Craig Robinson returned to Chicago and received a master’s of business administration in finance from the University of Chicago. He was a vice president at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter from 1992 to 1999 and then a partner in a boutique firm, Loop Capital Markets.
http://www .nytimes.com/2007/02/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16brown.html
Another notable: Chicago banker James Reynolds, who raised more than $200,000 for the Obama campaign while chief executive of Loop Capital Markets. The municipal-bond specialist was a longtime friend of Obama’s — feting him at his Hyde Park home and convincing friends and associates to open up their wallets more than a decade ago.
In 2003, USA Today reported, Reynolds was caught on FBI wiretaps arranging what prosecutors called a “sham” consulting contract with a gal pal of a Philadelphia mayoral adviser. After the conversations, Reynolds snagged $300,000 in no-bid city contracts for Loop Capital Markets. City officials went to jail over the scam. Reynolds skated. The Obama campaign’s only statement? “Jim Reynolds has admitted that he made mistakes, but he has not been charged with any wrongdoing.”
Fortunately for Obama bundlers who may find themselves in legal trouble in the future, Clinton-era donor-maintenance fixer Eric Holder (who oversaw the pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich) is guarding the henhouse at the Justice Department.
As Obama himself noted in 2007: “It is no coincidence that the best bundlers are often granted the greatest access, and access is power in Washington.”
https:// nypost.com/2009/10/31/hope-change-peddling-access/