The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray Campaign that was done in secret that was not reported, and it was 650,000. Which is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly, Jeffrey Thompson was the sole funder. You have
Jeffrey thompson. Why . Our local businessman at the center of major federal investigation and no one really knew who we was. So i basically told my editor i want to write the definitive profile of Jeffrey Thompson. When people want to know about him, they want i want them to refer back to this article. What we want to know about him . Right now, he is the center of d. C. Politics and some folks say he is actually at the center of d. C. All addiction basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 22 million year. And no one really knew who he things came to light the011 over problems with current mayors. The current Mayors Campaign in 2010. We have one former city councilmember, the son of ron brown, the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all that stuff you all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I d
This is an hour and five minutes. [applause] [applause] these welcome margaret spellings. [applause] thank you for joining us today. As the announcer said, i am margaret spellings, the president of the bush president ial center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. We would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. The moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row is leading the way and their gift is making this possible. They are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. Thank you to my partner and best friend Bruce Lindsey of the Clinton Foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the Library Foundation and the chairman of the lbj Foundation Library board in austin. Our National Archive partners are led by the affiliated libraries are here with us. And smu, Clinton School of Public Service at the university of arkansas, tex
As he turned to walk away i said you should come too. He said you want both of us . Youre both good friends. Weve been friends all these years. And just couple to couple. Yeah, that would be great. Think about that. He said i will. And they did. And thats just a great honor to have them both out. Theyve been just good friends of ours for all these years. Bill and hillary have provided i think great leadership for our country in the past and in their respective ways. I served on the can he in the snath under ted kennedy with Hillary Clinton all the time she was in the senate. We had great working relationships in the snath. I think she just did an outstanding job as our secretary of state. In fact, as we traveled around the world the last two years, the just amazing how stature that Hillary Clinton globally among women and girls all over this globe. He has kind of let, lit a fire among women and girls around the world. In heyre just holder her high esteem. Theyre all expected to speak a
He managed to care for those residents. We are talking about 100,000 customers. There are only 600,000 people in the district and hundred thousand people need this care. How much money did Jeffrey Thompson get from the District Of Columbia on all the friends that he helped fund for his company . The d. C. Chartered contract million. 322 onetime . No, per year. By the and it was up to 322 Million Dollars. We are talking about a company that he bought in 2000 four 4 million. At that time, the company made about 26 million a year. This is a person who really built the company up. Some may believe that it was through corrupt means, but other folks say that he was very savvy, he was very smart. He built this company up. One of the things that i found in reporting my story is that this is basically a circle of money. He would get the money from the city and then he would give to his charities, to his family and his friends. Somehow that money would circle whond to the candidates would approv