Obama surfaces in Rekzo's federal corruption case (Merry Fitzmas from the Clintons)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | January 20, 2008 | DAVE MCKINNEY, NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND TIM NOVAK

[Popman]

Interesting post.

I always wondered about the relationship between the Obama organization and the legal crime syndicate called the Democratic party in Chicago (Daley Machine)

Looks like Obama has to deal with both the new and the old democrat crime syndicates: Clinton's and the Daley enterprises

I wonder how long before have a consigliere meeting between the two organizations to see how much payback the Clinton's will owe if the the Daley machine help take down Obama

[Cobra64]

If this doesn't work...

Then this:

[Chi-townChief]

Joseph Aramanda? Pizza franchises??? Any chance that Rezko (and, in turn, Obama) is mobbed up?

(BTW, I’m 1/2 Italian extraction so maybe that’s why my antennas go up reading this.)

[Deo volente]

Now that Norman Hsu has been carted off to prison for three years and Hillary has put all that ugly business behind her, it’s time for the Clinton machine to turn its undivided attention to crushing the candidacy of one Barack Obama.

They will do whatever it takes to get back into the White House. Expect more revelations in the days and weeks ahead.

[Hardastarboard]

Fitzgerald was supposedly sent to Chicago to clean up the mess. The fact that he "convicted" Scooter Libby while IGNORING Mayor Daley tells you pretty much all you need to know about Fitzgerald.

The fact that he's now after Obama tells me that he's working with the Clintons, or that someone's (Daley?) feeding him information from the Clintons. The timing of this is entirely too coincidental.

[Tunehead54]

Just highlighting an interesting paragraph or two ... Obama’s relationship with Rezko dates to 1990, when Obama, then a Harvard law student, interviewed for a job with Rezko’s development company, Rezmar Corp. Obama turned down the job, instead going to work for a small Chicago law firm — Davis Miner Barnhill. That firm did work on more than a dozen low-income housing projects Rezmar rehabbed with government funds.

Eleven Rezmar buildings were in the state Senate district Obama represented between 1996 and 2004. Many of the buildings ended up in foreclosure, with tenants living in squalid conditions, the Sun-Times reported last year. In one instance, Rezko’s company left tenants without heat for five weeks. Obama said he was unaware of problems with the buildings and minimized the legal work he’d done.

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Just building slums on the government's dime ...

[PJ-Comix]

Joseph Aramanda? Pizza franchises??? Any chance that Rezko (and, in turn, Obama) is mobbed up?

Kind of like running a private gargbage collection company in New Jersey.

[4Liberty]

Thank goodness the Clintons are perfectly clean....

otherwise, they’d look like vicious, power hungry, ruthless hypocrites.

[webstersII]

Yeah, it's definitely more moral to take illegal money from Chinese influence peddlers than from corrupt Chicagoans. The Clintons are the original grifter couple.