Chapter Two: Rahm, Bill… and Bruce: The Deal That Made Them All Rich

For Immediate Release    Chapter Two: Rahm, Bill… and Bruce: The Deal That Made Them All Rich March 2, 2018 – “I got everything I wanted and more,” Rahm Emanuel boasted to reporters in 2017, after Rauner signed legislation to bailout Chicago Public Schools on the backs of suburban and downstate voters. Is the public Rahm-Rauner sniping all just for show? Bruce Rauner ran as a political outside in 2014, but how familiar was he with the inside game? Chapter Two, ‘Rahm, Bill… and Bruce: The Deal That Made Them All Rich,’ of The Governor You Don’t Know: The Other Side of Bruce Rauner, documents the deal quiet deal between the men that yielded the means to “buy” the public seats of power to which they aspired. “Negotiations had been going on for months as Rauner’s firm could not find anyone to finance the acquisition. Emanuel was in contact with Rauner almost every day to try to get the deal done. And voila, it was. In the end Rauner’s firm paid $479 million for Security Link, with SBC financing all but $100 million of the sale price. Everyone was happy. Daley dumped the troubled security company; thank you, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel’s firm enjoyed lucrative fees for doing the deal; thank you, Bruce Rauner.  “As for Rauner’s company: Less than six months later, Rauner’s GTCR sold Security Link for $1 billion, more than a 100 percent profit. Thank you, Rahm Emanuel. Thank you, Bill Daley. No thanks were heard from Security Link’s 700 employees who were laid off after the purchase… “As Republicans, we don’t have a problem with people making money. But how close do political friends become when they’re responsible for each other making lots and lots of money? At some point, does it not create a conflict of interest?” Read the entire Chapter here.  Download the book here. ### For more information or to book Jeanne Ives, please contact Kathleen Murphy at 630-329-4680 or kathleenemurphy26@gmail.com.