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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Uh oh, Rahm is 'furious'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Uh oh, Rahm is 'furious':

Uh oh, Rahm is 'furious'

The Sun-Times' Fran Spielman reports that the Little Emperor is "furious." Why? Because people keep bringing up this Amer Ahmad thing and the Lois Scott connection. Remember, Rahm appointed Ahmad to be his comptroller based on CFO Scott's recommendation. Then we learned that Ahmad was indicted by the feds for money laundering, bribery and other public corruption charges related to his previous position as deputy treasurer in the state of Ohio. Scott, it turns out, had some nefarious dealingswith Ahmad.
Writes Spielman:
A furious Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday likened media attacks on his Chief Financial Officer Lois Scott to the “drive by hits” that drove him out of the “crap town” that is Washington D.C.
Wow! Such language. So that's why Rahm left the White House staff. Drive by hits in a crap