It is being reported by the Daily Caller that while he was Illinois' U.S. Senator, Barack Obama attempted to steer $10 million in taxpayer money to a Chicago nonprofit under investigation for potential fraud, according to an email sent by the nonprofit’s then-director of operations.
Former Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF) director of operations Vincent Davis sent an email dated June 10, 2007 to Eric Brandmeyer, an official at an Illinois hospital, assuring him [Brandmeyer] that public funding for SALF would remain strong in the aftermath of a local media report on the group’s potentially fraudulent activities.
“All is ok regarding funding, and we are getting Obama to help push through our legislation for an additional 10 million which is part of the Homeland Security bill,” Davis wrote in his June 10 reply email.
See emails: HERE
SALF officials believed that their organization would be the intended recipient of at least $10 million in federal funding from the Community Response System Initiative (CRSI) Act of 2006.
As reported previously (HERE), Illinois' Democrat U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, a former SALF “Advisory Council” member, also urged a U.S. Senate subcommittee chairman to appropriate $1 million in federal funds for SALF in 1999.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin with SALF Founder Carol Spizzirri
The Save-A-Life Foundation is reportedly under investigation by the state's Democrat Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who is the daughter of House Speaker Mike Madigan, and a possible candidate for Governor in 2014.
More HERE
