According to Barack Obama's 2012 campaign website, Jon Corzine of Hoboken,
New Jersey raised at least $500,000 for the president's reelection effort.
Here's the listing:
Corzine, of course, has most recently been in the news for being on the wrong
side of a $6.3 billion bet as head of MF Global. "MF Global filed for bankruptcy
on October 31, after $6.3 billion in risky bets on European sovereign debt
spooked investors and an effort to sell the company failed," Reuters reported. "Investigators are searching
for as much as $1.2 billion in missing customer money, which regulators said the
company may have diverted for its own needs."
Later, Corzine admitted he could not account for the $1.2 billion.
At one point, Corzine was once considered a possible candidate for secretary
of the Treasury Department. "President Obama once hailed [Corzine] as an
'honorable man' and one of his 'best partners' in the White House," ABC reported.
Corzine's fundraising puts the former Goldman Sachs CEO and disgraced banker
in the highest category of bundlers in terms of dollars raised. But he most
likely won't be a resident of Hoboken for much longer. "The scandal-hit former
MF Global chief has put his penthouse condo along the Hudson on the block for
$2.9 million," the New York Post reported today. "That’s a 12
percent drop compared to the $3.3 million he paid for his high-end Hoboken
bachelor pad just three years earlier."
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