Elizabeth Rosenbaum
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| US Senator | ||||
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| In Office: 2010 - 2017 | ||||
| Preceded by | Chantoya Walker | |||
| Succeeded by | Hys Clematis | |||
| Born | January 16, 1945 New York, New York | |||
| Political Party | Democratic Party | |||
| Spouse | Robert Danby | |||
| Religion | Jewish | |||
Elizabeth Rosenbaum (b. January 16, 1945) is a former United States Senator from California, and member of the Democratic Party. Rosenbaum was appointed by Governor Jeremy Koo in 2010 after Chantoya Walker resigned. Rosenbaum was elected to serve out the remainder of Walker's term in 2010, and re-elected in 2012. She resigned immediately following the 2016 elections after the fallout from her infamous involvement in the blackmail scandal of the Chevron corporation.
Rosenbaum graduated from UC Berkeley in 1962, and from Yale in 1967 with degrees in law. She worked in the NYC District Attorney's office between 1967 and 1980. She married Robert Danby, a fellow lawyer, in 1974. The two lived in Jerusalem from 1980 to 1982, until her father was murdered in Manhattan, prompting Rosenbaum's move to Berkeley, California with her husband and mother in 1982. Rosenbaum worked as a lawyer for the ACLU from 1986 to 1995. In 1994, Rosenbaum was elected to represent California 12th Congressional District in Congress, and served there until her appointment to the Senate in 2010. Rosenbaum and her husband currently live in the bay area.
Chevron Aurora Incident
In 2016, the Chevron Aurora, an oil tanker, sank in the strait of Hormuz. At first, it was thought the tanker struck a mine laid by the Iranian navy. Senator Rosenbaum was passed photographs indicating the Chevron corporation covered up the Aurora's disrepair, the true reason for why the supertanker sunk. Senator Rosenbaum used the photographs to blackmail Chevron. In exchange for keeping the information quiet, Chevron would comply with the Senator's wishes to take their entire fleet out of opperation and repair it, and open a school in inner city Los Angeles. Chevron recorded the Senator's conversation proposing blackmail to them, and counter-blackmailed the Senator to bury the evidence or they would expose her illegal proposition. Rosebaum called the company's bluff, and went to the media with the photos.
Auroragate ended with the Chevron corportation flirting with bankruptcy, and moving their opperations out of the State of California to the Port of Boston, Massachusetts. Chevron sued the firm in Long Beach, California that opperated their maintenance work. Rosenbaum was investigated by the FBI for various felonies. A Grand Jury failed to indict the Senator on any charges, however. The incident occured during the summer of 2016, and is widely believed to have contributed to the Senator choosing to not seek re-election that fall.
