Some of the former President Barack Obama and the greatest donors of First Lady Michelle Obama have left them in the midst of rumors that the marriage of the couple is on the rocks.
The 44th President of the United States is building his Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago, but at least some of the donors who have used to the couple in recent years have now returned, according to the Daily Beest.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who saves the Obamas by $ 100 million by $ 100 million in 2022, which increases the total of the year to more than $ 311 million in 2022.
But Fundraising Dutte by more than 50 percent the following year, according to IRS archives.
“He is arrogant,” said a donor who eventually gave considerably less for building the 225-foot watchtower and museum than in previous years.
“He didn't help others when they tried to raise funds and so they are not going to look forward to the Obamas.
“They are not a quid-pro-quo because it is a one-way street.”
Donors are also wary of the more than $ 5 million that was paid out in 'Executive Compensation' and more than $ 27.36 million in other wages in 2023, when Obama Confidant Valerie Jarrett attracted a $ 740,000 salary.
Some of the former President Barack Obama and the greatest donors of First Lady Michelle Obama have left them in the midst of rumors that the marriage of the couple is on the rocks
The 44th President of the United States is building his Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago
Proponents of the Presidential Library are now nervous waiting for the 2024 in fundraising, because they are also afraid of the affections of a $ 40 million lawsuit that claims one of the most important companies that the first black president of the nation is building themselves deals with racial discrimination.
Robert McGee, the owner of the company II, established in South Side in one for the Center for Concrete and Concrete Services, has sued this month in New York in Thornton Tomasetti in the federal court and asked to be repaid for construction costs.
He claims that Thornton Tomasetti has repeatedly changed the standards of the project and has subjected his company to 'excessive rigorous and unnecessary inspection' and extensive paperwork that influenced 'productivity and resulted in millions of losses', according to the court case.
McGee also accused them of 'racial discrimination'.
'In a shocking and discouraging turn of events, the Afro -American owner of a local construction company is and his company on the edge of forced closure due to racial discrimination by the structural engineer of Record (Thornton Tomasetti) for the construction of the Obama Presidential Center , “says the lawsuit.
McGee 'had never thought that the structural engineer of the Obama Foundation would have a subcontractor in his hands for unfair criticism and wrongly accuses the missing of sufficient qualifications and experience to perform his work, while, in the same letter, stating it states Contractors of minorities were sufficiently qualified, claimed it.
Thornton Tomasetti has denied the allegations and shares in a memo that the construction costs and delays were all unambiguously powered by the underperformance and inexperience 'of the black subcontractor.
In the Memo of February 2024 affiliated with the court case, Thornton Tomasetti shared images of cracked plate and exposed reinforcement steel, and told Obama Foundation Leadership that the concrete collective – that the company of McGee was part of – hundreds of requests for its work in the field to correct.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (right) and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky saved the Obamas by $ 100 million each in 2022, which increases the total of the year an increased to more than $ 311 million
The company said that 'hundreds of hours spent assessing, analyzing, re -designing and responding to corrective activities', and that contractors 'caused a multitude of problems in the field'.
McGee hit back in the court case and said that Thornton Tomasetti's criticism said the case, “unfair” and falsely accused II in one of “Without sufficient qualifications,” “”
Spokeswoman Emily Bittner, Obama Foundation, said to the Chicago Tribune: “If the foundation believed that a supplier acted with a racist intention, we would immediately take appropriate action. We have no reason to believe that Thornton Tomasetti acted with racist intention. '
Obama, 63, had promised to hire local employees, contractors and companies owned by minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities to build his five-hectare connection, which he had in mind as a leadership training institute and community center. With a monument for his presidency.
But the center had been a struggle for Obama from the start.
It stood for legal challenges for his plans to build in Jackson Park, a historic public park.
Obama insisted to have his center built in the historic area and ultimately to win approval in 2018.
The land was then broken in September 2021, but only a year later the construction of the library was stopped for a few days after a sling was found on site.
Barack and Michelle Obama have had to deal with rumors about a divorce – above the couple at the Democratic National Convention in August 2024
Obama Presidential Center is reflected in the West -Lagune in Jackson Park in September 2024
The center is being built on the south side of Chicago in the vicinity of Chicago, where Barack Obama taught a ground -statue right, and just north of the neighborhood where Michelle Obama grew up.
The campus of around $ 700 million is expected to include a museum, Obama Foundation offices, a public library and recreational space.
With the delays, the budget is bleached from his proposed $ 500 million to more than $ 700 million. Obama has raised the money from private donors and his center will be managed by his foundation.
The final opening, previously planned for 2021 before the challenges arose, is now planned for 2026 – a full 3,100 days since Obama left the office.
In the meantime, Barack and Michelle Obama seem determined to set up a united front in an attempt to fight the rumors around their marriage after the former president was alone in Jimmy Carter's State Funeral and the second inauguration of Donald Trump.
Her absence revived rumors that the first first pair has or will separate, rumors that they are trying to combat with a united front.
The last time Barack and Michelle Obama were seen together was in mid -December, more than a month ago, when they got out of dinner in Los Angeles (above)
Jennifer Aniston publicly made 'absolutely false' claims from a US Gossip Magazine that she and Barack had a relationship.
The former president made it clear that he and his wife are a team in a newly shared explanation about the horrible plane crash in Washington, DC last Thursday.
While he shared a moving message to the people who lost loved ones in the tragedy, Barack Terms such as 'Our Hearts Break' and 'Michelle and I send our prayers' – a subtle conclusion of the continuous speculation that they are on their way to a divorce .
Michelle, 61, then brought his emotional function to her own account.
But the last time the couple was seen together, was at the beginning of December, more than a month ago, when they came out for dinner in Los Angeles.
Photos of the evening show Michelle smiled at cameras while she left the popular celebrity hotspot mother Wolf – while her husband left her husband, with a more serious expression.
Last October, actress Jennifer Aniston publicly concluded 'absolutely untrue' claims of a gossip magazine that she and Barack had a relationship.
The rumor was exacerbated by the hosts of a popular pop culture podcast that? Every week, who claimed that the Obamas 'lived separately' while he and Jennifer had a complete affair.
The star of friends told the late night host Jimmy Kimmel: 'I met him once. I know Michelle more than him. '
