WASHINGTON -- Federal Housing Finance Board Member Geoff Bacino has left government and forged a lobbying alliance with one the most prominent firms in town.
Bacino is rebooting his own firm--Bacino and Associates--which will partner with the firm run by the son of Sen. Joe Biden.
The firm started by Bacino, who also served as an NCUA Board member for one year and has represented credit unions in Washington, will be located in and partner with the law firm of Oldaker, Biden and Belair. R. Hunter Biden, the firm's founding partner is the son of Sen. Biden, who has served as a U.S. Senator from Delaware since 1973 and was selected as Sen. Barack Obama's running mate in August. Bacino's assistant and policy adviser, Jonathan Lindley, will join him in his new firm. Lindley has held several positions in the credit union community, including as a NASCUS executive.
"I have enjoyed my federal service as a board member and regulator of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Under the leadership of Chairman Ronald Rosenfeld, the Federal Housing Finance Board was well on the road to becoming a world class federal banking regulator. I will miss the many friends that I had made both in the public and private sector while serving in this post and hope that our paths will cross again," Bacino said in a statement announcing his resignation from the board, which took effect on Nov. 2.
--cmarx@cutimes.com
