Obama's Ex-"Car Czar"Settles Corruption Charges for $10 Million

The Seattle Times

The investment banker who helped lead the Obama administration’s auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10 million to settle influence-peddling allegations in New York.

Former “car czar”Steven Rattner admitted no wrongdoing as part of the deal,which was announced by state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday.

Cuomo’s office [...]

Van Jones and the Coming Civil War

Ben Barrack,FloydReports.com

Many have strongly believed – with Rush Limbaugh leading the charge for more than a year now – that Barack Obama has been intentionally destroying the U.S. economy. Now,thanks to Obama’s concession that allowing the current tax rates to expire would harm the middle class,coupled with the words of [...]

Obama's Auto Czar to Pay $6.2M SEC Settlement —More Charges Filed

The Seattle Times

The Obama administration’s former auto czar agreed Thursday to pay $6.2 million to settle civil charges over his role in an influence-peddling scandal involving New York state’s public pension fund.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement with investment banker Steven Rattner. As part of the settlement,Rattner [...]

Ex-Car Czar:Obama "Out to Get"GM

Chris Stirewalt,Fox News

Former Obama administration car czar Steven Rattner is coming out with a new book that depicts him swashbuckling through the financial crisis and also shows Obama as “out to get”the car companies and the administration making political decisions about how to deal with bankrupt automakers GM and Chrysler…

Key [...]

White House Czars won’t testify to Congress

By Stephen Dinan

The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama’s policy czars to testify before Congress –a decision senators said goes against the president’s promises of transparency and openness and treads on Congress’constitutional mandate to investigate the administration’s actions.