In 1982, TransUnion was acquired as a subsidiary of Marmon Group, a holding company formed by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker. It was spun off as a separate company under Pritzker control in 2005. The wealthy Pritzker family, most famous for owning the Hyatt hotel chain, began divesting the family's assets in late 2001 following the death of Jay Pritzker. Notable major divestitures include Hyatt Hotels Corp. public in 2009 and selling majority stake in TransUnion in 2010.[1] In April 2010, the Pritzker family, with Penny Pritzker as TransUnion Chair, sold controlling interest of TransUnion to a new majority owner, the Chicago-based private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners.[2] Madison Dearborn Partners acquired 51 percent stake in TransUnion, and the Pritzker family maintained 49 percent ownership. It is based in Chicago, Illinois.
dividual owners and lighter on commercial stations that could serve multiple users. Those factors, according to the report, undermined the goal of easing range anxiety in the original markets."The real problem is the policy approach of the Obama administration," said Paul Chesser, of the National Legal and Policy Center. "The department of Energy and, really ECOtality, were in an impossible situation. President Obama says, 'There's going to be 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, so here are billions to make it happen.' And then nobody buys the cars."It's a disastrous domino effect, a complication of a policy that was a bad idea," Chesser said.Under the plan, all charging stations were to be used to gather data from users, but many commercial stations were so seldom used that they proved useless in gauging public satisfaction.The lack of analysis by the Department or ECOtality prevented us from determining whether the reasoning behind these changes was sound and in the best interest of U.S. taxpayers, the IG wrote.Although the audit found no issues with the selection of Ecotality for the project, Chesser said the company relies more on political connections than expertise in winning taxpayer grants. ECOtality began as a maker of biodegradeable products, but in 2006 jumped into the electric car industry. And the company has been upfront about its business strategy of going after government money.Im a political beast, ECOtality Pr
Tenn.Days earlier, Obama accused the House GOP of risking another financial crisis by issuing ultimatums over the debt ceiling and government funding."We've seen a group of Republicans in the House, in particular, who suggest they wouldn't vote to pay the very bills that Congress has already racked up," Obama said. "That's not an economic plan. That's just being a deadbeat."Obama has reason to be cautiously optimistic about the Senate, which passed a far-reaching immigration overhaul Obama sorely sought with bipartisan support and struck a deal over Obama's nominees that has led to a flurry of confirmations after months of logjam. A number of prominent GOP senators have also criticized a Republican plan to threaten a government shutdown unless funding is cut off for Obama's health care law.But even in the Senate, there's skepticism about Obama's intentions. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Obama's contrasting tone about the House and Senate amounts to a divide-and-conquer strategy that calls into question the White House's outreach."These discussions have been going on for five years and no agreements have been reached yet," Sessions said. "It could be the president is playing the Senate like a fiddle."On most issues -- including pressing tax and spending matters -- Senate and House Republicans are unified in their opposition. There was no telling Republicans apart Tuesday, for instance, as they panned a corporate tax cut and jobs spend
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