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HHS awards Obama’s pal Eric Whitaker $5.9 million grant

barack-obama-arroganceThe corruption stinks so much, they don’t even bother to try and hide it anymore. According to White House Dossier the Urban Health Initiative, which received the $5.9 million tax payer funded grant 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. The UHI is headed up by Obama basketball and golf buddy Eric Whitaker, who has known the president since Obama’s days in law school and who also vacations with the first family on your dime. It’s just the Chicago way!

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.