Barack Obama Rewards Elite Donors, Huntsman Invests in New Video and More in Capital Eye Opener: June 16 http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/barack-obama-rewards-elite-donors.html

TOP MONEYMEN LAND PLUM POSITIONS: OpenSecrets Blog has reported in the past about President Barack Obama's big-money bundlers landing top ambassadorships to countries such as France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Bahamas. Now, iWatch News, the collaborative investigative reporting effort of the Center for Public Integrity and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, adds more data to that trend.

"More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish 'special interests' from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events," iWatch News reported Tuesday.