Jon Corzine — under federal and congressional investigation following accusations that the securities firm he headed illegally took clients’ funds before collapsing — is among President Obama’s top re-election campaign bundlers, raising at least $500,000, according to the campaign’s filing Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
Corzine, the former New Jersey senator and governor, and former head of Goldman Sachs, is among 127 individuals (dubbed “volunteer fundraisers” in the parlance used by Obama’s Chicago campaign) credited with raising more than $500,000 through the first quarter of 2012.
Corzine is being investigated by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission; he told Congress under oath last year that, while serving as chief executive at MF Global, he knew nothing about clients’ missing funds.
Read more at RealClearPolitics.com. By Alexis Simendinger.
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A crook supporting another crook.
Indeed. Crooked Chicago politics at its’ finest. Just like the untold $MILLIONS of untraceable internet donations to Obama’s 2008 campaign.
Another reason to fill our fed penntentiarys to the limit with those who supported this Fraud in the WH…..