Monday, November 30, 2009

Last Call

John Cole has the best angle on the Chelsea Clinton engagement story tonight:
Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.
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Mezvinsky is a son of former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, longtime friends of the Clintons. Ed Mezvinsky was released from federal prison last year after pleading guilty in 2002 to charges of bank and wire fraud.
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The couple became friends as teenagers in Washington and both attended Stanford University. They now live in New York, where Mezvinsky works at Goldman Sachs and Clinton is attending graduate school at Columbia University’s School of Public Health.
Ahh Goldman Sachs...is there anything you can't do?

Seriously, you have a guy with a father convicted of bank fraud, and it doesn't even begin to disqualify the son from working at a financial firm like GS.  Only in America.

1 comment:

  1. Well, let's remember that Madoff (with what some consider the biggest financial scam in history) was once a chairman of the Nasdaq index. These people all run in the same circles, much like the insurance industry they have made their sector as full of smoke and mirrors as possible to enhance the ability to game the system and skim money from investors looking for insight into how to do the same.

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