to $26 million a year by selling tax credits to Illinois residents. For each
$1 in credits purchased, the buyer was allowed to decrease his taxable income
by 50 cents.
Obama also cosponsored the original version of
a bill creating an annual fund to subsidize rents for extremely low-income
tenants , although it did not pass until 2005, after he had left the state
Senate.
“He was very passionate about the issues,”
said Julie Dworkin of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, who worked with
Obama on affordable housing issues. “He was someone we could go to and count
on him to be there .”
The developers gave Obama their financial
support. Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko all served on Obama’s campaign finance
committee when he won a seat in the US Senate in 2004 .
Over the next nine years , Rezmar used more
than $87 million in government grants, loans, and tax credits to renovate
about 1,000 apartments in 30 Chicago buildings . Companies run by the
partners also managed many of the buildings, collecting government rent
subsidies.
Rezmar collected millions in development fees
but fell behind on mortgage payments almost immediately . On its first
project, the city government agreed to reduce the company’s monthly payments
from almost $3,000 to less than $500.
As Obama ascended, Rezko became one of his
largest fund-raisers. And in 2005, Rezko and his wife helped the Obamas
purchase the house where they now live.
Eleven of Rezmar’s buildings were located in
the district represented by Obama, containing 258 apartments. The building
without heat in January 1997, the month Obama entered the state Senate, was
in his district. So was Jones’s building with rats in the walls and
Frizzell’s building that lacked insulation. And a redistricting after the
2000 Census added another 350 Rezmar apartments to the area represented by
Obama.
But Obama has contended that he knew nothing
about any problems in Rezmar’s buildings.
Allison Davis, Obama’s former law firm boss,
dabbled in development for years while he worked primarily as a lawyer. He
participated in the development of Grove Parc Plaza. And in 1996, Davis left
his law firm to pursue a full-time career as an affordable housing developer,
fueled by the subsidies from the Daley administration and aided, on occasion,
by Obama himself.
Over roughly the past decade, Davis’s
companies have received more than $100 million in subsidies to renovate and
build more than 1,500 apartments in Chicago, according to a Chicago Sun-Times
tally. In several cases, Davis partnered with Tony Rezko. In 1998 the two men
created a limited partnership to build an apartment building for seniors on
Chicago’s South Side. Obama wrote letters on state Senate stationery
supporting city and state loans for the project." (Remember, Allison
Davis is Jarret's partner and he's Former Davis, Miner, Barnhill &
Galland.)
Summary:
Obama always had an interest in public
housing. In fact, Rezko recruited Obama when Obama was a student at Harvard
Law in order to serve in some capacity in Rezko’s slum landlord enterprise.
Obama as a state legislator passed and
authored bills to provide tax credits and other incentives for private
companies to transform public housing into private-public partnerships that
would yield profit to investors such as Rezko, Allison Davis and Valerie
Jarrett.
Mayor Richard Daley and Obama both
participated in this effort.
Obama passed and authored these laws as
Rezko’s tenements in his district were deteriorating.
Obama even wrote letters to City Commissioners
in order to obtain more revenue for Rezko when residents of Rezko’s tenements
were filing complaints, complaints Obama may or may not have received. As
Obama states, “it is possible” his office received complaints from Rezko’s
slum tenants. Obama wrote these letters for Rezko at a time when City
Commissioners knew of the squalor plaguing Rezko’s slum landlord business.
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