Quantcast
Feeds: Email, RSS & Twitter

Get Our Videos By Email

 

8,300 Unique Visitors In The Past Day

 

Powered by Squarespace

 

Most Recent Comments
Cartoons & Photos
SEARCH

Recommend Bank Bailout Abuse Caught On Tape: TMZ & NBC Videos: Northern Mis-Trust Responds To Allegations Of Wasteful Behavior On The Taxpayer Dime. Millions Spent In 7 Day PGA Tour and Oscar Extravaganza (Email)

This action will generate an email recommending this article to the recipient of your choice. Note that your email address and your recipient's email address are not logged by this system.

EmailEmail Article Link

The email sent will contain a link to this article, the article title, and an article excerpt (if available). For security reasons, your IP address will also be included in the sent email.

Article Excerpt:

This 2 minute clip is Bloomington, Indiana native David Shuster with his take on the outrage in a segment called Hypocrisy Watch.

Pooled capital is back as Northern Trust makes the Erin Burnett bogus claim that no taxpayer bailout funds were utilized for their recent high-profile corporate events.  TMZ first broke the story yesterday that Northern Trust Bank, a recipient of $1.6 billion in taxpayer largesse from the first round of the government bailouts (TARP 1.0), spent over $10 million throwing lavish parties for employees and clients as part of their sponsorship of a PGA Tour event last week in Los Angeles.  Here are some of the details: as lead sponsor of the golf tournament, they ponied up over $5 million in prize money; an additional $5 million was spent on concerts by Sheryl Crowe and Chicago, luxury gifts from Tiffany plus 7 days of parties and resort lounging for hundreds of guests and employees. 

After the recent outrage over corporate-shindig malfeasance by AIG and Wells Fargo, one would think Northern Trust might have cancelled this golf-event sponsorship, around the time they decided to accept operating capital from you.  Instead, they forged ahead with Phil and Oscar, and now, in response to the growing outrage from taxpayers and Congress, they offer the following lie presented in picture by MSNBC:


Article Link:
Your Name:
Your Email:
Recipient Email:
Message: