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Critics want Blagojevich to retrun Rezko money
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Critics of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich want him to return campaign money raised by Tony Rezko. |
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Obama Caught Being Smug & Arrogant About Rezko - Gate Home
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Smug Obama Plans To Rent Rezko-Gate Home, 2 Days After His Friend & Fundraiser Rezko Is Convicted |
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Rezko & Obama, Two Of A Kind?
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CHICAGO - A day after Barack Obama sealed the Democratic nomination for president, a corruption scandal involving a fundraiser who helped bankroll his past campaigns resurfaced to slightly dampen the festivities.
Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, 52, was convicted yesterday of fraud, money laundering and aiding and abetting bribery in a plot to squeeze illegal payoffs out of firms hoping to do business with the state.
Republicans are already capitalizing on Rezko's ties to Obama, even though the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is accused of no wrongdoing and his name was barely mentioned at trial. |
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Obama, Auchi & Rezko - A Time Line Of Conspiracy?
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The Obama, Auchi, Rezko Timeline?
Spring 2004: Nadhmi Auchi visits Illinois and Michigan, attending an event at Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Senator Obama shakes hands with Middle East businessmen at event at Four Seasons in Chicago, but aides say he does not remember Mr Auchi
2004: Mr Auchi makes first investment in 62-acre land development project Riverside Park in Chicago, according to Mr Rezko's lawyer.
June 16, 2004: AR Pizza established in Delaware. Mr Auchi is "passive investor" in the company
April 28, 2005: Mr Auchi's conglomerate General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) lends $3.5 million to Tony Rezko
May 23 2005: Fintrade Services SA, a Panamanian company related to Mr Auchi, registers loan to Mr Rezko, secured by Mr Rezko's stake in AR Pizza
June 15 2005: Mr Rezko's wife Rita buys garden plot on same day as Obamas buy neighbouring mock Georgian mansion from same seller. Mrs Rezko pays asking price of $625,000, with a $500,000 mortgage. Obamas pay $1.65 million, which is $300,000 less than the asking price
September 30 2005: GMH makes $11 million loan to Mr Rezko
November 2005: Mr Rezko lobbies US State Department and, apparently, elected officials to try to get a US visa for Mr Auchi, prosecutors say
December 7 2005: AR Pizza sued by Papa John's pizzeria chain
January 2006: Mrs Rezko sells 10-foot strip of garden plot to the Obamas for $104,500
November 2006: Mr Rezko tells court he is broke. Mrs Rezko says she has salary of $37,000 and $35,000 in assets
December 28 2006: Mrs Rezko sells remainder of garden plot to Michael Sreenan, a lawyer for her husband's business, for $575,000
Spring 2007: Mr Rezko flies to London to meet a "business partner", court records state
April 4 2007: Mr Auchi's GMH makes $3.5 million loan to Mr Rezko, transferring the money from Beirut to Mr Rezko's lawyers
June 13 2007: Mr Rezko informs the court that he will reduce his interest in the 62-acre Riverside Park project in Chicago from 40% to 20% to reduce his debt
July 5 2007: GMH wires $200,000 to Mr Rezko's lawyers
December 5 2007: Mr Rezko writes to GMH affiliate in Beirut to arrange a further $3.8 million cash plus forgiveness of $200,000 in return for liquidating his remaining stake in Riverside Park
January 28 2008: Mr Rezko jailed for violating his bail by failing to declare $3.7 million in payments from Mr Auchi's companies
March 2008: Mr Rezko's corruption trial begins in Chicago.
April 18, 2008: Rezko Released from jail on 8.5 Million Bond. He is now on house arrest during his trial. |
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Obama - Fundraiser, Rezko Released From Jail on $8.5M Bond
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Antoin "Tony" Rezko will be allowed to go home for the first time since January after the judge in his fraud & corruption case agreed to release him on $8.5 million in cash and property.
The decision of U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve came after the judge questioned Rezko and property owners who will put up their homes for his release. She called the bond one of the highest she has seen at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.
During the trial Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said Rezko and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development.
Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year after attempting to wire him more than $3 million. Upon learning of that attempt, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve declared Rezko a flight risk and ordered him held in a federal jail in the Loop.
The Rezko party in 2004 was designed to induce Auchi to pour money into the South Loop investment. Obama's presence at the party was not previously known. At the time, Obama was fresh off a surprise win in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and was riding a crest of national publicity. |
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Judge Orders Rezko Freed on $8.5 Million Bond
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Political fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko was freed on $8.5 million bond Friday pending the outcome of his trial on charges of scheming to get kickbacks from firms seeking state business. (April 19) |
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Alan Keyes slams Obama for Rezko connection
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Do we know Barack Obama?
Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2007:
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8. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL): A "Dishonorable Mention" last year, Senator Obama moves onto the "ten most wanted" list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin "Tony" Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of the company's shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law."
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007
Rezko cash triple what Obama says:
"DONATIONS | $168,000 traced to indicted businessman, associates over the years"
Source:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/432197,CST-NWS-obama18.article
How independent is Obama?
Obama's claim of independence questioned:
"...Obama is raising more than his opponents from executives of some of the corporate interests he criticizes. Obama has received more money from people who work at pharmaceutical and health product companies, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. He's taken in $528,765 through February, compared with $506,001 for Clinton and $139,400 for McCain, despite saying last July that 'I don't take pharma money.'"
Source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-15-obamainside_N.htm
'Pig Book' names congressional porkers:
"Sen. [Barack] Obama had 53 earmarks worth $97 million dollars."
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/02/pork.spending/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Obama Announces FY08 Federal Funding Requests:
http://obama.senate.gov/press/070621-obama_announces_3/
Make an informed decision...
Know Barack Obama by visiting:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
Know all the presidential hopefuls:
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008_Speculation.htm |
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Corrupted Obama - The Antoin Rezko case
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"Not guilty"
The use of this phrase isn't the only thing Barack Obama and Antoin Rezko have in common.
Obama insists he's just gullible but we ought to give the Democratic presidential nominee more credit than that. But where's the 'change'? We've always had lying and corrupted politicians!
Additional note:
Obama has released his tax returns for 2006 ONLY and this was just the form; no attachments were released. He didn't release the 2007 one. His tax return forms from all his time in the Senate are not available to the public either.
When Obama spokesperson, Bill Burton is asked about any pre-2006 or 2007 returns, he says he "will keep you posted."
Some info about MIchelle's 2005 tax return: Her salary as an administrator at the "not-for-profit University of Chicago Hospitals" nearly tripled to $316,962, from $121,910 in 2005. |
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Hillary Clinton's site exposes Rezko Obama Shocking Truth
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Shocking truth about Rezko in Chicago and Obama's yard. Patrick Fitzgerald and Sue St. Ann (judge) are gunning for Obama, making Ashcroft proud for appointing them. Hillary Clinton's website, Hillaryis44 is pushing out negative attacks on Obama, with hints that his ethics are as weak as Clintons.
You be the judge.Local Chicago reporters grilled Obama on his relationship with Rezko, whose trial begins in Chicago today, and suggested that he was not transparent about their business dealings when the story first broke. Obama disputed this notion, arguing that he held a press conference in Chicago to discuss the issue. He called Rezko a friend and a supporter, but argued that charges against Rezko are unrelated to him. |
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Obama Ohio Texas about Rezko headlines in Chicago Clinton
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Obama's shocking Rezko headlines for texas and ohio and hillaryis44 attack site and war room shocking headlines.Local Chicago reporters grilled Obama on his relationship with Rezko, whose trial begins in Chicago today, and suggested that he was not transparent about their business dealings when the story first broke. Obama disputed this notion, arguing that he held a press conference in Chicago to discuss the issue. He called Rezko a friend and a supporter, but argued that charges against Rezko are unrelated to him. |
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Hillary Clinton doesn't remember "slum lord" friend
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On Friday morning's episode of the Today Show on NBC, host Matt Lauer discussed Monday night's testy debate between presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL). In particular, he focused on her allegation that Obama had represented Tony Rezko, the indicted Chicago businessman whom she referred to as a "slum lord." |
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Obama wrote letters of support for deal involving Rezko
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Situation Room 6/13/07 |
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