Barney Frank rakes in $40G from bailed out banks ... despite vow to shun bailed-out lenders (Congress, campaign)

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Barney Frank rakes in $40G from bailed out banks - BostonHerald.com (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1290601 - broken link)

Frank vowed in February 2009 that he wouldn’t accept campaign donations from banks that received money under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) or political action committees tied to such institutions.

But Frank has hauled in thousands from top execs at Bank of America, Citizens Bank, Wainwright Bank, JP Morgan Chase and other institutions that received billions in TARP money.

So what does he do? Lies, of course;

In a statement last night, a Frank spokesman said the congressman has declined to take contributions only from the top 10 TARP recipients, but he noted he would accept donations from those institutions once they repaid their debts.

Funny, none of the above can be found from his statement of Jan 2009.