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Dear Friends, Last week FamousDC became famous. Like Drudge famous. Like now Nancy O’Dell is following us on Twitter famous. Like maybe if we weren’t anonymous, we would make one of those fancy Capitol File lists famous. As our readers know, this change in status came about after we posted …

So, some folks have been giving us a little heat for posting our beer pong story. But that is all about to change, sports fans. Yesterday morning, Cleveland morning news anchors chatted about the Vietor and Favreau excursion, gave us our props, and discussed how fun it must be being …

Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast. Washington Post: Hey isn’t that…: Desirée Rogers, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau, Ty Burrell Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau shirtless at Old Glory on Sunday. The White House spokesman and the chief speechwriter appeared to be playing beer …

Sure, others may spin at Privilege in Ibiza‎, but who else can say they’ve been all DJ quick hands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? DJ Truman in the House, er, the White House!

It’s good to be Bo. Bo is the Sixteen Hundred Dollar Dog, according to Barack Obama’s newly released financial disclosure form for 2009. In the White House’s reckoning, that’s the market value of the dog the Obama family received as a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his …

Meet John Stanton: Congressional reporting, fireworks eating, all-American bad ass. Mr. Stanton took a break between covering the SCOTUS madness for Roll Call and brutal Gaelic football practices to answer a few questions for a FamousDC Famous 5 interview. 1. You’ve been on the hill for several years and we …

Who needs a research department when you have Wikipedia? President Obama presented a revised version of history at the correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night when he unveiled issues of POLITICO from previous centuries. And while POLITICO certainly didn’t exist during the Civil War or the fight for America’s independence, the …

It wasn’t even close. Once again, the standup routines of Barack Obama and then Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night demonstrated that the most dangerous job in comedy is following the president of the United States—especially when the latter has better writers. [trounces] And who exactly …

Reuters Oddly Enough: Bring your banker, we’re grilling out!

CNN’s Ed Henry snapped this photo today when the defending champs met with President Barack Obama and the First Family at the White House. h/t Kevin Madden

It costs $50 to print each bill, but trust us it’s well worth it.

We hear … A NY based news source is preparing a FOIA request of the entire SEC related to potential SEC – White House – DNC collusion. Stay tuned. RELATED: Full time line

Tuesday, April 20 Things are heating up. Daily Finance: Goldman Sachs Earnings Double to $3.5 Billion as Firm Faces SEC Suit Embattled Goldman Sachs (GS) said Tuesday that thanks to its trading and investing prowess, its first-quarter profit doubled to $3.5 billion, easily beating analysts’ expectations. Matt Drudge is still …

We can’t get enough of this story so we are going to post an update each morning of the latest developments. We will continue to update the full time line. Monday, April 19 Don’t call it a comeback. Politico: Spitzer: Goldman suit no coincidence “This was not a coincidence,” asserted …

Wow, things really escalated quickly. Friday, April 16 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors. [kick off] POLITICO’s Marty Kady questions the timing of the SEC’s charges [Twitter] Convenient timing: Huge SEC charges against Goldman land week before …