Obama Foundation Hires Billionaire’s Lawyer Amid Legal Battles
“The Obama Foundation has a new general counsel in Shawn White, a former top lawyer to billionaire philanthropist and Democratic Party donor Eli Broad,” reports Brian Baxter in Bloomberg Law’s Business & Practice.
“White will succeed outgoing legal chief Addar Levi whose new role as deputy general counsel at the Treasury Department was announced Tuesday, a day after former President Barack Obama’s Chicago-based nonprofit touted its addition of White to lead legal affairs …”
“The OPC, a $500 million project, hopes to break ground this summer following prolonged delays in its construction. The 19-acre campus with views of Lake Michigan will no longer be home to the Obama presidential library, whose documents will instead be digitized under a 2019 agreement between the Obama Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration.”
