{"id":191939,"date":"2009-06-03T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/reports-that-larry-summers-took-semi-legal-bribes\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T04:10:00","slug":"reports-that-larry-summers-took-semi-legal-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/reports-that-larry-summers-took-semi-legal-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports that Larry Summers Took Semi-Legal Bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ames notes that it looks like the banks, knowing that he would be in a position to exert significant authority over them after a new administration came in, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/140327\/?page=entire\">bought him off ahead of time<\/a> by investing in start-up companies where he was on the board only because of his expected future political clout.<\/p>\n<p>This has been his history during his entire career, and the revolving door keeps turning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ames notes that it looks like the banks, knowing that he would be in a position to exert significant authority over them after a new administration came in, bought him off ahead of time by investing in start-up companies where he was on the board only because of his expected future political clout. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}