URGENT: Big story about to break, we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
Posted on 10/11/2008 2:40:06 AM PDT by Roger W. Gardner
URGENT: Big story about to break, we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
The Sun Times today gave a major clue that Barack Obama will indeed go down with Tony Rezko, sooner rather than later. It looks as though Rezko is about to turn on Alexi Giannoulias, the 30-year old State Treasurer of Illinois (who was elected only because Obama backed him).
Here’s where all the clues are…and then we’ll walk you through the local Chicago politics on how today’s hint by the Sun Times has us convinced, for the first time ever, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could indeed send Barack Obama to jail. We need to repeat that: we never believed, until now, that Obama would go to jail for anything related to Rezko. Today, this breaking news about what Rezko is singing to the Feds about makes us reconsider all of that. Barack Obama will serve a prison sentence in the next few years — because knowing Fitzgerald, there is no reason he would be going through all of this if that was not the targeted goal in the long term.
(1) Michael Sneed in her Sun Times column 10/10/08 had the following tidbit: Sneed hears rumbles political fund-raiser/fixer Tony Rezko, who is now singing sweetly to the feds from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been talking about his “dealings” with a Chicago bank, which has political connections.
(2) We just spoke with someone well-connected in Chicago politics who told us that the bank Sneed is talking about has to be Broadway Bank, which is owned by the politically-connected Giannoulias family. We were told that Sneed’s column confirms rumblings people we know heard independently that Tony Rezko is giving up the Giannoulias family to Patrick Fitzgerald — Rezko and the Giannoulias family are as close and tied together as anyone in Chicago could be. If Rezko is turning on them, then Rezko is going to give up Governor Rod Blagojevich and Obama too. We don’t want to end up in cement shoes for implying anything here, but if you live in Chicago for any length of time, you hear rumors about Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family, and insert Tony Soprano references here. Kapeech?
(3) So, Rezko is singing about the Giannoulias family and its longtime “business dealings” in Chicago, which would interest someone like Fitzgerald and the Justice Department, who have had a long ambition to crack Soprano-style business dealings in Chicago (the city known for Al Capone hasn’t changed much, really). The next plate to drop in this will be Fitzgerald then leaning on the Giannoulias family to give up someone bigger than them, who Fitzgerald once discussed in terms of hoping “he has the morals to do the right thing”, to paraphrase. We now believe that person Fitz was talking about is Barack Obama.
(4) The Giannoulias family was involved with Obama as far back as his first state senate campaign in 1996. It has been long rumored here in Chicago that Obama obtained a sweetheart deal on his first town home here in Chicago — which he could not have afforded otherwise — and guess who the financing came from for that house? We’ve been told it was Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias bank. Now, this sets up a scenario where the Giannoulias family helps Obama with his campaign finances and gets him deeper in their pocket with his sweetheart mortgage deal (for the first home he owned that he could not afford) – all in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined later.
(5) One favor political Chicago claims Obama did for the Giannoulias family was in 2006 when, out of the blue, 29 year old Alexi Giannoulias, with no experience, and without ever having voted before, decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois. Also out of the blue, Barack Obama endorses Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer. This was a SHOCK to everyone in Chicago — and Giannoulias would have never become State Treasurer without Obama’s help. In political circles here, it has always been believed that this endorsement was bought years ago with that sweetheart mortgage deal Broadway Bank arranged for Obama to buy his town house.
(6) So, the Tony Rezko sweetheart deal was not the first magic home loan Obama ever received to buy a house he could not afford. There’s more to this that looks like it will break soon. We were STUNNED when we read Sneed’s column because we never in a million years believed Fitz would actually be able to take down Obama. We do not believe this will come out before the election, however, but we do believe Fitzgerald will continue his prosecution to the highest level, because that is what he does. Jean Valjean got off easy, compared to what it’s like to be in the crosshairs of perhaps the greatest prosecutor this nation has had in a generation. Patrick Fitzgerald is a force of nature.
Sneed’s clue can only mean Broadway Bank…we’ve now heard this from several people in Chicago. And Broadway Bank can only mean Giannoulias. And Giannoulias leads to Obama through that town house home loan and the quid pro quo political endorsement several years later. And that home loan ties back to Rezko, in that it was the first of two shady home buys Obama made with quid pro quos attached to them.
Just thinking that last paragraph out, Obama’s defense in the Rezko business was that he never did anything for Rezko so there was no quid pro quo. What the Giannoulias and Broadway Bank stuff proves is that Obama sits in people’s pockets for a while before the favor is given. He bought that town house sometime between 1997-2000 or so, since he lived there for a few years before trading up to the Obama Mansion with Rezko’s help in 2005, after he was in the United States Senate. And it looks like the payback was not given to the Giannoulias family until 2006, with Obama’s endorsement of Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer.
This all stems from Sneed’s clue in today’s Sun Times. She says to stay tuned for more, so please do that.
Dare we dream?
I will beleive it when I see it, and not a moment sooner
I saw so much of this crap when Clinton ran in 1992. People will circle the wagons to protect this mutt.
Rezco is a convicted felon now; his word isn’t going to be worth much, I reckon.
::: YAWN :::
Obama’s going down.
No...the Sun-Times ALWAYS gets it WRONG!
> Dare we dream?
“The Audacity of Handcuffs”
We will live to see the day Obama does the perp walk. Chicago is cleaning house. That day will come soon.
I pray you are right.
Don’t hold your breath! It’s the American people that are going down. This country has been on a downhill slide for a long time, and just when ya think we might have hit bottom, a whole new level shows up.
In Wisconsin, Sarah Palin said that she needs OUR help to get the MSM to report on the REAL issues. She’ll fight them, but she said she can’t do it alone. The article above is one of those issues! Please help Sarah take on the MSM by sending a link to this article to the media contacts below:
Rush Limbaugh: ElRushbo@eibnet.com
Glen Beck: me@glennbeck.com
Sean Hannity: Hannity@foxnews.com
Mark Levine: offair@radioinsidescoop.com
Reuters: david.schlesinger@reuters.com
AP: info@AP.org
Scripps-Howard News Service, Jennifer Sergent (Washington Correspondent): sergentj@shns.com
Boston Globe: letter@globe.com
Boston Globe: ombud@globe.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Jack Barry (General Manager): jbarry@suntimes.com
Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Cooke (Editor in Chief): mcooke@suntimes.com
Christian Science Monitor, Feedback: http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/contactus.pl
Houston Chronicle, News tips/Editor: citydesk@chron.com
Investor's Business Daily, IBD Editorial Department: ibdnews@investors.com
Kansas City Star, Steve Kraske: skraske@kcstar.com
Media Matters for America, News Tips: mm-tips@mediamatters.org
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Richard Foster (Editorial writer columnist): rfoster@journalsentinel.com
New Republic, Editors: online@tnr.com
Wall Street Journal, Greg Hitt: greg.hitt@wsj.com
Washington Post: ombudsman@washpost.com
Washington Times, John McCaslin: jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com
PBS The News Hour with Jim Lehrer: newshour@pbs.org
CBS Face the Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com
CBS Sunday Morning: sundays@cbsnews.com
CBS 48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
FOX News Sunday: FNS@foxnews.com
FOX News Watch: Newswatch@foxnews.com
FOX & Friends: Friends@foxnews.com
FOX Your World with Neil Cavuto: cavuto@foxnews.com
FOX News Live w/ Jamie Colby: Jamie@foxnews.com
FOX Report w/ Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
FOX Special Report with Brit Hume: special@foxnews.com
FOX On the Record with Greta Van Sustern: ontherecord@foxnews.com
CNN Lou Dobbs: loudobbs@cnn.com
CNN Wolf Blitzer: wolf@cnn.com
CNN Anderson Cooper 360: 360@cnn.com
IMPORTANT: Be sure to add your name and town, and when emailing be sure to send “BCC” as a group or just send individually so it will look like it went only to them. If they see that it’s also being sent to others they’ll write it off as a mass email, and won’t read it.
Light your torches, grab your pitchforks, and tell the MSM what America is REALLY thinking about. MAKE it the news. Your email account is your weapon, and this is war. So lock and load, and use your electronic Liberty Teeth! Roar like an Alaskan bear!
A close friend of mine who is, shall we say, “acquainted” with Chicago politics first hand once told me “If you play the game in Chicago, it’s not a matter of *if* you get indicted, but rather *when* you get indicted.
I hope his observation has some merit in this case.
On the other hand, jail is too damn good for Zero.
Whatever happened to the SwiftBoat Veterans for Truth?
A fellow serviceman needs 'em and their 527 money.
This sounds very "and then if you connect THIS dot waaay over here" to be effective, especially since Obama can say "Governor Palin has just been found guilty of wrongdoing and they're just trying to change the subject."
As a Southern born and raised conservative libertarian who now finds himself in Crook County (Chitcago suburbs), here’s what I have to say:
Stop playing games with my heart freepers. This better be legit. Daley, Blago, and Obama are obviously crooks many times over, to anyone with any shred of honesty. But there are too many Chicagoans who’d rather keep taking handouts to shrug their shoulders and vote the petty tyrants back into office, so I’m having a really hard time believing this.
About the best I’ve been hoping for is for Blago (and Daley?) to go down, coupled with a massive RICO case for ACORN, and Obama escaping legally but being tainted enough to lose the election. For Obama to actually get hit with charges seems too good to be true.
But if this is legit...
I’ll wait until it’s announced. Obama will end up paying worse than Palin could ever.
But, again, I wait for the best and expect the worst...best being Obama’s criminal indictment, and expect the worst, that the media kill the story.
Another “birth certificate” story? I don’t think anything will stop the Obama led Socialist Revolution...
Nothing about birth certificate here.Wrong Obama scandal /s
Thank you and good for you!
rg
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.