It may be too early to tell, but it will be interesting to see how many news outlets pursue this story tomorrow.
Seems that on the first day of the new congress this year the Senior Senator from California proposed routing $25 billion of TARP funds to FDIC to handle foreclosures... at the same time her husband's real estate firm had landed a plumper-than-usual contract to provide said services to said FDIC.
This is a complicated deal--You have to click through 8 pages to read the whole Washington Times piece. But when you have hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing around, as is the case with TARP and Stimulus spending, they're all complicated deals. It makes it remarkably easy to route a billion here or there to friendly parties. Or to your husband.
Most of us don't do complicated anymore. That's why it's highly unlikely that this story will generate any public outrage.
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