Emails: Obama officials enriched former firms, possibly themselves with auto bailout

Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 9/5/2012

Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that former senior Treasury Department officials who orchestrated the 2009 auto industry bailout enriched their former employers and likely made personal financial gains from parts of the deal they negotiated. At issue is the termination of pension plans belonging to 20,000 non-union […]

Meet the real workers Obama screwed over

“How can our own federal government pick winners and losers amongst its own citizens?”

 

Michelle Malkin 8/8/2012

My column today contrasts the phony Romney-killed-a-steelworker’s-wife fable from Obama’s sleazy SuperPAC with the actual stories of economic havoc that Obama’s union-pandering administration wrought on thousands of Delphi workers.

A reminder of what I wrote […]

Did White House Commit Perjury About GM Bailout?

Editorial Investors Business Daily 8/7/2012

Cronyism: In recent days, the scope of the Obama White House’s cronyism has become shockingly apparent. A trove of emails shows it deprived thousands of workers of their pensions to benefit unions, then lied about it.

The news site The Daily Caller has obtained internal government emails that show the […]

Emails: Geithner, Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers’ pensions

Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 8/7/2012

Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.

The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, […]

House Oversight Committee likely to investigate White House for treating non-union employees worse than unionized after GM bailout

Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 3/7/2011

Republican Reps. Mike Turner of Ohio and Dan Burton of Indiana are asking House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, to dig into the Obama administration’s decision to cut more than 20,000 private-sector workers’ pensions and eliminate their health and life insurance plans during the General Motors (GM) […]

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