Profiles in Corruption

by Peter Schweizer

  134. “Candidate Briefing: What a Cory Booker Presidency Could Mean for the Gulf,” Gulf International Forum, February 1, 2019, https://gulfif.org/candidate-profile-what-a-cory-booker-2020-run-could-mean-for-the-gulf/.

  135. Hunter Walker, “Cory Booker Says the U.S. Needs to ‘Reexamine’ Its ‘Entire Relationship’ with Saudi Arabia,” Yahoo, October 18, 2018, https://news.yahoo.com/cory-booker-says-u-s-needs-re-examine-entire-relationship-saudi-arabia-211344667.html.

  136. Derek Seidman, “The Power Behind the Pipelines: PennEast Pipeline,” Public Accountability Initiative, February 6, 2018, https://public-accountability.org/report/the-power-behind-the-pipelines-penneast-pipeline/.

  137. Opensecrets.org, “PennEast Pipeline: Report Images,” 2015, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/client_reports.php?id=F198799%20%20%20&year=2015.

  138. “The PennEast Pipeline Cuts Through Hunterdon County,” Stoppenneast.org, March 3, 2017, https://www.stoppenneast.org/index.php/county-pages/hunterdon-county.

  139. Mike Spille, “The Dense Web of Financial Interests,” The Cost of the Pipeline, September 3, 2016, https://thecostofthepipeline.com/2016/09/03/the-dense-web-of-financial-interests/; “Sen. Booker ‘Extremely Concerned’ About PennEast in Letter to FERC,” Insider NJ, press release, April 2, 2018, https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/sen-booker-extremely-concerned-penneast-letter-ferc/.

  140. Laura Nahmias, “Lobbyists Prepare for Medical Marijuana Boomlet,” Politico, January 6, 2015, https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/01/lobbyists-prepare-for-medical-marijuana-boomlet-018639.

  141. Josefa Velasquez, “Lobbying Strategy for Medical Marijuana Runners-up May Be Paying Off,” Politico, April 21, 2017, https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2017/04/21/despite-losing-medical-marijuana-runner-ups-maintain-lobbying-presence-in-albany-111402.

  142. Ted Sherman, “Here Are the High-Powered Influencers, Many Close to Gov. Murphy and Lawmakers, Pushing for Legal Weed in N.J.,” NJ.com, March 22, 2019, https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2019/03/here-are-the-high-powered-influencers-many-close-to-gov-murphy-and-lawmakers-pushing-for-legal-weed-in-nj.html.

  143. Carmin Chappell, “Cory Booker Introduces Bill to Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, with Support from Fellow 2020 Candidates,” CNBC, February 28, 2019; Marijuana Justice Act of 2019, S. 597, 116th Cong. (2019), https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/cory-booker-introduces-bill-to-legalize-marijuana-nationwide.html; https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/597/text.

  Chapter 5: Elizabeth Warren

  1. Suzanna Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much,” Vanity Fair, November 2011, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/elizabeth-warren-201111.

  2. John Cassidy, “Elizabeth Warren’s Moment,” New York Review of Books, May 22, 2014, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/05/22/elizabeth-warrens-moment/.

  3. Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014), https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Fighting_Chance.html?id=rNS4AwAAQBAJ; “A Fighting Chance,” Amazon.com, as quoted in a comment from New York Review of Books.

  4. Warren, A Fighting Chance.

  5. Jonathan M. Hanen, “The Elizabeth Warren Cheering Squad,” Capital Research Center, May 1, 2015, http://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/OT0515.pdf.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much.”

  8. Susan Bordo, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2017) p. 54.

  9. Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much.”

  10. “ ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent When Demonstrators Clash With Police,” Fox News, November 21, 2015, https://www.foxnews.com/us/occupy-wall-street-protests-turn-violent-when-demonstrators-clash-with-police.

  11. Antonia Felix, Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2018), p. 196; Samuel P. Jacobs, “Elizabeth Warren: ‘I Created Occupy Wall Street,’ ” Daily Beast, July 13, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warren-i-created-occupy-wall-street.

  12. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, p. 187; Warren, A Fighting Chance, p. 2.

  13. Cassidy, “Elizabeth Warren’s Moment.”

  14. Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much.”

  15. Jeffrey Toobin, “The Professor,” New Yorker, September 10, 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-professor-jeffrey-toobin; Stephanie McCrummen, “Elizabeth Warren: What Kind of Senator Will She Be?,” Washington Post, November 9, 2012, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-what-kind-of-senator-will-she-be/2012/11/09/081a6fbc-2a8a-11e2-b4e0–346287b7e56c_story.html.

  16. Ylan Q. Mui, “Democrat’s Control of Senate Could Hinge on Warren Campaign,” Washington Post, September 19, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/democrats-control-of-senate-could-hinge-on-warren-campaign/2011/09/16/gIQA1HUYfK_story.html.

  17. “Elizabeth Warren Fast Facts,” CNN, July 3, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/09/us/elizabeth-warren-fast-facts/index.html.

  18. Sabrina Tavernise, “How Elizabeth Warren Learned to Fight,” New York Times, June 24, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-republican-conservative-democrat.html; Warren, A Fighting Chance, p. 6.

  19. Warren, A Fighting Chance, pp. 11–17.

  20. Nancy Moffit, “The Two Income Trap,” Wharton Alumni Magazine, Fall 2003, p. 9, http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/fall-2003/the-two-income-trap/.

  21. Warren, A Fighting Chance, pp. 23–27, 38; “Elizabeth Warren Fast Facts.”

  22. Stephanie Ebbert, “Directories Identified Warren as Minority,” Boston Globe, April 30, 2012, http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/04/30/elizabeth_warren_was_listed_as_a_minority_professor_in_law_directories_in_the_80s_and_90s/.

  23. Gregory Krieg, “Here’s the Deal with Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Heritage,” CNN, October 15, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/politics/elizabeth-warren-native-american-pocahontas/index.html.

  24. William Cummings, “In Response to Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ Jibes, Warren Releases Results of DNA Test,” USA Today, October 15, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/15/elizabeth-warren-dna-test/1645840002/.

  25. Elizabeth Hartfield, “Elizabeth Warren Says She Used Native American Heritage to Meet Friends,” ABC News, May 2, 2012, https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/elizabeth-warren-says-she-used-native-american-heritage-to-meet-friends/.

  26. Mary Carmichael and Stephanie Ebbert, “Warren says she told schools of heritage,” Boston Globe, May 31, 2012, http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/31/elizabeth_warren_acknowledges_telling_harvard_penn_of_native_american_status/?page=full.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Aaron Blake, “University of Pennsylvania also listed Elizabeth Warren as a minority,” Washington Post, May 10, 2012.

  29. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, pp. 101, 103.

  30. Carmichael and Ebbert, “Warren says she told schools of heritage.”

  31. Jennifer Levitz, “Law Review Called Senate Candidate Warren ‘Woman of Color,’ ” Wall Street Journal, May 15, 2012.

  32. “Welcome Guinier,” Harvard Crimson, February 4, 1998, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1998/2/4/welcome-guinier-pwe-welcome-the-announcement/; Hartfield, “Elizabeth Warren Says She Used Native American Heritage to Meet Friends.”

  33. Idil Tuysuzoglu, “Tensions and Tenure: Elizabeth Warren at the Law School,” Harvard Crimson, May 22, 2018, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/5/22/warren-tenure/; Ebbert, “Directories Identified Warren as Minority.”

  34. Kevin D. Williamson, “Elizabeth Warren’s Wall Street Money Machine,” National Review, April 18, 2012, https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/04/elizabeth-warrens-wall-street-money-machine-kevin-d-williamson/; Homepage, Cleary Gottlieb, accessed April 3, 2019, https://www.clearygottlieb.com/; “Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP,” Vault, accessed June 20, 2019, https://www.vault.com/company-profiles/law/cleary-gottlieb-steen-hamilton-llp.r />
  35. Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

  36. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, p. 107.

  37. Larkin Warner, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, s.v. “Oklahoma Economy,” n.d., https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=OKLAHOMA%20ECONOMY.

  38. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, pp. 145–47.

  39. “Elizabeth Warren Bought Foreclosed Homes to Make a Quick Profit,” National Review, May 27, 2015, https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/05/elizabeth-warren-real-estate-profiteer-jillian-kay-melchior-eliana-johnson/.

  40. Jerry Kronenberg, “Records: Prof profited by buying, selling homes,” Boston Herald, June 2, 2012 (updated November 17, 2018), https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/06/02/records-prof-profited-by-buying-selling-homes/; Melchior and Johnson, “Elizabeth Warren Bought Foreclosed Homes to Make a Quick Profit.”

  41. Search done at the Oklahoma County Clerk website. Select ROD, and search for “Warren Elizabeth.” Amounts are on individual documents; http://okcc.online/

  42. Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much.”

  43. Verified Statement of Professor Elizabeth Warren in Accordance with Section 1103 of the Bankruptcy Code and Rule 2014 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, In the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Kaiser Aluminum, et al. Chapter 11 proceedings, Case No. 02–10429 (JFK), Section 18, https://www.scribd.com/document/291507147/In-Re-Kaiser-Elizabeth-Warren-Verified-Statement.

  44. Jonathan D. Glater: “Management; For Armstrong, Bankruptcy Is Lesser of Two Evils,” New York Times, December 20, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/20/business/management-for-armstrong-bankruptcy-is-lesser-of-two-evils.html; Annie Linskey, “Dow Breast Implant Case Spotlights Elizabeth Warren’s Work Helping Big Corporations Navigate Bankruptcies,” Washington Post, July 15, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dow-breast-implant-case-spotlights-elizabeth-warrens-work-helping-big-corporations-navigate-bankruptcies/2019/07/15/06b0d676–82fc-11e9–95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html.

  45. Ibid.

  46. Linskey, “Dow Breast Implant Case Spotlights Elizabeth Warren’s Work.”

  47. Matthew Sturdevant, “Travelers Asbestos Case Remains at Center of U.S. Senate Race Between Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren,” Hartford Courant, October 12, 2012, https://www.courant.com/business/hc-xpm-2012–10–12-hc-travelers-scott-brown-elizabeth-warren-20121012-story.html.

  48. “Elizabeth Warren’s Legal Work,” ElizabethWarren.com, accessed June 26, 2019, https://elizabethwarren.com/legal-work/.

  49. Verified Statement of Professor Elizabeth Warren, Case No. 02–10429 (JFK); Inflation Calculator, $700 in 2002 —> $998.33 in 2019, n.d., http://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2002?amount=700.

  50. Hillary Chabot, “Miner: Elizabeth Warren’s biz ‘hypocritical,’ ” Boston Herald, September 25, 2012, 2018, https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/09/25/miner-elizabeth-warrens-biz-hypocritical/; “Coal Act,” United Mine Workers of America, accessed June 27, 2019, http://umwa.org/for-members/pensions-retiree-info/coal-act/.

  51. Chabot, “Miner: Elizabeth Warren’s biz ‘hypocritical.’ ”

  52. Ibid.

  53. “Interview Elizabeth Warren,” Frontline, May 16, 2006, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/interviews/warren.html.

  54. Chabot, “Miner: Elizabeth Warren’s biz ‘hypocritical.’ ”

  55. “Interview Elizabeth Warren”; “Elizabeth Warren’s Legal Work.”

  56. In Re Fairchild Aircraft Corp., 184 B.R. 910 (W.D. Tex. 1995), https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/BR/184/910/1870056/; William A. Jacobson, “Documenting another Elizabeth Warren Fib—Fairchild Aircraft case,” Legal Insurrection, November 3, 2012, https://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/documenting-another-elizabeth-warren-fib-fairchild-aircraft-case/.

  57. Jacobson, “Documenting.”

  58. “Prior to Debate, Warren Releases Information on Her Cases,” Boston Globe, October 1, 2012, https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/10/01/prior-to-debate-warren-releases-information-on-her-cases; William A. Jacobson, “Elizabeth Warren Represented Large Utility Seeking to Liquidate Rural Electric Cooperative,” Legal Insurrection, October 9, 2012, https://legalinsurrection.com/2012/10/elizabeth-warren-represented-large-utility-seeking-to-liquidate-rural-electric-cooperative/.

  59. William Jacobson, “Elizabeth Warren’s Implausible Dow Chemical Claim,” Legal Insurrection, October 10, 2012, https://legalinsurrection.com/2012/10/elizabeth-warrens-implausible-dow-chemical-claim/.

  60. Linskey, “Dow Breast Implant Case Spotlights Elizabeth Warren’s Work.”

  61. Ibid.

  62. William Jacobson, “Elizabeth Warren held asbestos workers hostage to inter-corporate fight,” Legal Insurrection, October 21, 2012, https://legalinsurrection.com/2012/10/elizabeth-warren-held-asbestos-workers-hostage-to-inter-corporate-fight/.

  63. “Tax Returns,” ElizabethWarren.com, n.d., https://elizabethwarren.com/tax-returns/; Elizabeth Warren, Personal Financial Disclosure, 2009.

  64. Homepage, Armstrong World Industries Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust, accessed April 8, 2019, http://www.armstrongworldasbestostrust.com/; “Elizabeth Warren’s Legal Work.”

  65. Armstrong Holdings, Inc., 2004, form 10-Q, quarter 3 (filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2004), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7431/000119312504186232/d10q.htm. Verified Statement of Professor Elizabeth Warren, Case No. 02–10429 (JFK), Section 18, pp. 3, 5.

  66. Verified Statement of Professor Elizabeth Warren, Case No. 02–10429 (JFK).

  67. “Elizabeth Warren,” Harvard University, last updated June 25, 2008, http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/ewarren/Warren%20CV%20062508.pdf; “Elizabeth Warren’s Legal Work.”

  68. “Prior to Debate, Warren Releases Information on Her Cases”; Elizabeth Warren, Personal Financial Disclosures, 2008 and 2009.

  69. Moffit, “The Two-Income Trap,” p. 8; “Elizabeth Warren,” Harvard University.

  70. Libby Nelson, “Elizabeth Warren Wants to Kill the Neighborhood School,” Vox, April 16, 2014, https://www.vox.com/2014/4/16/5621630/elizabeth-warren-wants-to-kill-the-neighborhood-school; Felix, Elizabeth Warren, pp. 134–35.

  71. “Elizabeth Warren Suggests She’s Not in the 1%,” BuzzFeed News, January 27, 2012, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeedpolitics/elizabeth-warren-says-shes-not-in-the-1; Elizabeth Warren, Personal Financial Disclosures, 2008 and 2009.

  72. Elizabeth Warren, Personal Financial Disclosures, 2008 and 2009.

  73. “Harvard Layoffs Update, and More ‘Reshaping’ to Come,” Harvard Magazine, September 2009, https://harvardmagazine.com/2009/06/harvard-layoffs-update-more-reshaping-come; William A. Jacobson, “Another Item for The Elizabeth Warren File,” Legal Insurrection, November 27, 2012, https://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/another-item-for-the-elizabeth-warren-file/; Mary Carmichael, “Harvard Link Could Aid, Hinder Warren,” Boston Globe, September 20, 2011, https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/09/19/harvard-connection-could-aid-hinder-warren/2a5aK3CYrMOwxQ67jL0EjM/story.html.

  74. Carmichael, “Harvard Link Could Aid, Hinder Warren”; Internal Revenue Service, Elizabeth Warren Form 1040, 2008 and 2009.

  75. Kat Stoeffel, “Elizabeth Warren has a sidekick in Daughter Amelia,” The Cut, September 10, 2012, https://www.thecut.com/2012/09/elizabeth-warrens-daughter-is-her-sidekick.html.

  76. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, pp. 139, 140, 149–50; Bob Irvy, Bradley Keoun, and Phil Kuntz, “Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress,” Bloomberg, November 27, 2011, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011–11–28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income; Robert Chess and Ryan Kissick, “Business Talent Group: Growing the Market for Independent Business Talent,” Case No. E621, “Entrepreneurship,” May 11, 2017, https:/
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  77. Michael Scherer, “The New Sheriffs of Wall Street,” Time, May 13, 2010, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1989144,00.html.

  78. Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much.”

  79. “Leadership,” Business Talent Group, accessed June 24, 2019, https://businesstalentgroup.com/leadership/.

  80. Jessica Pressler, “Morgan Stanley Exec Changes License Plate After No One Finds Joke That Funny,” Intelligencer, December 9, 2009, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/12/morgan_stanley_exec_changes_li.html.

  81. “Bailed Out Banks,” CNN Money, n.d., https://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbailout/.

  82. “Leadership,” Business Talent Group, accessed June 24, 2019, https://businesstalentgroup.com/leadership/.

  83. “Geithner Is the Greatest (Possibly a Genius) . . . ,” Economic Policy Journal, November 24, 2008, https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2008/11/geithner-is-greatest-possibly-genius.html; “Bailed Out Banks”; “Portfolio Company Highlights: Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.,” The Carlyle Group, accessed June 27, 2019, https://www.carlyle.com/our-business/portfolio-of-investments/boston-private-financial-holdings-inc.

  84. “Leadership,” Business Talent Group, on Internet Archive, n.d., https://web.archive.org/web/20081225151047/http://www.businesstalentgroup.com/who_we_are/advisors.php (captured December 25, 2008).

  85. Felix, Elizabeth Warren, pp. 139–40; Jody Greenstone Miller, “Temporary Workers and the 21st Century Economy,” Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2009, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703939404574567942566170348.

  86. George Zornick, “Elizabeth Warren Takes on the ‘Gig Economy,’ ” Nation, May 20, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-takes-on-the-gig-economy/.