Obama's lender will visit White House

Surely Crain's Chicago Business, who wrote the story below, knows that Northern Trust was the lender for Barack Obama's South Side mansion, which you can see from the direction of the "Rezko lot."

Jailed felon Tony Rezko's wife, Rita, purchased the land south of the Obama home on the same day the current first couple closed on the mansion.

Why was this left out of the Crain's report?

Northern Trust CEO Rick Waddell is among a group of U.S. bankers meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss Wall Street reforms and find ways to goose the economy.

Senior White House advisers said Obama, who has chastised bank CEOs for taking big bonuses and urged them to get credit flowing, was not going into the meeting with a specific agenda.

His message, they said, would be to tell the institutions largely blamed for sparking the U.S. economic crisis to focus on long-term goals to help the country.

"Our future is inextricably linked to these financial institutions and theirs is to ours, and so it makes all the sense in the world that they come together and have this conversation," said Valerie B. Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president.

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