What a hilarious slanting of the REAL story.
Buying a lot next to someone's house isn't a crime. So why include that?
Obama helped put one of these deals together during his time as a junior associate at Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland. Other lawyers at Davis Miner helped Rezko acquire half of the properties that fell into disrepair. And many of these properties were located in the district Obama represented as an Illinois state senator.
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Even if Obama can claim plausible deniability about the deteriorating shape of Rezkos slums, he faces a more difficult challenge in explaining why he entered into a real-estate deal with Rezko after the Chicago papers had run over 100 stories about the clouds gathering over Rezkos head. When the Obamas were looking for a new house in the summer of 2005, Rezko helped them buy their dream home by purchasing an adjoining lot they could not afford, then selling them a strip of the land on which they wanted to build a fence. Obama admitted to the Sun-Times that when he bought the strip of land, he knew Rezko was going to have some significant legal problems, and characterized his decision to buy the property anyway as a boneheaded move. Obama said he proceeded with the transaction because Rezko had always acted in an above-board manner with me and I considered him a friend.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTQyNjk1MmZhNDYyZjQ0OGNlMDIzOGMzZDQwMjk3NTY=
I don’t quite get it: did Rezko give obama land for obama’s house? You mentioned a strip of land for a fence.