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Obama Associate Got $100 k From Iran-Linked Company
Monday, August 6, 2012 14:41
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Published on Aug 6, 2012 by RTAmerica
According to a recent Washington Post article, David Plouffe, an ex-campaign manager for President Obama back in 2008, accepted a 100 thousand dollars speaking fee from a company that does business with the government of Iran. Iran is often depicted as America's number one enemy and with Mitt Romney just back from a trip to Israel where he pledged the utmost support, what does that all mean for the America people? Jamal Abdi of the National Iranian Council explains.
Firm with ties to Iran, Syria paid top Obama adviser $100k to speak
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
Senior White House adviser David Plouffe was paid $100,000 for two 2010 speeches to a South African company with ties to the governments of Iran and Syria, the Washington Post reported Monday.
Plouffe spoke to a subsidiary of the MTN Group, a telecommunications firm, in Lagos, Nigeria, in December 2010–a month before he joined the White House staff.
In a comment to the Washington Post, the White House downplayed the speech, saying the company’s connections to Iran were not well known at the time.
