VII: The Hope Pope and his Trilateral Money Machine 273Nicole Lamb-Hale $100,000 MI Foley & Lardner
Andrew Schapiro $100,000 NY Mayer Brown
Charles C. Adams Jr. $50,000 Switzerland Hogan & Hartson
David Burd $50,000 DC Arnold & Porter
Tom Cole $50,000 IL Sidley Austin
Michael H. Dardzinski $50,000 China Reed Smith
Howard W. Gutman $50,000 MD Williams & Connolly
Jeff Horwitz $50,000 NY Proskauer Rose
David C. Jacobson $50,000 IL Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Hrishi Karthikeyan $50,000 DC Covington & Burling
Ronald Kirk $50,000 TX Vinson & Elkins
William T. Lake $50,000 DC WilmerHale
Edward Lazarus $50,000 CA Akin Gump
Jack Levin $50,000 IL Kirkland & Ellis
Kenneth G. Lore $50,000 DC Bingham McCutchen
Charles B. Ortner $50,000 NY Proskauer Rose
Susan Pravda $50,000 MA Foley & Lardner
Paul N. Roth $50,000 NY Schulte Roth & Zabel
John Schmidt $50,000 IL Mayer Brown
Robert M. Sussman* $50,000 DC Latham & Watkins
Kathryn Thomson $50,000 VA Sidley Austin
Barry B. White $50,000 MA Foley Hoag
Steven M. Zager $50,000 TX Akin Gump
Robert S. Litt n/a MD Arnold & Porter
- Robert M. Sussman retired as a partner on December 31, 2007
Source: Obama for America, Center for Responsive Politics, Public Citizen, from USA Today, April
16, 2008
OBAMA A CREATURE OF GOLDMAN SACHS, TOP OIL SPECULATORS
David Brooks of the New York Times, an avid chronicler of oligarchical affairs, discovered with
some surprise that Obama is far more venal even than his Republican rival, Senator McCain.
Brooks also found that one of the most important centers of bundling for Barky was the infamous
Wall Street investment house Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, along with Morgan Stanley, was
responsible for the creation of the London ICE exchange or IntercontinentalExchange, the offshore
vehicle which now handles approximately one half of the oil futures contracts in the world.
Goldman Sachs co-founded ICE as a means of escaping even the desultory regulatory regime of the
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in favor of the nonexistent regulatory regime in
Great Britain. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that Goldman Sachs alone is responsible
for about 40% of the oil speculation which has doubled the price of oil for American consumers of
petroleum products over the last year. With Goldman Sachs employees checking in as Obama’s
biggest bundlers, we leave it to the imagination of the reader whether Obama will bring much
enthusiasm to the task of reining in this gang of hyenas if he ever gets to the White House. Brooks
wrote: