Posted on 06/17/2009 9:35:10 PM PDT by Piranha
William Moorehead, the Oak Park resident sent to prison in 2007 for stealing more than $1 million from various federally supported public housing concerns, apparently ran with a powerful inside crowd connected to both Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a then-state senator named Barack Obama.
Published news reports show that Moorehead was once a "longtime business partner" and legal client of Allison Davis, who until recently was the business partner of Daley nephew Robert Vanecko. Davis is also often referred to as Obama's mentor, a role he reportedly fulfilled as the future president's first law firm boss.
At one time, William Moorehead & Associates managed 14 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-insured or -subsidized apartment complexes throughout the Chicago area totaling about 7,000 units. Moorehead's fraud and mismanagement was uncovered in the course of an audit conducted by HUD's inspector general in 2003 and 2004.
Moorehead, now 66, pleaded guilty in April 2006 to engaging in a scheme to defraud HUD of at least $995,000 between early 1994 and August 2002. In May 2007, he was sentenced to four years in the Marion medium-security facility. He's scheduled to be released March 25, 2011.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that during the period Moorehead admitted he was stealing money, he loaned Davis $100,000. Davis has not been accused of any wrong doing.
One of the Davis-controlled HUD buildings that Moorehead's firm managed, from 1999 until 2001, Grove Parc Plaza, was taken over by a firm headed by another person with strong Obama connections.
Valerie Jarrett, a member of Obama's campaign finance committee and now a senior White House adviser, was the chief executive of Habitat Co. in 2001, when it took over management of Grove Parc Plaza from Moorehead's company.
Obama was hired out of law school in 1993 by Davis's law firm, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland PC, and worked on voting rights and employment cases. According to press accounts, he reportedly wrote letters as a state senator, helping Davis and partner Tony Rezko get $14.6 million in state and federal funding for Cottage View Terrace, another Moorehead-managed property.
Moorehead, who also co-owned two housing developments near Cabrini Green with Davis, was supposed to manage another Davis co-owned HUD building, Cottage Grove Terrace, but was reportedly "dumped before it opened in 2002, in favor of Davis's son, Cullen."
The thugocracy started earlier than we knew.
~~Chicago Crime............ PING!
Pingaroo.
Obammaloo connection and History ping~
Can you imagine what American life would be if we’d had a free and objective press for the last fifty years?
“That wasn’t the Moorehead I knew, and besides I haven’t even talked to him in 15 years”
Like the ‘Clinton Machine’ - albeit, this a more intricate one - cannot fathom how it is; with every corrupted choice these people make; the illegalities; the lies; the subterfuge; subversion. . .how DO they manage to keep it straight?
So maybe it will come home; hopefully, in this life; but somehow; while these people enrich, empower themselves while destroying our Country; the ‘when’ becomes a palpable concern.
What interesting news to wake up to. If we know this, think of what the FBI and Fitzpatrick must know! Makes a person smile doesn’t it! Wonder if the cell mate is wearing a wire?
Thanks for posting the article.
“He’s scheduled to be released March 25, 2011. “
Just in time to get freshened up and ready for a new czar position with Obama.
Now you see the importance of the teleprompter, and controlling the questions of the media.
That would take a lot of imagination, and an assumption that most people would prefer to 'think' for themselves, instead of being told what to think.
You have identified the crux of the whole state of our nation. It is not that they want to destroy our nation. It is that the only way to enrich and empower themselves is by destroying it.
Thanks for the ping. Haven’t heard squat about this in the State Run Media. Looks like this source is a neighborhood newsletter or something...lol.
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thank you. Actually, i thought it would get more attention here at Free Republic as well.
Yes. . .good point.
You know, most people get trapped if they tell one lie; these people; beat the odds a thousand-fold; every day. Just the 'weight' here; makes you wonder how they can walk upright. But 'Chicago Education' no doubt; helps a great deal; that and Marxist 'values'/sigh/. . .
lol. . .if only.
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