Obama's Buddy gets convicted

[JustRalph]

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=198654


From the article:
And while he also wouldn't comment on what Wednesday's conviction means for the governor, Fitzgerald was clear that the trial showed Illinois is a cesspool of corruption.
"Anyone who followed the trial … had to be appalled by the conduct involved," he said.

The investigation is continuing, he noted.


Since the early 1990s, the Syrian-born, U.S. citizen Rezko has been a key fundraiser for both Chicago and Cook County politicians as well as a close friend to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential front runner.

Obama has acknowledged Rezko helped raise about $250,000 for his state senate and U.S. Senate campaigns. And Illinois' junior senator hasn't been able to shake suspicions over Rezko's roll in Obama's purchase of a Hyde Park home.

Rezko bought an adjacent vacant lot at the same time Obama purchased the house in 2005. Rezko later sold a piece of the lot to Obama so he could expand his side yard. Obama called the move "boneheaded" but has said nothing improper or illegal occurred in the dealings.

[King Ritchie]

Anybody else with this much bagage wouldn't have a chance of being the President. Can someone explain how Osama has made it this far? Oooooopppps........ sorry I mean Obama - easy to confuse - guess the only difference is the color.

[46zilzal]

In all the years you have know other people NONE of them have EVER had a run-in with the law? Come on now that would include anyone who lives in society.

JR hangs around with criminals. The occupation mandated it. We could make up the same nonsense about you too.

This guy is a politician....the nature of the job is corruption.

[Marshall Bennett]

Anybody else with this much bagage wouldn't have a chance of being the President. Can someone explain how Osama has made it this far? Oooooopppps........ sorry I mean Obama - easy to confuse - guess the only difference is the color.
This is only carry on baggage , they'll need a freight train to hold everything between now and November . :D

[jballscalls]

Clinton had Roger Clinton, and Bushy himself got arrested for a DUI in 1976. These politicians all have 'baggage' involving the law.

[46zilzal]

Clinton had Roger Clinton, and Bushy himself got arrested for a DUI in 1976. These politicians all have 'baggage' involving the law.
Next will come the "manufactured" dirt, a la Karl Rove, who did it to McCain before.

[ddog]

This is only carry on baggage , they'll need a freight train to hold everything between now and November . :D


it won't be about the baggage, it will be about the teflon.

is the public so disaffected that it will come down to anything alive except the PUGS?

That's the only question.

M. Obama could burn the flag on Fox news.

He could put H.Rap Brown on as veep , but the same test will decide.

[JustRalph]

JR hangs around with criminals. The occupation mandated it. We could make up the same nonsense about you too.

hangs around with? Is that a euphemism for "tracks them down and jails them" ok, guilty :lol:

[Tom]

You dont take them home for dinner and a movie?????

[ddog]

only the purty ones...
:D

[JustRalph]

Having a hard time keeping track of the facts? Here are eight things to know:

1. They met in 1990. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School and got an unsolicited job offer from Rezko, then a low-income housing developer in Chicago. Obama turned it down.

2. Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers -- primarily not-for-profit groups -- building low-income housing with government funds.

3. One of the firm's not-for-profit clients -- the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama's then-boss Allison Davis -- was partners with Rezko's company in a 1995 deal to convert an abandoned nursing home at 61st and Drexel into low-income apartments. Altogether, Obama spent 32 hours on the project, according to the firm. Only five hours of that came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, the firm says. The rest of the future senator's time was helping WPIC strike the deal with Rezko. Rezko's company, Rezmar Corp., also partnered with the firm's clients in four later deals -- none of which involved Obama, according to the firm. In each deal, Rezmar "made the decisions for the joint venture," says William Miceli, an attorney with the firm.

4. In 1995, Obama began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Among his earliest supporters: Rezko. Two Rezko companies donated a total of $2,000. Obama was elected in 1996 -- representing a district that included 11 of Rezko's 30 low-income housing projects.

5. Rezko's low-income housing empire began crumbling in 2001, when his company stopped making mortgage payments on the old nursing home that had been converted into apartments. The state foreclosed on the building -- which was in Obama's Illinois Senate district.

6. In 2003, Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, and Rezko -- a member of his campaign finance committee -- held a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion.

7. A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife paid full price -- $625,000 -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.

8. Eight months later -- in October 2006 -- Rezko was indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from the alleged kickback scheme was donated to Obama's run for the U.S. Senate. Obama has given the money to charity.

[chickenhead]

Anybody else with this much bagage wouldn't have a chance of being the President.

that's pretty funny.

[ddog]

no that's side splitting HI LARRY US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to pick myself up after that one.

:lol:

[ddog]

j err, lucky for you and some others on this site, Z operation Kay Osh is in effect, facts won't matter in this election even more so than previous.

pipe dream.
light up.