More Details Surface About Obama, Woods Fund

After news broke almost five months ago about Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s service as a paid director on the board of the Woods Fund, I wrote and published a post, Woods Fund President Silent on Obama Votes. It highlighted the fact that I never received a response to the inquiry I made to the leader of the Chicago-based nonprofit. I suspect many of the reasons behind their silence can be found in a piece by Richard Henry Lee that was published today at American Thinker.

Below is a hint of what Lee’s excellent article has to offer:

Barack Obama served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993 to 2001. During that time, the tax exempt foundation made some interesting grants, including one to Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ, headed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the time. Grants were also made to ACORN, a left wing voter registration group and to a partnership for constructing low income housing. The fund also used Northern Trust for financial services, which is the same company that provided Obama his 2005 mortgage.

In 2001 the board of directors included Obama, William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical terrorist, and serving as chairman was Howard J. Stanback who headed New Kenwood LLC, a limited liability company founded by now-convicted felon Tony Rezko and Allison Davis, Obama’s former boss at the law firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland.

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-- Bob McCarty Writes