Emanuel Used Political Connections to Leverage Personal Wealth

Barack Obama, in the name of ethics, has promised to “close the revolving door between K-Street lobbying shops and the White House.”

He very well might do that, but the man running the show in his White House, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, is among the all-time champions in parlaying work in government into business connections and personal wealth—$16.2 million in two-and-a-half years—and then leveraging those business connections back into political success.