...The full-color picture - obtained exclusively by the Daily News - was taken early this year....
GOP donor Robert Toussie - whose scammer son Isaac was pardoned and then unpardoned by Bush - poses with the president earlier this year.
Who are these guys and how much of a part did they play in this mortgage mess? Clerks or Organizers? What banks are involved and why? BASICALLY, after 45 years of 'sorta getting away with it' and building a power base the entire time, what is their 'rhelm' of influence in the real estate market and are there mimics by others?
"What the deal?" Why were they so successful that they had to be called before the Department of Housing and Urban Developement? They must have more than a local influence to have national attention. Were they a model for Republicans that were looking to build false agendas of hope for political gain in areas normally Democratic? How deep does their 'model' of fraud go and who else out there was following it? Why? And under whom's direction?
In other words, "Who is the big boss?" Why was Paulson's plea so late? So Emergent? There has to be permission for these boys somewhere !
You know, if Toussie, Jr. has a worthwhile story to tell, he should turn 'state's evidence' and spill his guts on what he knows asking for a lesser sentence.
...Isaac Toussie pleaded guilty in 2001 to lying to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to get mortgages for unqualified homebuyers.
Both Toussies face suits accusing them of fleecing hundreds of blacks and Latinos who bought overpriced, shoddy houses.
There was no answer at Robert Toussie's door yesterday.... 
Toussies' trail a doozie: Bush missed half-century of corruption, scam claims against father and son (click here)
BY WILLIAM SHERMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, December 26th 2008, 12:50 AM
President Bush turned Brooklyn's Isaac Toussie into a poster boy for outrageous presidential pardons, granting, then rescinding, the order in 24 hours.
The mystery is how the administration ignored Toussie and his father's background - a tale of payoff and corruption allegations spanning more than 45 years - in pardoning the son for a massive housing scam.
White House officials did an about-face after they learned - by reading it in the Daily News - the father of scamster Isaac Toussie donated $28,500 to the Republican National Committee.
The rags-to-riches story began with Toussie's father, Robert, who clawed his way out of poverty to build empires in the clothing and real estate businesses.
Although the Toussie family record is filled with suits and scam allegations, as well as the fraud conviction that drew the pardon, it is also a story of triumph and contradiction....
