Posted on 12/13/2008 12:08:27 PM PST by Phoenix11
Let's run down the list, shall we...
1. Allison Davis, Obama's boss at his law firm, was a player in the extortion attempt in the Board Games case. Davis also partnered with Rezko and received taxpayer subsidies to rehab apartments and homes, getting deal after deal from Mayor Daley. Daley, Davis, Rezko, Blago, and Obama have all worked together to obtain government funding for said "housing development". In exchange, the slumlords have financed Blago and Obama's political careers.
2. Two politicians specifically received donations from the kickback schemes. You guessed it. Blago and Obama. From the first pay-off, 20K was funneled through the pizza businesses to Obama.
3. Rezko was a major player in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars by shaking down firms doing business before two boards that Stuart Levine served on, the Teachers Retirement System and the Hospital Facilities Planning Board. Blago, his campaign manager, Obama, along with others, got Levine re-appointed to the Hospital Facilities Planning Board.
4. John Rogers, the head of an investment firm that ended up with major money from the pension funds, was a member of Obama's finance committee for his Senate and Presidential run. Others on the finance committee for the Senate run: Tony and Rita Rezko, Allison Davis, and Mike Cherry.
5. After Rezko's indictment, Obama donated all of the $11.5K that Rezko gave in campaign contributions. Ha, funny thing is, it turned out to be close to 250K.
6. Massuda was one of several members of the Health Facilities Planning Board appointed by Blago to serve after he won legislative approval to overhaul its membership. Who signed off on the legislative approval? You guessed it, Obama.
7. Mayor Daley, endorsed Obama for President. So, "in the spirit of reciprocation", Obama endorsed Daley and his running mates despite various City Hall corruption scandals. Oh yeah, Daley's brother also got a job as an Obama advisor.
8. Alexi Giannoulias became state treasurer after Obama vouched for him. In return, Giannoulias agreed to raise money for Obama's Presidential run. While Alexi was overseeing Broadway Bank's loans, the bank made more than $12 million in loans to Michael Giorango, now convicted bookmaker and prostitution ring promoter. Alexi held a fundraiser for Obama in Sept. 2007, a fact that Obama tried to keep hidden. Alexi also served on Obama's finance committee (Presidential).
9. Valerie Jarrett, met Michelle Obama while Michelle worked for Mayor Daley. In 2006, Jarrett was given a high-ranking job by the University of Chicago, Michelle's employer, to be chair of the Medical Center Board and the newly created Executive Committee of that board.
10. Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer for "legal advice" for a technology firm he owned. As a "thank you", Obama wrote a letter so that another company Blackwell owned could receive a state grant.
11. After Blago was elected governor, the TPS board was stacked so that favored investment firms were able to invest parts of the retirement fund’s $30 billion in assets. The "Co-Schemers", including William Cellini, then demanded kickbacks and worked to funnel money to Blago and Obama's political careers.
12. The "Co-Schemers" then reduced the size of the HFP board from 15 to 9 members, stacking it with 5 so that they had the majority. In 2004, the HFP board approved the building of a new hospital, though state analysts said it was not needed. Barack Obama was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services and was in on the correspondence for the TPS and HFP boards. The reason the hospital was not built? Fitzgerald. The builder of the hospital paid bribes to those who made the construction of the hospital possible. Kiferbaum pleaded guilty and is now singing like Rezko.
If Obama had an ounce of respect for Democratic voters, he'd drop out of the race before the details of the corruption in Illinois spread to the rest of the country. If the leaders of the Democratic party had a lick of sense, they would inform Obama right now that under no circumstances will his name be on the ballot come fall.
Thanks to the Pravda like press the "details of corruption" remained hidden until after he was elected.
BOOM
SCREEN SHOTS AND SAVE THE ENTIRE WEB PAGE to your hard drive
Where is Alexi!? Haven’t heard a word from him about all this...Haven’t heard a word from alot of Dem politicians. Have they gone into hiding??
And now that Obama has been elected, the lid pops off. But Blagojevich will not be pleading guilty. He will fight this every step of the way. Hopefully, we'll have a very public trial about the corruption in the Illinois Democratic Party, just before the 2010 election.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00200.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0809/S00006.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00341.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00452.htm
Impertinent question. I know dozens of people who go from 100K to 300K salaries overnight. /s
Yes, and McCain said he was an “honorable” man.
Collegiality is one thing, but either these people are completely clueless or they are accomplished liars or they have an entirely different concept of “honor” than I do.
Welcome aboard.
One of the best vanities ever...definitely the best I’ve ever seen from a newbie.
Obama Paid By Donor Who Got State Grant
At the time, Obama had recently completed his unsuccessful campaign for Congress, and had numerous debts and a law practice he had neglected for a year while campaigning, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Obama had been so strapped for cash that his credit card was initially rejected when he tried to rent a car at the 2000 Democratic convention, Obama disclosed in his book “The Audacity of Hope.”
The monthly payments from EKI supplemented Obama’s $58,000-a-year part-time state Senate salary, and eventually totaled $112,000.
Thank you for posting this, without news like this all we would have is what the MSM tries to unload on us.
BTW: I am reasonably confident that the FEDS know where all the monies are hidden.........!
Thanks for the ping.
Merry Fitzmas to you and Rambette. I hope she and Jr. Silverback are going well.
She is doing well, and we now know that we’re having a little girl.
Thanks for your prayers!
bttt
You might also axe what Michelle did for that 300K since nobody at the hospital could really say. Hard to say what she did since she was rarely there. Probably being the ideal mom so who cares about a little Graft.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I’ve email or refered this thread to dozens of folks...You’ve given them an excellent jumping off point for even more research.....THANK YOU
Well done.
Thanks for the ping!
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