Michelle Malkin's latest article about ties between the Smollett and Obama crews:

All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas. Here's just a few:

— My search of White House visitor logs shows Jurnee Smollett-Bell paying at least one personal visit to “POTUS/FLOTUS” at their residence in March 2013 while Tchen was serving as a top strategist to both Obamas.

To minimize Tchen’s role in the Obamas’ political lives as merely an “aide” is journalistic malpractice. As I have previously reported:

— Tchen personally shovelled more than $200,000 into the 2008 Obama presidential campaign coffers while a high-powered lawyer at white-shoe Skadden Arps.

— Tchen served as special assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama, and then took over as chief of staff in the East Wing for Mrs. Obama.

— Tchen headed up the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement, spearheaded by longtime Chicago pal and fellow corporate lawyer/bundler Valerie Jarrett.

— Tchen was listed in 2009 White House visitor logs I reviewed as having met there with radical left-wing billionaire George Soros.

[Tchen's] plum jobs and her role in Smollett’s Folly all pale in comparison to her newest gig: playing watchdog over the crumbling

Southern Poverty Law Center.

Whoa, what another major conflict of interest this is.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/malkin-the-obama-connected-jussie-smollett-fixer

Valerie Jarrett and Tchen pals of 30 years.

On Thursday, the colleagues and pals of 30 years met up in Washington D.C. (they both split their time between the capital and Chicago). Jarrett and Tchen were joined by Jordan Brooks, a former Obama White House aide. She’s now the chief operating officer of The United State of Women, a women’s equality nonprofit. Jarrett and Tchen are co-chairs, having launched The United State of Women in 2016 as a White House summit.

A native of Beachwood, Ohio, Tchen went to undergrad at Harvard before receiving her law degree at Northwestern University in 1984. She stayed in Chicago and became a partner at the law firm Skadden Arps, where she stayed for 23 years.

It’s during this period that she first met Jarrett and the Obamas. Michelle Obama was a senior vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Jarrett served as chair of the board of trustees and Tchen had a seat. “She was a part of the Lakefront liberal progressive community,” Jarrett said, explaining that their fights for gender equity are rooted in being working single mothers. “She has an outstanding national reputation for being both an exceptional lawyer, an advocate for gender equity and a very decent human being,” Jarrett added.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tina-tchen-the-obama-staffer-turned-hollywood-player-at-the-heart-of-the-jussie-smollett-controversy

I can't get the term gender equity out of my head when I see "her" picture.