Posted on 12/09/2008 8:28:25 PM PST by advance_copy
The sentencing of former Democratic National Committee fund-raiser Joseph Cari Jr. has been delayed at the request of prosecutors.
It's a sign the feds want to use Cari as a witness -- again.
Cari, who has admitted guilt in a corruption case, is a former campaign fund-raiser for Vice President-elect Joe Biden, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Blagojevich. He was supposed to be sentenced months ago, after he testified against Tony Rezko, the former fund-raiser for Blagojevich and President-elect Barack Obama. But that was put off, and no new date has been set.
At Rezko's trial, Cari testified that Blagojevich told him he planned to reward big campaign donors with state contracts. The governor has denied having that conversation.
Cari pleaded guilty more than three years ago to attempted extortion involving an investment company that wanted business from a state pension fund.
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hmmm, perhaps that is why Al Gore particularly uncomfortable today at the meeting on Global Warming, Global Change, presser today with O and Biden.
This just keeps getting better!
This indictment could end up being disastrous for Obama.
I wonder if he’s on any of Fitz’s tapes?
Is everybody with a (D) behind their name tied up in this mess? Hope so! ;-)
Perhaps Cari should change his last name to “Canary” when he enters witness protection ;-)
If he isn't offered witness protection, he can look foreward to a shiv in the shower.
It would be hard to imagine former Senator Barack Obama has NOT had a telephone conversation with the governor of his state during the past month.
American Thinker writer Rosslyn Smith noted that “Biden and Obama have friends in common in the Daley Machine.” She cited the links between Joe Biden and Joseph Cari, Jr., and between Cari and Antoin “Tony” Rezko. We already know about Rezko’s real estate association with Barack Obama, which Obama characterized as “a bone-headed mistake.”
Daley’s brother and former Secretary of Commerce for Clinton, Bill Daley, is contemplating a run for Illinois Governor.
“When the Delaware senator began contemplating his own 2008 presidential run, he initially was helped by Chicago lawyer Joseph Cari, Jr., who also served as Biden’s Midwest field director in his failed 1988 bid for president.
“In 2005, Cari admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme that prosecutors say was part of a larger political fund-raising operation for Gov. Blagojevich overseen by Rezko, and was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption involving state deals.”
“A veteran Democratic fundraiser (Cari) testified Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich once offered to give him his pick of contracts and state business in exchange for help building a nationwide political money machine as a prelude to a presidential run.
“The governor said ‘that there were contracts, legal work, investment banking work and consulting work to be awarded to people who helped,’ Joseph Cari recalled as he took the stand in the federal corruption trial of Blagojevich insider Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
“The allegations by Cari, once a finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee, were the most explicit accusations of pay-to-play politics leveled against Blagojevich at a trial where he is not even the defendant.”
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