Clinton Campaign Manager Was Director For Failed Subprime Lender

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  |   March 29, 2008 09:58 PM


Newsday is reporting that Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, served on the board of a lending company that engaged in practices that the New York senator is now criticizing on the campaign trail:

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties -- a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.


Williams, who took over the reins of Clinton's campaign in early February, served as a director on the board of the Woodbury, N.Y.-based Delta Financial Corp. from April 2000 until the firm declared bankruptcy in December, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.

She was originally recruited by former New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, a Delta consultant. Her assignments were to create a new code of "best practices," and to improve the company's crisis management operation in the wake of state and federal predatory lending probes that resulted in a $12 million payout to borrowers.

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In this pensive pose Maggie must be pondering the inaugural ball gown for Hillary she'll make from the Oval Office drapes.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:52 PM on 03/31/2008

All of these are signs of what would occur on a National Scale:

* Inability to manage finances.

*Inability to surround yourself with high-quality leaders.

*Inability to avoid scandals of virtually every sort.

*Inability to tell the truth.

Hillary CANNOT be our President...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:46 PM on 03/31/2008

Neither can Obama. They are more alike than different. McCain 08

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:22 PM on 03/31/2008

McCain is Bush III:

Try multiplying an inflation adjusted $12 Billion a month @ 100 years...

Who can afford that?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:47 PM on 03/31/2008

McCain '08... His VP in '09

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:02 PM on 03/31/2008

I don't get it. Maggie's o.k. with the Pennsylvania Democrats but Senator Obama isn't? What gives Governor?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:25 PM on 03/31/2008

I think Hillary has promised him something, money for housing, money for highways, a high level position.... Something big. The mayor, Michael Nudder, eluded to that on one of the Sunday shows, he said something about Hillary and getting money for roads. I think she has promised a lot of them a lot of things and now she is going to lose and WILL NOT be able to pay up!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:04 PM on 03/31/2008

Companies cannot make large contributions to Hillary or Barack. When you register on their website to contribute, it asks the name of your employer and what you do for a living. That information categorizes the industry the campaign contributions are coming from.

Thus, if 1000 individuals work for oil companies, it is categorized as coming from oil companies.

I am a banker; I will be categorized with all bankers that contributed to Obama's campaign.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:01 PM on 03/31/2008
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Hillary Clinton can't even run a campaign decently.

HOW ON EARTH do people think she could run this country?

I'm not even sure she should hold an elected office at this point, let alone the Presidency.

Drop out now, Hillary! Maintain at least a shred of dignity, if not for yourself, for the rest of the women you claim to represent.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 PM on 03/31/2008

Semi-off topic.

Huff Post needs a new Maggie Williams photo. She looks like she is getting ready to puch someone in the face.

Plus, look at the guy behind her. That haircut/moustache combo is at least 10 years old.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:07 PM on 03/31/2008

Q. What's up with these Arkansas politicians not knowing when to leave?

Mike Huckabee had this same issue and was saying these same things a few weeks before he dropped out.

The question that Hillary needs to answer is how can she win?

What is it that she is going to do to win?

Even if she wins all the rest of the states she still looses.

What is the point here?


Is she a DEM or not?


I guarantee she will run INDY if she doesn't get the nomination or VP.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 PM on 03/31/2008

Not only that, but one of the causes of the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis was Bill Clinton's 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act. Repealing Glass-Steagal, which was created as part of the New Deal to solve a similar mortgage foreclosure crisis, removed the regulations and safety nets that were designed to prevent this kind of thing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 PM on 03/31/2008

Hillary the
liar
hypocrite
fabricator
Hillary the divisive

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 03/31/2008

Obama too! They are more alike than different. McCain 08

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:23 PM on 03/31/2008
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Seems like a whole lot of you can't read.
Maggie Williams was part of a damage control effort after the fact. How does that make her corrupt?
As I said earlier, why would anyone want to hire an advisor who had never had any direct experience in their field? Former insiders can bring a lot to the table. Look at Arianna Huffington and how far she has come.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:01 AM on 03/31/2008

She was enlisted in 2000 to create a code ""best practices," . She did a great work. Just ask those who face foreclosure .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:38 AM on 03/31/2008
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That's an interesting way of reading it...

The way I read it (and I assume the way most people read it) is that she came in after they'd already been in trouble for predatory lending practices to try to help them develop new best practices, but they continued to be predatory lenders. It's not damage control if you become complicit in continuing the damage.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:12 PM on 03/31/2008
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Well, I guess she was on the board of directors, so she may have known that her "best practices" recommendations were being overridden. But then again, she may not have.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:32 PM on 03/31/2008

Is anyone even remotely surprised?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:58 AM on 03/31/2008

They're all corrupt. 1789. A very good year.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:58 AM on 03/31/2008
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So Maggie Williams was a Director for failed sub-prime lender....
Why are we discussing this ....while ignoring this.....

Penny Pritzker-Obama"s finance chair & her STRONG connection to the subprime loan scandal.
"Need proof that the press is soft on Barack Obama? Then why didn"t mainstream journalists pick up on the connection between Obama"s finance chair to the sub-prime mess?

http://amok.asianweek.com/2008/02/28/obamas-campaign-finance-chair-has-links-to-subprime-debacle/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Pritzker

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4D71E3CF934A3575BC0A9679C8B63

"Partnership Frays After An S.& L. Fails; In Laying Blame, Trying to Sort Out One Deal Maker"s Complicated Legacy" by DAVID BARBOZA, NYT, 8/7/01

Now¦all his votes in Congress on subprime mortgage issue are beginning to make more sense¦
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser

The Nation, "Subprime Obama" by Max Fraser 1/24/08 Post 2/11/08 issue
"Obama"s disappointing foreclosure plan stems ¦


Also, why aren't we discussing these items?

http://www.stop-obama.org
or
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/03/24/barack-i-didnt-know-obama/#more-1919

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 AM on 03/31/2008

Because, if you can make more than one click, you will find that this has all been debunked long ago. I find it amusing how followers of Penn keep riding whatever line they feed you without caring how foolish you may look in integrity. As long as it helps Hillary in her quest for destruction. Well I guess if I had latched onto the cash cow that is Clinton management I would keep pushing the sheep also. What better way to get you zombies to pay off the CANCELLED coronation party.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:48 PM on 03/31/2008

Did you ever wonder why the MSM doesn't pick up the above linked news stories??

Because they aren't true!

I know it's hard for you right wing or Hillary nut jobs to accept the fact that Obama is winning.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:58 PM on 03/31/2008

Stop trying to google bomb this crap. This is all junk, every last bit of it. I'm flagging this as abusive because it's obvious you're abusing the comment system on this website to get the pagerank up on this.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 03/31/2008
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This doesn't reek of panic at all, does it?

The sky is FALLING! The SKY is falling! THE sky is falling! The sky IS falling!

No matter how much you repeat it or where you place the emphasis, it's still not true.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:54 PM on 03/31/2008

"Birds of a feather flock together" All the people that the Clintons surround themselves with are corrupt.That's why she's losing,everything she's done is comming back to her. Her supporters say that Hillary is so strong because of all she's been through ....Ha!.....I say she's just shameless,she doesnt care what she has done ,she has no conscience.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 AM on 03/31/2008

Yep, birds of feather. Just like Rev. Wright and Barack Obama, right??????

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 AM on 03/31/2008

And who are you? God

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:32 PM on 03/31/2008

Hey, folks - just go to your search bar and type in "Clinton campaign fund scams" and see what comes up.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:31 PM on 03/30/2008

Yes and type in "I've been abducted by Aliens" and see what comes up.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:13 AM on 03/31/2008
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Hey, it's a picture of ChrisS13! Such shameless self-promotion...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 03/31/2008

we all know what a smear camp she has, I just don`t get her dumb supporters??could they be anymore BLIND???

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:28 PM on 03/31/2008
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