Hillbuzz article is even juicier!
“Here’s some of what Dan Morain said about Yesse Yehudah in 2008:
As a presidential candidate, Obama has been critical of the congressional system of doling out money for pet projects. But he is no stranger to pork-barrel politics and the practice of spreading government money around his district. In Springfield he once directed state funds to a nonprofit group headed by a Republican and former ballot foe, Yesse B. Yehudah.
Yehudah barely registered a ripple of meaningful opposition, drawing only 10% of the vote in his 1998 challenge of Obama.
The following year, a nonprofit run by Yehudah, a social services organization called Fulfilling Our Responsibility Unto Mankind, began seeking state support. At the same time, Obama was considering mounting an ambitious challenge to U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush, a fellow Democrat.
Former foe Yehudah stepped up early to help. In November 1999, five people who worked for the Republican’s nonprofit organization each gave $1,000 checks to Obama’s congressional campaign committee. Yehudah makes no secret of his goal.
“We want [politicians] to know that when we sit down, we’re serious,” Yehudah said. “They know it when a $1,000 check comes in.”
Obama lost his congressional bid. President Clinton backed incumbent Rush, who received twice as many primary votes as Obama. Obama was left with a $40,000 debt.
Later that year, Yehudah associates pitched in an additional $5,000 to help retire Obama’s debt. The contributions were recorded on Oct. 7, 2000, three days after the Illinois Senate, at Obama’s behest, approved a $75,000 state grant to Yehudah’s nonprofit, state records show.
In an interview, Yehudah said the commitment for the grant was secured months earlier, in July. He called timing of the donations a coincidence.
The donations were modest by political standards, as was Obama’s relatively small assist to the nonprofit group of his ex-rival and new benefactor. But in Illinois, “government actions often occur around the time of campaign donations,” said Stewart of the Better Government Assn. “The answer is always the same: It’s always a coincidence.”
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said there was no connection between the campaign donations and the grant to Yehudah’s organization. “Of course not,” he said.
By 2002, Obama was preparing for his next challenge, a run for the U.S. Senate. Also that year, the Illinois attorney general sued Yehudah over allegations of kickbacks unrelated to the state grant. It was settled out of court.
Three days after the suit was filed, Obama returned one batch of donations totaling $5,000.
This Yehudah business is tied into Tony Rezko, because Tony Rezko had his hand in almost every crooked deal like this back then…and many of you probably know Rezko as being the man who helped Obama buy his house (by buying the land next door, that the Obamas could not afford, so that they could meet the purchase stipulation for the propety, which required both the house and the adjacent land to be bought on the same day).
Rezko is connected to the Giannoulias Mob Banking family through Broadway Bank, which many of Rezko’s crooked deals laundered money through. Rezko made deposits, then the Giannoulias family would loan large sums to all sorts of criminals, with Alexi himself claiming he never knew “the extent of their criminal operations”.
All of this ties into Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, Jan Schakowsky, Mayor Daley, Valerie Jarrett, and all sorts of other crooks you know who are in various positions of power and prominence, because they all took money from the same corrupt troughs, got rich off various Chicago area land deals and other schemes, and made sure thieir relatives and personal friends all received Michelle Obama-style “consulting fees” whenever possible. This is how Chicago works.
So, if there is a “Big Scandal” it is most likely related to someone out there being ingenious enough to connect all the various scams and schemes this cast of characters was engaged in…and present it in a way that the public understands…with all the crimes, graft, bribes, and pay-to-play corruption pointing right to Obama himself.”
Interesting
That is a fascinating read!
IIRC, Frank Davis was once part of or did business with Broadway Bank so this all goes way back.
UPDATE!
Could the Black Panthers, Voter Fraud, and other illegal Obama 2008 actions be the BIG SCANDAL the “White House Insider” was talking about?