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361 “lawsuits against Countrywide”: Liptor, “Ex-Countrywide Leaders Profit on Loans Gone Bad.”
362 “Countrywide obscured the”: “Brown Sues Countrywide for Mortgage Deception,” Office of the Attorney General, June 25, 2008, http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1582.
363 the company has telemarketers: Liptor, “Ex-Countrywide Leaders Profit on Loans Gone Bad.”
364 “whole loan losses”: Ackerman, “Countrywide Execs Get New Home at PennyMac.”
365 “role model”: Liptor, “Ex-Countrywide Leaders Profit on Loans Gone Bad.”
12. PAY TO PLAY: NO-BID CONTRACTS EXCHANGED FOR CAMPAIGN CASH
366 “act of official”: Brad Bumsted and Walter F. Roche Jr., “Ending ‘Pay-to-Play’ a Top Issue for GOP,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 10, 2009, www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_606620.html.
367 Take a look: Tracie Mauriello, “Rendell Contributor under Investigation,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 7, 2009, www.post-gazette.com/pg/09007/940033-85.stm.
368 It seems his company: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Richardson Won’t Pursue Cabinet Post,” New York Times, January 4, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/us/politics/05richardson.html.
369 He also granted: David A. Patten, “Burris Donated Thousands to Blagojevich; Won Contracts,” Newsmax.com, December 30, 2008, www.newsmax.com/insidecover/roland_burris_donations/2008/12/30/166509.html.
370 He gave Blagojevich: Ibid.
371 “how the association”: Eric Lipton, “Trade Group Confirms Deal with Tiny Firm for ID Cards,” New York Times, April 28, 2006, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E5DF103FF93BA15757C0A9609C8B63.
372 trips that cost: Eric Lipton, “In Kentucky Hills, a Homeland Security Bonanza,” New York Times, May 13, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/washington/14rogers.html.
373 Or maybe it was: Ibid.
374 The Indianapolis Business Journal: “City Cuts Property in Play,” Indianapolis Business Journal, August 23, 2008, www.ibj.com/html/detail_page_Full.asp?content=19054&NoFrame=1.
375 Her husband, Daniel Mulhern: Chad Selweski, “Granholm Supporters Helped Her Husband Secure Wayne County Contracts,” Macomb Daily, January 13, 2002, http://204.176.34.196/macombdaily/article.asp?ID=2971927.
376 three-quarters of the: John Chase, Ray Gibson, Sbr S David Kidwell, Ray Long, and Jeffrey Meitrodt, “The Governor’s $25,000 Club,” Chicago Tribune, April 27, 2008, http://archives. chicagotribune.com/2008/apr/27/business/chi-blago-big-donors-bd27apr27.
377 “a unique and innovative”: Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise,” Washington Post, August 22, 2007, www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+White+House?tid=informline.
378 In 1992, his office: Dana Heupel, “Burris’ Contracts to Contributors,” January 5, 2009, http://illinoisissuesblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/burris-contracts-to-contributors.html.
379 More than half: Ibid.
380 After leaving his seat: John Chase and Ray Gibson, “Burris Practiced in Political Arts,” Chicago Tribune, January 8, 2009, www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-burris-record-08-jan08,0,4656666.story.
381 As a private citizen: “Roland Burris: Not a Virgin in a Chicago Whorehouse,” FreeRepublic.com, January 8, 2009, www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160983/posts.
382 $290,000 contract to scour: Chase and Gibson, “Burris Practiced in Political Arts.”
383 A Philadelphia firm: Ibid.
384 Another company, ACS Healthcare: Ibid.
385 “approval from state hospital regulators”: Ibid.
386 “was room for more”: Ibid.
387 His old law firm: Ibid.
388 Once in office: Ibid.
389 “bought his job”: Chase, Gibson, Kidwell, Long, and Meitrodt, “The Governor’s $25,000 Club.”
390 A Chicago engineering firm: Ibid.
391 A Chicago pharmacist: Ibid.
392 Six months after: Ibid.
393 A Chicago architectural firm: Ibid.
394 Ali Ata, Blagojevich’s: Ibid.
395 ACS State & Local: Ibid.
396 The Ballard law firm: Chris Freind, “Ballard’s $773,000 ‘No Contract’ Work,” The Bulletin, January 9, 2009, www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/01/09/top_storiesdoc4966eef74061a740614583.txt.