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McCain's Campaign Manager, Rick Davis, was on Fannie and Freddie Payroll

John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, was on Fannie and Freddie's payroll.  They paid him $15,000 a month.  I don't know about you, but to me, that's real money. Oh, it gets better.  Much better. What did he do for them? Nothing! That's right.  He did nothing for them: They said they did not recall Mr. Davis?s doing much substantive work for the company in return for the money, other than speak to a political action committee of high-ranking employees in October 2006 on the approaching midterm Congressional elections. They said Mr. Davis?s firm, Davis & Manafort, had been kept on the payroll because of Mr. Davis?s close ties to Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, who by 2006 was widely expected to run again for the White House...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).