At the time, the job/salary were said to be crucial to the hospital but since she left to become First Lady, the position has remained unfilled AND…

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.

I imagine how barack’s consiglieres have visited Wright in the past 2 days to try and get him to shut the hell up before this thing explodes. Let’s just say, I’m guessing Wright is getting that high seven figures he wanted in the first place.

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett also has ties to the UHI.

By the way, Whitaker is the same guy who got a “glowing” reference from Obama for Tony Rezko, which led to Rod Blagojevich hiring Whitaker to be the state’s public health director; and the same guy whose UHI program just got nearly $6 million from HHS as one of 26 grantees in an applicant pool of 3,000.

I’d say that this a very big F’ing deal. Unfortunately, the MFM will ignore or cover this up like everything else that alone would be enough to bring down any president. Especially a Republican.