Tuesday, April 24, 2012

"Tim Geithner’s Father-In-Law Sounds Like A Delightful Drunk* "

From DealBreaker:
Make what you will of this somewhat bizarre story but our takeaway is that the Treasury Secretary’s FIL would make a great party guest and/or Benihana tablemate.
Food critic Albert Sonnenfeld, whose daughter, Carole, is wed to the country’s top money man, stunned strangers at Bar Boulud Thursday night when he claimed President Obama’s nomination of Dartmouth College president Dr. Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank was part of a plan to allow Geithner to take over the Ivy League school’s top post…“That’s why Obama nominated [Kim] for the World Bank — so that there’d be an opening,” Sonnenfeld claimed to a dinner companion at the eatery’s communal table....MORE