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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: So whats up with this Rezko dude? |
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From what Ive been reading, it sounds like this might be the only October Surprise on the horizon for Obama. According to Mickey Kaus in Slate...
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| Rezko Alert! Federal prosecutors have moved to delay sentencing of former Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko, the Chicago Tribune reports. ... The obvious suspicion is that he's talking. Or at least talking about talking ... |
Does anyone know the exact details of what this guy has done, and how it might relate to Obama? On Wikipedia, they said something about Obama writing a letter on Rezkos behalf about getting some community center built. Im wondering if this is gonna be of interest to anyone outside of Chicago. |
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: Re: So whats up with this Rezko dude? |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
| Does anyone know the exact details of what this guy has done, and how it might relate to Obama? |
http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/766215,CST-EDT-carol30.article
Obama's connections:
Rezo was a fundraiser for Obama and gave him tainted money. Obama has since donated the money to charity.
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| 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. |
What Rezko has done:
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| 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. |
More info on the Chicago Sun-Times web site:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/rezko/
If there's anything worse, any kind of quid pro quo, Rezko isn't going to rat on anyone. McCain can't say much when he's got Keating in his past. Although I'm sure he'll try to make it an issue at some point. |
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