Posted on 12/19/2008 12:25:19 AM PST by hoosiermama
Edited on 02/09/2012 7:04:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Crime in Chicago has been in the news lately, but it is nothing new. Historically it dates back over a hundred years. From the tale of the Gray Wolves
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/540.html
The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a faction of its aldermen known as the Gray Wolves. So named because they were viewed as preying upon the defenseless public, the Gray Wolves were led by First Ward aldermen “Bathhouse” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Mike Kenna, and Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward. These elected officials were not only skilled at trading votes for favors, but once in office they excelled in making municipal decisions to profit themselves financially.
TO the present, it is a compelling historical subject.
“Please post links and information, or connections of dots to this thread. Keep chit chat to the minimum or in Freemail. THANKS!”
This one?
Obama bagman is sent to jail after failing to declare $3.5m payment by British tycoon
FROM:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3284825.ece
An undeclared $3.5 million (£1.8 million) payment from a Iraqi-British businessman has landed Barack Obama’s former fundraiser behind bars.
The payment, disclosed in court papers, is the first time that Mr Obama’s long-serving bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a Syrian immigrant to the United States, has been linked to Nadhmi Auchi, the Iraqi-born billionaire who is one of Britain’s richest men.
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Or this one?
Mansion ‘mistake’ piles the pressure on Barack Obama
A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama’s fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.
The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.
A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama’s bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.
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FYI: Was it this judge?
AROUND THE NATION; Trial Opens for Judge Indicted in Illinois CHICAGO, May 29 (AP) - A jury was empaneled today in the trial of the first of four judges indicted in a three-and-half-year Federal investigation of the Cook County court system.
FROM Here:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E5D8143BF933A05756C0A962948260
Published: May 30, 1984
Judge John M. Murphy, accused of accepting $3,000 in bribes to fix cases, has been charged with mail fraud, extortion and conspiracy to participate in racketeering activities in a scheme involving lawyers, a police officer and an unidentified judge
Judge Murphy, 68 years old, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. He was suspended with pay last December by the circuit’s chief judge, Harry Comerford, when the first round of Greylord indictments was announced.
Additional charges were filed against Judge Murphy in a second set of indictments in March.
Seventeen people, including four former or incumbent judges, have been indicted in the investigation.
How about forming a Chicago Corruption ping list?
YOUNG MURDER + OBAMA
Lot’s of questions across the blagashere....Larry S’s book comin out soon.
Larry Sinclair recently provided information about the murder of Donald Young, the gay choir master at TUCC, and produced the death certificate. Donald Young’s death certificate was obtained legally. Sinclair stated that Jeremiah Wright announced Donald Young’s death before the knowledge became public. It is believed by many that Wright had knowledge of Donald Young’s death and that he may have been involved it it. This obviously is of great concern to the Obama camp because they are aggresively trying to shut down larry Sinclair’s blog and they are threatening me as well.
We as a nation need to rise to the call of demanding an independent prosecutor and investigator be appointed outside the control and authority of the Chicago Police and City of Chicago to investigate this murder as it should have been investigated for the last year.
FROM:
http://www.topix.com/forum/news/2008-presidential-election/TE4JBD3LIBBQST988
Comments on original story:
Tonygarlicnose wrote:
All 3 had sex with Sen. Obama might talk against Obama.
Donald Young signed an affidavit with police and told them he was scared Obama wanted to kill him.
that he had sex with Obama numerous times in Church offices filmed by Rev Wright.
No wonder Rev. Wright holds cards over Obama!
Reply: How do you know this? Do you have a source in the Chicago POlice Department?
From:
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/wp-content...
Young was a forty seven year old choir director and deacon at Trinity United Church of Christ, on 400 W. 95th St, the very church made famous by the candidacy of Barrack Obama. Donald Young was also openly gay. He was also a personal friend of Barrack Obama’s. A roommate found Donald Young unresponsive in his home at 7:30 AM on December 23, 2007. He had been shot multiple times. Christmas presents and jewelry were missing from his home. Interim Police Superintendent Dana Starks said that so far, there is no evidence linking the two crimes. NBC Video.That hasn’t stopped any one from speculating however. Even though the two incidents were reported seperately, they have both become fodder for the Anti-Barrack Obama crowd online.
COmment #6
Jul 15, 2008
Tonygarlicnose wrote:
All 3 had sex with Sen. Obama might talk against Obama.
Donald Young signed an affidavit with police and told them he was scared Obama wanted to kill him.
that he had sex with Obama numerous times in Church offices filmed by Rev Wright.
No wonder Rev. Wright holds cards over Obama!
Reply: How do you know this? Do you have a source in the Chicago POlice Department?
Here are some of EKI’s clients:
Commercial
Abbott Laboratories
Anexsys
Apogee Marketing
Bank One
Chicago Board of Trade
Corn Products
Deluxe Corporation
Earl L. Neal
FMC Corporation
Focal Communications
Hollister
LKQ
Morton’s of Chicago
Motorola
People’s Energy Home Services
Putman Media
Vibes Media
Wrigley
Government & Non-Profit
City of Chicago - Alderman Carothers
City of Chicago - Board of Ethics
City of Chicago - Department of Children and Youth Services
City of Chicago - Department of Environment
City of Chicago - Department of Innovation and Technology
City of Chicago - Department of Public Health
City of Chicago - Office of Emergency Management and Communications
Chicago Transit Authority
Cook County
Illinois Regional Transportation Authority
Museum of Science & Industry
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
Southern Illinois University
State of Illinois - Bureau of Tourism
State of Illinois - Department of Central Management Services
State of Illinois - Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
State of Illinois - Department of Human Services
State of Illinois - Department of Public Health
State of Illinois - Department of Revenue
State of Illinois - Department of Transportation
YMCA of Chicago
Youth Guidance
Are any of these people related to CHicago or Obama? COuntry wide seems to stickin mymind for some reason.
FROM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/25sandler.html?_r=1
SAN FRANCISCO — Herbert Sandler, the founder of the Center for Responsible Lending,......
...Last month, the United States attorney’s office in San Francisco announced dual inquiries into whether World Savings engaged in predatory lending practices or misled investors about its financial well-being. And the bank has been sued by numerous borrowers who claim they were misled into taking out mortgages they could not afford. .....
LONG article with much information abour Wachovia purchase and problems that have arisen....Several names....to cross check.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/
Links to this blog are also posted at #s 20,46, 87, 114, 116, 185 and 188.
Let me fix this. Here is the list of the Sanders’ pet groups:
Moveon.org
ProPublica
America Votes
Center for American Progress
Human Rights Watch
Oceana
From the opening paragraphs of the 24 December 2008 edition of the New York Times:
“SAN FRANCISCO — Herbert Sandler, the founder of the Center for Responsible Lending, is standing in his bayfront office watching a DVD that trains brokers to pitch mortgages by extolling the glories of the real estate boom.
The video reeks of hucksterism, and it infuriates Mr. Sandler.
‘I would not have approved that!’ he declares. ‘I don’t think we should be selling our loans based on home prices continuing to go up.’
But the DVD was produced in 2005 by a mortgage lender that Mr. Sandler and his wife, Marion, ran at the time: World Savings Bank. And the video was a small part of a broad and aggressive effort by their company to market risky loans at the height of the housing bubble.”
More from yesterday’s New York Times:
“Once invited by Congress to testify about good lending practices, the Sandlers were recently parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as greedy bankers who handily sold their bank — and pocketed $2.3 billion in shares and cash — in 2006 before many of their loans began to sour.
Last month, the United States attorney’s office in San Francisco announced dual inquiries into whether World Savings engaged in predatory lending practices or misled investors about its financial well-being. And the bank has been sued by numerous borrowers who claim they were misled into taking out mortgages they could not afford.
At the center of the controversy is an exotic but popular mortgage the Sandlers pioneered that helped generate billions of dollars of revenue at their bank.”
Most analysts now agree that the acquisition of Golden West spelled the end for Wachovia.
Rezko attorney ‘owns’ Obama mansion
Lawyer at firm where Democrat worked receives tax bill
By Jerome R. Corsi
————————————————————————————Posted: December 25, 2008
FROM:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84101
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An attorney for convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko is listed as the owner and taxpayer for Barack Obama’s Chicago mansion, according to records obtained by WND.
William Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which also formerly employed Obama.
The controversy began when a website called News and Commentary for Thinking People published a 48-page document that lists Miceli as the owner of the Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood.
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The law firm changed its name when senior partner Allison Davis left to join Rezko in his schemes to take out loans on low-income housing projects. Several of the transactions remain under investigation, because the millions of dollars Rezko borrowed against the properties to make redevelopments are gone, while many of the properties remain boarded up and uninhabitable.
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Records at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds list Rita Rezko as the holder of the warranty deed for the vacant lot at 5050 S. Greenwood adjoining the Obama mansion, under the PIN number 20-11-115-036-0000.
WND was able to locate warranty information at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds , which Herman at the County Assessor’s office told WND was the “old PIN number” assigned to the Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood Avenue, before the home was sold to Obama.
Neither spokesman could explain to WND the discrepancy in PIN numbers, nor why the Cook County Recorder of Deeds has no information filed under the new PIN number assigned to the property after the Obama purchase.
Rezmar deals involving Davis Miner law firm
From:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353777,CST-NWS-rezside23.article
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Seven buildings on East 62nd Street in Woodlawn. Rezmar and WPIC closed on this deal in 1996. Rezmar gave up its financial interest in the property and stopped managing the buildings a year ago, amid financial problems and code violations.
• Two buildings, 4001 S. Ellis and 811 E. 46th St. Rezmar and WPIC’s sister agency, the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, closed on the deal in 1997, while Obama was a state senator. Rezmar stopped managing the buildings about a year ago, with many of the apartments in need of repair.
• Two buildings — 5630 S. Michigan and 6446 S. Kenwood. Rezmar and the Fund closed on this deal in 1998. The city approved a $3.8 million loan for this project while Rezmar was facing foreclosure on another building funded by the city. Rezmar gave up management of the buildings about a year ago.
That was Rezmar’s last low-income housing deal before the company shifted to building condos and town houses in the South Loop and other booming neighborhoods.
Among the investors in that last Rezmar deal was Davis Miner name partner Allison Davis, who had left his law firm to become a developer of low-income housing. Besides leaving his law firm, Davis also resigned from the board of directors that ran the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization.
Davis’ development company, American Housing Partners, was to invest $250,000 in Rezmar’s last low-income housing deal, state records show. But state officials say that, in the end, American Housing didn’t participate in the deal.
Tim Novak
Is CHi Crime spreading across the nation all ready?
Federal grand jury ...Obama associate, Bill Richardson
From:
http://www.rlcil.org/2008/12/27/federal-grand-jury-probes-another-obama-associate-bill-richardson/
...Apparently, Richardson gave the sales contract to campaign contributor David Rubin, who gave Richardson $200,000 in campaign cash. In exchange, apparently, according to the news reports, Richardson gave Rubin $1.5 million in bond sales fees. Rubin’s company, CDR Financial Products, is based in Beverly Hills.
Rubin is also said to have paid for Richardson’s expenses when he traveled to the Democratic National Convention. “Richardson has ignored reporters’ questions on the federal investigation, while a spokesman says he’s confident the relationship was entirely appropriate and the governor expects state employees to cooperate fully with federal investigators. ...
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