Posted on 04/28/2010 6:35:47 AM PDT by opentalk
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lawyers are asking the judge in his corruption case to bar testimony from convicted fixer Tony Rezko....
The lawyers said any witness convicted of a felony and still awaiting sentence would feel too much pressure to say whatever the government wanted to hear.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Why hasn’t Rezko been sentenced yet? It’s been almost two years since the Chicago real estate developer was convicted on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges.
After months of unexplained delays, Rezko’s January 6th sentencing date was canceled again – this time indefinitely – by U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve, a former Whitewater prosecutor. Reporters were initially told that Rezko was cooperating with prosecutors, but he apparently stopped talking and demanded to be sentenced as soon as possible. That request was obviously denied.
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Well, it would seem that the focus of this article is the reason.
And besides, Rezko has no doubt already made his deal with Hussein.
Apparently Mr. Rezko is familiar with the name “McDougal”.
Watch for Rezko to get a presidential pardon when Obama is voted out in 2012.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Rezko was moved from Chicago’s downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center on December 16th, even though it’s right across the street from the federal courthouse where Blago will be tried. Rezko’s not listed on the federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, either.
“Nobody knows where he is,” a source in Chicago told The Examiner.
—spelling==December to a secure area that no one knows about.
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