Chicago cronyism at it’s finest. This shit won’t stop, give Obama another term where he is not worried about re-election and this will pale in comparison to what he is capable of. The Administration and the HHS can say that UHI passed all the criteria that was needed for the grant, but with Mooch’s ties and being Obama’s bestist buddy, what do you think? Plus the director of the HHS is a Obama appointee, quid pro quo my friends. It’s like the guy won the lottery and is helping all of his pal’s, well in a way he did, in his eyes he won the Presidency so he won the ultimate lottery. Never ending supply of taxpayer money to be divided amongst his peeps. Damn shame!

The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it had awarded a $5.9 million grant to a University of Chicago Medical Center program tied to Michelle Obama and run by Eric Whitaker, one of President Obama’s closest friends.

The Urban Health Initiative, which received the award, was originally based on a smaller program launched during the last decade by Michelle Obama, who was an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center before she departed to become first lady. The UHI is headed up by Obama basketball and golf buddy Whitaker, who has known the president since Obama’s days in law school and who also vacations with the first family.

 Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett also has ties to the UHI. Until resigning to go work at the White House, Jarrett was Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees. And in 2007, a PR firm run by former senior White House adviser and Obama political guru David Axelrod provided provided public relations strategy advice to the UHI, according to the Washington Post.

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