Andy Stern federal corruption investigation, FBI probe of SEIU union boss,  Obama healthcare budget advisor

From The Examiner October 5, 2010.

“FBI investigates Obama’s healthcare, budget advisor”

“”If we cant use the power of persuasion, we will use the persuasion of power. Workers of the world unite,” Andy Stern, SEIU

The SEIU union boss Andy Stern is reportedly linked to a federal corruption investigation initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Stern is known to regularly visited the White House and participated in so-called “closed-door Obamacare meetings” with the President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Stern, who sits on President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is the target of an FBI probe focusing on his crooked dealings as head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), according to a Washington, D.C. watchdog group.

Stern and Obama have long been good friends and last year the veteran Big Labor leader was the most frequent White House visitor, according to recently disclosed records obtained by Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates political corruption.

In addition, Stern’s union members have a reputation for being the Democrat Party’s “Brown Shirts” by providing muscle in the left’s continued attack on Tea Party participants.

Stern is considered a key figure in secret Obamacare meetings, which violated the president’s own campaign promise of televising all healthcare discussions on C-Span. None of these meetings were televised and in fact it took a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case to get a release of visitor records from the White House.

Health Department records obtained by Judicial Watch through a FOIA lawsuit reveal that Stern attended the covert pow-wows to take over the nation’s healthcare system along with other liberal-left union leaders, Vice President Joe Biden, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, among others.

So far the president has refused to comment on his pal’s corruption probe, which centers on a six-figure book contract and a shady “confidential” deal he approved for a California SEIU leader (Alejandro Stephens) sentenced to prison a few weeks ago for fraud.

Under the secret agreement Sterns gave Stephens, who headed the Los Angeles SEIU local for county government workers, $150,000 for “consulting” work that was never performed, according to a Los Angeles Times report.”

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