Rahm Emanuel, who is President Obama’s chief of staff, has been living rent-free in an apartment owned by a BP consultant it has been revealed.
Emanuel moved five years ago into the Washington D.C. apartment of Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and her husband, Stanley Greenberg. Greenberg’s consulting firm was the brains behind the marketing of BP as a “green” oil company and gave it the slogan “Beyond Petroleum”
BP was the largest contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign, and was exempted from an environmental impact study by the administration for the Deepwater Horizon disaster site.
Note that even sans the BP connection, the rent-free living would led to questions about conflict of interest and tax liability. Of course, Democrats have this unusual trait of thinking that laws don’t apply to them.