On again, off again, on again . . .

According to recent bundling disclosures by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, a controversial past Obama bundler and campaign supporter is back raising money and donating to the upcoming inauguration. (More after the jump.)

Robert Blackwell, the head of Chicago-based Killerspin, is a $55,000 bundler, according to the list provided on the PIC's Web site. Blackwell also is listed as having donated $50,000 of his own money, according to the PIC's list of donors.

Until late April 2008, Blackwell was listed as a bundler for Obama's presidential campaign, credited with raising at least $100,000.

In April, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Blackwell paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer starting in early 2001 to give legal advice to one of his companies. The relationship lasted more than a year and netted Obama $112,000. Shortly after the final payment, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to Killerspin. The day after the letter was penned, Blackwell donated $1,000 to Obama's Senate campaign.

A few days after the LA Times article was published, Blackwell's name disappeared from the campaign's list of campaign bundlers, never to return.