Rahm Emanuel Made $18 Million and Connections In Banking

In late 1998, while Washington was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Rahm Emanuel, a departing senior political aide to President Bill Clinton, ventured out to an elegant restaurant in Dupont Circle for something of a job interview.

John Simpson, who ran the Chicago office of the investment banking boutique Wasserstein Perella & Company, had flown to Washington to meet with Mr. Emanuel at the behest of Mr. Simpson's boss, Bruce Wasserstein, a major Democratic donor and renowned Wall Street dealmaker who had gotten to know Mr. Emanuel.

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[Coinyer101]

another washington insider. rich,too. banking ties. what's new?

[canucklivinginUSA]

Isn't this old news. I am seriously getting fed up with HuffPo recycling non-stories