washingtontimes.com - 11/13/2008
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Team Obama announced this afternoon that Josh Gotbaum, the first CEO of the September 11th Fund, will lead the review team that will be parked at the Department of the Treasury. (See story detailing the review teams here .) Gotbaum's bio, per the transition team: Josh Gotbaum currently serves as ...
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Ari Melber: Facebooking Obama's Cabinet
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama announced some new staff pics on Wednesday. Within hours, Christina Bellantoni, who traveled with the Obama campaign for The Washington Times, was busy blogging their Facebook profiles. She found that Josh Gotbaum, who has the huge task of heading the "review team" at Treasury, has the right interests posted on his profile: "Fixing organizations, business, government, politics and singing." And while he only has 159 friends, one of them is Larry Summers. "Could be a tea leaf for Treasury Secretary, or could just mean they are pals," observes Bellantoni. And ...
Reporter Digs Up Obama Cabinet Facebook Data
Politics Daily —
... LOLectionWhen Josh Gotbaum--a Clinton crony and long-time investment banker--was named by the Obama team to lead the Treasury Department review, Washington Times White House correspondent Christina Bellantoni started digging. As would be expected, she checked out his official bio, which details a career involving investment banking and something called "restructurings and management turnaround." Which seemed slighty evasive. Unsatisfied, she checked out his Facebook page. And then the sparks began to fly. First off, Mr. ...
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