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Jailed Obama Fundraiser Spills the Beans
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Posted on 10/11/2008 12:57:40 PM PDT by DocT111

CHICAGO -- Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.

Rezko also was friendly with Obama -- offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko's trial, there's no indication there'll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee -- even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.

"I think this strikes fear into the Blagojevich administration and the Statehouse Democrats but not into the Obama campaign," says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.

Rezko, 53, a real estate developer, was convicted in June of scheming to use his clout with the Blagojevich administration to squeeze $7 million in kickbacks out of a contractor and seven money management firms seeking to do business with the state.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: corruptdems; duplicate; fundraiser; macainpalin; mccain; nobama; obama; rezko
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Hmmmm...would like to be a fly on the wall for that meeting....
1 posted on 10/11/2008 12:57:40 PM PDT by DocT111
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“Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened,” he wrote. “They are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama.”


2 posted on 10/11/2008 1:02:37 PM PDT by pennboricua
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I’ll believe it when I read it.

What do we know about: Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.


3 posted on 10/11/2008 1:03:14 PM PDT by bluerose (Palin For President!)
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To: DocT111

Nothing is going to happen to OZERO pre-election the chicago thugs will see to it. IF any damaging info leaks it will be AFTER the election.


4 posted on 10/11/2008 1:05:03 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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"I think this strikes fear into the Blagojevich administration and the Statehouse Democrats but not into the Obama campaign," says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.

Great....another idiot Obamanized.

5 posted on 10/11/2008 1:06:09 PM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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6 posted on 10/11/2008 1:06:16 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: pennboricua

If he does that, I can see the prosecution putting him away for 100 years.


7 posted on 10/11/2008 1:06:20 PM PDT by RC2
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To: DocT111

Nothing against you for posting this BUT this has been posted MANY times on this forum. NOTHING is going to happen BEFORE this election to stop the ascension of “the messiah” to power. My wife and I were having breakfast in a restaurant today and two black ladies came right up to our table and asked about our Apple Pancake. I am so angry over this “political coup of an election” that all I could do was look down at the table. Obama told them to “get in our faces” and today they got in our faces. Now, maybe this was just a simple question but I have NEVER had this happen before nor would I go up to someones table and ask such a question. Obama supporters are already drunk with glee!


8 posted on 10/11/2008 1:06:36 PM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Thank you Lord Jesus :)

9 posted on 10/11/2008 1:08:24 PM PDT by Lady GOP
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could be explosive,

after the election of course.

/s


10 posted on 10/11/2008 1:08:33 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Osage Orange

>> Great....another idiot Obamanized.

Are you talking about Dillard? or McCain?


11 posted on 10/11/2008 1:08:59 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: bluerose

He appeared in an ad for obama.

http://www.wurfwhile.com/blog/2008/09/11/illinois-state-senator-kirk-dillard-plays-the-hand-hes-dealt/


12 posted on 10/11/2008 1:08:59 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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Bottom line, don’t want the McCain campaign getting into this other than repeating the charges with Obama’s name on it when indictments hit.

Rezko may be safer from his Chicago Mob Machine friends in jail.

It’s amazing how Obama has skated on his house scam with Rezko.
Would a Republican be able to pull that off? I just don’t think so.


13 posted on 10/11/2008 1:09:05 PM PDT by romanesq
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Sounds like a comercial in the making.


14 posted on 10/11/2008 1:09:36 PM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: DocT111
One of the reasons no one in the Obama campaign operation is bothered by any of this is simply that none of them know the difference between right and wrong anyway.

They are corrupt to the core.

16 posted on 10/11/2008 1:12:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Might want to read the last paragraph.

Obama’s name has not surfaced in accounts of the investigation since the trial. But Rezko himself raised it in a letter to the judge months ago.
“Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened,” he wrote. “They are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama.”


17 posted on 10/11/2008 1:12:41 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Nervous Tick

Probably the guy I quoted.........: )


18 posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: teletech

“My wife and I were having breakfast in a restaurant today and two black ladies came right up to our table and asked about our Apple Pancake. I am so angry over this “political coup of an election” that all I could do was look down at the table. Obama told them to “get in our faces” and today they got in our faces. Now, maybe this was just a simple question but I have NEVER had this happen before nor would I go up to someones table and ask such a question. Obama supporters are already drunk with glee!”

What the heck? I hope you are a troll. If that is all that the “two black ladies” said to you, you were out of line ignoring them.


19 posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:54 PM PDT by TNLawyer (McCain/Palin'08......Great job with your VP pick, McCain!)
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To: DocT111

Antoin “Tony” Rezko should shut his mouth then expect a full pardon from his good buddy obamma lamma ding dong.
Cause I gots a feeling the Chicago and Illinois mob (I mean democrat party) is not going to look kindly on him spilling the beans


20 posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:59 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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