Politics

Potential White House Chief of Staff Replacement?

By Paul Blumenthal

Tom Donilon, a White House national security advisor, is being touted as a potential replacement for Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff if Emanuel decides to leave to run for mayor of Chicago. The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney has a good catch on Donilon today:

He was a top lobbyist at Fannie Mae during the housing bubble, when Fannie fought ? with Democratic help ? to avoid any restrictions or curbs on its work to inflate home values and get more people under mortgage. Before that, Donilon was a lobbyist at O?Melveny and Myers, where Fannie was a client.

In 2008, according to his financial disclosure forms, Donilon was a paid consultant for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Apollo Investments.

Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).