The Apollo Kid

Fancy hotels, extravagant dinners, private concerts with groups such as Chicago, Sheryl Crow and Earth, Wind, and Fire entertaining you … Damn life must be good to spend $1.6 billion in government bailout money.  What’s that? You haven’t heard the news?  Yessir, well check it, our good friends over at TMZ have pulled the rug from under a Chicago-based bank called Northern Trust.  From the looks of it they went well above and beyond sponsoring a golf tournament in sunny L.A. balling out of control.

A bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money just spent a fortune last week in L.A. hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts with famous singers … and TMZ cameras caught it all.

Northern Trust, a Chicago-based bank, sponsored the Northern Trust Open at the Riviera Country Club in L.A. We’re told Northern Trust paid millions to sponsor the PGA event which ended Sunday, but what happened off the golf course is even more shocking.

Northern Trust flew hundreds of clients and employees to L.A. and put many of them up at some of the fanciest and priciest hotels in the city. We’re told more than a hundred people were put up at the Beverly Wilshire in Bev Hills, and another hundred stayed at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Still more stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Marina Del Rey and others at Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica.

Courtesy of TMZ website

I mean really?  Are you serious?  I’m glad someone is having a grandioso time with my tax dollars.  I’ve never seen Earth, Wind and Fire in PUBLIC, never the less in private, anyway, the above snippet is courtesy of TMZ, check out the rest of the article if you have a chance.