Michelle Obama's cousin, the rabbi

Oy!

As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show.
In 1999, Obama arranged for $50,000 for adult literacy and counseling services offered on Chicago's South Side by a group called Blue Gargoyle. A $25,000 grant for the group's youth services followed the next year.
The group's executive director when the grants were awarded was Capers Funnye, a South Side rabbi and Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed.

Which, if I remember my genealogy, means that one of the rabbi's siblings married Michelle's cousin. Rusty's all excited about the conflict-of-interest angle. Me, I'm just laughing at the anti-Semitic tin-foil hat conspiracists, whose heads will explode at this news: Those neocons have everything covered!