Connected People

Someone commented on Daley's recent sucking up to Obama's ex-social director. Is this all true?

• Desiree Rogers has friends with money, she raises funds for 42 short and gets votes for him. Her ex-husband, John W. Rogers, Jr., owns/runs Ariel Capital Management (Ariel Funds) which gets much city business for all the deferred comp funds for all city employees. How much do you think Ariel makes holding and managing billions of city deferred comp accounts?
  
  A few years ago the city dumped a bunch of mutual funds and forced us to choose from a so-called equivalent selection of, guess what, Ariel Funds; that is when a lot of our deferred comp funds went to John W. Rogers, Jr. and Ariel Capital Management.
  
  You can bet your mortgage that lots of $$ goes back to daley in the form of campaign contributions.
  
  Look at the basket of funds available in deferred comp, all those Ariel funds are controlled by Desiree Rogers ex-husband, John W. Rogers, Jr. Another "good friend" of daley.
  
  Of all the money changing hands among daley's cronies not much has been written about John W. Rogers, Jr. and Desiree and the daley connection to Rogers and Ariel Funds and the massive amount of city business they get.
  
  Hey there Cub reporters, get on it!

And supposedly, it doesn't end there:

• Have to point out that John Rogers of Ariel Capital is the son of the famous----
  
  Judge Rogers from Juvie Court---

Amazing. Not surprising, but amazing nevertheless.