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Obama and Rezko Local news on Obama's "slumlord" ally. Tags: obama |
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Brian Ross on Obama and Tony Rezko ABC's Brian Ross details the financial dealings between Barack Obama and Chicago influence peddler Tony Rezko Tags: barack obama tony rezko chicago |
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Rezko Guilty of 16 Counts in Corruption Case PlusRezko Guilty of 16 Counts in Corruption CaseRezko Guilty of 16 Counts in Corruption CaseThe Associated PressTony Rezko, a prominent fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevic was convicted of fraud and money laundering after a federal trial that gave a glimpse of the pay-to-play politics that has made Illinois infamous. (June 4)[Notes:VO --REZKO WALKING INTO COURT] FOLLOWING A 9-WEEK TRIAL --- JURORS FOUND ILLINOIS POWERBROKER TONY REZKO -- SEEN HERE WEARING A COAT AND TIE --- GUILTY OF FEDERAL FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING AND BRIBERY CHARGES. [Notes:SOT -- PATRICK FITZGERALD/U.S. ATTORNEY]anyone who followed the trial of the last couple of months had to be appalled by the conduct that was involved....and we're very gratified that the jury took the time and the effort and care to step up and sort through the evidence...and come to a verdict. [Notes:VO - TRIAL SKETCHES] JURORS FOUND REZKO GUILTY ON 16 OF 24 COUNTS -- INCLUDING SCHEMING TO GET KICKBACKS FROM COMPANIES SEEKING STATE BUSINESS.BUT HE WAS ACQUITTED ON 8 CHARGES --- INCLUDING ATTEMPTED EXTORTION. [Notes:SOT --PATRICK FITZGERALD/U.S. ATTORNEY]16 times a jury agreed with us....obviously we're gratified by that and respect the verdict...on those counts...on the eight counts where the jurors disagreed with us...we equally respect the verdict. That's our system.DURING THE TRIAL -- REZKO'S ATTORNEYS ARGUED THE GOVERNMENT HAD LITTLE EVIDENCE TYING HIM TO CORRUPTION -- AND SAID THE PROSECUTION'S STAR WITNESS WASN'T CREDIBLE BECAUSE YEARS OF DRUG USE HAD DAMAGED HIS MEMORY. [Notes:SOT-- JOSEPH DUFFY/DEFENSE ATTORNEY] We strongly believe in mr. Rezko's innocence...as does he....and it's our intention to pursue...certain matters...and post trial motions and file an appeal. [Notes:VO--FILE OF OBAMA]TESTIMONY BARELY TOUCHED ON REZKO'S RELATIONSHIP WITH BARACK OBAMA -- ALTHOUGH THEY'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR YEARS -- AND THE TWO WERE INVOLVED IN A REAL ESTATE DEAL THREE YEARS AGO. [Notes:VO -- PHOTO OF ILLINOIS GOVERNOR] MOST OF THE FOCUS WAS ON SHAKEDOWNS PROSECUTORS SAID REZKO PERFORMED AS A TOP ADVISOR FOR THE STATE'S GOVERNOR. [Notes:SOT -- JUROR]In terms of Senator Obama....we didn't hear anything new....we heard a whole lot new about rezko and governor blagojevich and his administration. [Notes:VO -- SHOTS OF OBAMA AND GOVERNOR] NEITHER OBAMA NOR THE GOVERNOR HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF ANY WRONGDOING. [Notes:VO--SHOTS OF REZKO]MEANWHILE ---- REZKO WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING THE VERDICT.HIS SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER. ___ ___, The Associated Press. Tags: fundraiser trial rezko guilty 16 counts corruption case |
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Obama Avoids Answering About Rezko Today Barack Obama skipped out early on a press conference with reporters asking about his ties to corrupt Chicago fundraiser Tony Rezko. Tags: Barack Obama Tony Rezko Lynn Sweet ABC |
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Obama - Wright - Rezko - Racism - Michelle - REPACK 5 Minutes worth of surfing. This is what you find easily. If you are supporting Obama then you are a joke. This man is as fake as they come. Check your facts. Tags: Obama Wright Rezko September Terror Politics Michelle Clinton Respond CNN MSNBC O'Riley America |
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Barack Obama - The Cult Continues - Tony Rezko Cnn Headline News Examines Barack Obama's Friend's and his Sleazy Chicago Politics, as well as his Cult Like Followers who refuse to see anything other that the Messiah Image delusion they have Created. Bill Clinton Vanity Fair Sleazy Scumbag is the Result of a Barack Obama campaign hit job. Clinton supporter Harriet Christian Did Michelle Obama use the word "Whitey? In a Stunning Move by the D.N.C. Rules and Bylaws Committee on Saturday Gave Barack Obama 4 Pledged Delegates specifically won by Hillary Clinton. Harold Ickes explains how the rules committee of 30 has Decided to supplement their judgement for the 600,000 Michgan Voters, Hillary Clinton now has the Option of taking this appeal to the Credentials Committee at the Convention In Denver, UNTIL THEN A BARACK OBAMA NOMINATION WILL NOT BE VALID! Barack Obama Steals Hillary Clinton Michigan Delegates SelectPlusRaw Video: Massive Fire at Universal StudiosRaw Video: Massive Fire at Universal StudiosThe Associated PressA massive fire raged on a back lot filled with movie sets at Universal Studios early Sunday, spewing thick, black smoke as it devoured several buildings. There were no immediate reports of injuries.(June 1)This video contains ONLY natural sound. No script is available. studio fire raw video: massive universal studios No Quarter was the first to report on this story but now Fox News has this. Roger Stone, "this has little to do with the general election and a lot to do with why hillary clinton is staying in the race. look, there is already a buzz in washington at least seven news organizations have contacted me. wanting to know how to get their hands on this tape, giving me more information than i had after i had spoken to each one of them. i now believe the tape exists and i believe a network has it. if this pans to out to be true based on michele obama's previous comment that this is the first time she had been proud of her country which i think shows an attitude it is problematic." whitey michelle obama barack hillary clinton fox geraldo rivera delegates trinity pfleger wright ayers dohrn protest. Tags: Barack Obama Rezko Scandal Hillary Clinton President Whitey Tony Bill John McCain news grassroots outreach documentary commentary analysis |
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Corrupted Obama - The Antoin Rezko case "Not guilty" The use of this phrase isn't the only thing Barack Obama and Antoin Rezko have in common. Obama insists he's just gullible but we ought to give the Democratic presidential nominee more credit than that. But where's the 'change'? We've always had lying and corrupted politicians! Additional note: Obama has released his tax returns for 2006 ONLY and this was just the form; no attachments were released. He didn't release the 2007 one. His tax return forms from all his time in the Senate are not available to the public either. When Obama spokesperson, Bill Burton is asked about any pre-2006 or 2007 returns, he says he "will keep you posted." Some info about MIchelle's 2005 tax return: Her salary as an administrator at the "not-for-profit University of Chicago Hospitals" nearly tripled to $316,962, from $121,910 in 2005. Tags: Barack Hussein Obama Jeremiah Wright Hillary Bill Clinton John McCain president 2008 democrat republican Tony Rezko |
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More Obama Cheating? Rezko Paying Off Mayors? Gary, IN to Chicago, IL - Distance: 32.25 miles, Estimated Driving Time: 43 minutes Having raised half a million dollars for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko got the Governor to appoint Rezko's own men to the Teachers' Retirement System, among them Stuart Levine, now indicted. And Rezko got Allison S. Davis appointed to the Illinois State Board of Investment, in control of billions in state retirement funds. Although Davis has not been charged with wrongdoing, the feds are reportedly pressing a probe of that agency. Davis is currently the president of that State Board. Barack Obama was a Harvard Law student in 1990 when he interviewed for a job with Tony Rezko's slum-redevelopment firm. He didn't go directly into the Rezko company. But in 1993 Obama was hired by Allison S. Davis, whose law firm (Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland) represented Rezko's operations over the years, while Rezko raised cash for Obama's electoral campaigns. Davis became Rezko's personal financial partner in slum-redevelopment deals, which were then backed by State Senator Obama. In one of those deals, after both Obama and Davis had left the law firm, Obama wrote letters to state and city housing officials supporting the proposed Cottage View Terrace apartments, a project run by Tony Rezko and Allison S. Davis. The deal cost taxpayers $14 million and the partners got $855,000 in fees. Completed in 2002, the project is now managed by Davis's son Cullen Davis. The Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2007 that Cottage View Terrace was originally supposed to be managed by Davis's longtime business partner, William Moorehead, until Davis's son was substituted. Moorehead was sent to prison in 2007 for stealing more than $1 million from the public housing projects he managed, including two he co-owned with Allison S. Davis. - The University of Chicago and the CBOT - The Obama-Davis nexus also reflects the higher echelon Anglo-American financier oligarchy, that influences politics and culture through such power centers as the University of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). When Barack Obama ran for U.S. Congress against incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush in 2000, the Chicago Reader reported "whispers" that "Obama is being funded by a `Hyde Park mafia,' a cabal of University of Chicago types, and that there's an `Obama Project' masterminded by whites who want to push him up the political ladder." Obama was then a state senator and University of Chicago law lecturer. The district was 65% black, but included the rarified Hyde Park neighborhood, home of Obama and of his employer, the University of Chicago. The black community was markedly unfavorable to Obama's challenge against Rush, a former Black Panther, who defeated Obama 61-30 in the Democratic primary. The "Hyde Park Mafia" purportedly backing Obama's rise was centered in the University's campaign for school reform, along the lines of the Ford Foundation and British efforts to corral American slum residents into blind, self-defeating local politics. William Allison Davis, the African-American father of Obama's law boss Allison S. Davis, was the University of Chicago's "John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor"; he was a teacher in the Education Department from 1942 to 1978 and advisor until his death in 1983. Though the elder Davis was deeply associated with civil rights concerns, he was also deeply enmeshed in the London-Wall Street axis sinking its claws into African-American politics, education, and psychology. His mentor at the University of Chicago was anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner, an organizer of the "human relations" movement run through the Britain's notorious Tavistock Institute and largely financed by the Rockefeller family. The Rockefellers paid for much of William Allison Davis's own career, their largesse allowing him to study under eugenicist Julian Huxley in England. This University of Chicago gang was the policy base for the Saul Alinsky slum-herding crusades, which the young Barack Obama joined as a paid organizer in the 1980s. Obama moved the impoverished residents to fight around entirely local concerns, while the politics of the nation collapsed into the "conservative revolution." After getting his Harvard law degree, Obama came back to Chicago in the 1990s. He had met his wife Michelle while she was a member of Sidley Austin, the law firm for the financial oligarchs at CBOT, the Chicago Board of Trade. He interned under her direction in that firm in 1989 (a year before interviewing with Rezko). From 1996 on, Michelle Obama was an executive with the University of Chicago, at last rising in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Her husband was employed by the University, from 1993, until he ran for United States Senate in 2004, with help from Tony Rezko. Tags: barack obama hillary clinton john mccain indiana north carolina pastor wright mickey kantor abc news |
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Rezko Clinton Obama Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of having an association with a "slumlord" named Tony Rezko. While there is a photograph of Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton with Tony Rezko. So how can Hillary Clinton question the relationship Barack Obama had with Tony Rezko, when Bill and Hillary pose for a picture with Tony Rezko? Tags: Rezko Bill Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Democratic debate president Democrat Republican commentary analysis vote |
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Judge Orders Rezko Freed on $8.5 Million Bond Political fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko was freed on $8.5 million bond Friday pending the outcome of his trial on charges of scheming to get kickbacks from firms seeking state business. (April 19) Tags: il fundraiser-trial judge orders rezko freed on $8.5 million bond |