"The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive, " Mr. Obama said.
The son of Nicholas (who came to the U.S. from Kiev) and armed with a law degree from Harvard, "A.N. was doing leveraged buyouts in the 1930s before anybody had even heard of such a thing, " says a onetime family employee.