{"id":407641,"date":"2010-03-09T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=13618"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:38:30","slug":"alexi%e2%80%99s-white-house-visit-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407641","title":{"rendered":"Alexi\u2019s White House Visit Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic nominee in Illinois&#8217; US Senate race&#8230;Alexi Giannoulias&#8230;is at the White House to help celebrate the contributions Greek-Americans have made to the nation. This while questions still linger on whether Giannoulias knew for some time the family-business&#8230;Broadway Bank&#8230;was in serious trouble.<\/p>\n<p>After submitting to a round of interviews (but not with Fox News) last week. Giannoulias conceded in those interviews it was not likely his family could raise the $70-million dollars or more to keep the bank afloat. Then&#8230;the latest development was raised by Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business on Monday:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The family of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias stands to collect more than $10 million in federal tax refunds even if its Broadway Bank fails.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This sets off a new round of questions for Giannoulias&#8230;who despite the on-going bad news about Broadway&#8230;remains (according to polls) in a tight race with Republican nominee Mark Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times editorial boards felt Giannoulias&#8217; answers about Broadway during their interviews with the candidate left the panels wanting. With the possibility of profiting from a bank likely to fail&#8230;there&#8217;s little doubt reporters and voters will be wanting more in the form of details from Giannoulias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic nominee in Illinois&#8217; US Senate race&#8230;Alexi Giannoulias&#8230;is at the White House to help celebrate the contributions Greek-Americans have made to the nation. This while questions still linger on whether Giannoulias knew for some time the family-business&#8230;Broadway Bank&#8230;was in serious trouble. After submitting to a round of interviews (but not with Fox News) last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}