• Cory Booker helped found a video  aggregation start up site called Waywire
      • Financial disclosure forms show that he  appointed Jeff Zucker’s 15-year-old son Andrew on the company’s advisory  board
      • Andrew has since quit.  A few hours after his role was publicized
      • Google’s Eric Schmidt and Booker pal  Oprah Winfrey are both investors
      • Booker is now running for the empty New  Jersey Senate spot

C.R.O.N.Y. CORRUPT-ITALISM – The 15-year-old son of CNN president Jeff Zucker has resigned from his position on the advisory board of Cory Booker’s start-up after it was revealed that the teenager had a leadership role in the company and receiving stock options for his work.
Public face: Cory Booker, the current mayor of Newark, New Jersey who is now running for Senate, is the founder of a video aggregation start up and he stands to make $1million to $5million out of the companyConnected: Andrew Zucker, who is now 14 but is pictured here with his father Jeff in 2009, is listed as a member of Waywire's advisory board
Hours after the news broke that Zucker’s teenage son Andrew was listed as a member of the video aggregation start-up, a CNN spokesman said that he resigned from the company.
The spokesperson also made a concerted effort to distance Booker, the current Newark mayor who is running for the open New Jersey Senate seat, from the decision to bring the younger Zucker on board.  (READ MORE)

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