Here’s the third punch: Obama accepted a bribe as a state senator

HillBuzz ^ | October 29, 2008 | HillBuzz

[Pinetop]

NOTE: The article below is from last year. It’s a story that was never picked up by the media (since when have they ever picked up anything about Obama?) and the Clinton campaign did not know what to do with this — people we’ve spoken to said that, in retrospect, they realize what a mistake this was because what Obama did here is actually a prosecutable crime. We were told, specifically, that the bribe Obama took as a state senator is the thing David Axelrod has lived in terror of this whole campaign — he has been praying this does not get out.

[Pinetop]

Okay,HillBuzz has been promoting this theory that there are three punches that will land on Obama. This is allegedly the third. HillBuzz thinks there will be more behind it. I'm a little numb from the heightened anticipation of delayed gratification...

[A CA Guy]

Please feel free to get into far more details.

[festus]

It was paid by African Press International, using Norweigan currency, for exclusive rights to the Michele Obama rant and also for his share of the money from that Nigeran prince.

If I recall correctly.

[Pinetop]

Here’s what HillBuzz says the deal was

“In short, Obama had massive campaign debt coming off of his failed bid to challenge Bobby Rush for a seat in Congress. Smarting from that loss, Obama needed money, so he turned to Yesse Yehudah. What’s so strange about this is that Yehudah is a Republican — so why would he raise money for Obama? What the article below does not say is that, magically, 10 people who work for Yehudah and have never given money to any elected official before - AND WHO COULD NOT AFFORD TO MAKE $1,000 donations - all made $1,000 donations to Obama simultaneously. As if someone else made the donations for all of them, in their names, with money that came from somewhere else.

The quid pro quo on this is simple: Obama took a $10,000 bribe from Yehudah for using his position in the state senate to throw a $75,000 grant to Yehudah’s nonprofit organization. People here in Chicago say this was obvious politics in Illinois: where Obama agreed to get Yehudah a grant, but Obama’s fee for this transaction was $10,000 to pay off his campaign debt.

Yehudah’s nonproft later came under investigation, and Obama panicked: he dumped $5,000 of the bribe money he took over to Yehudah as fast as he could after that.”

HillBuzz cites an LA Times article by Dan Morain from Sept. 8,2007 as corroboration.

[A CA Guy]

Oh, like the Buddhist temple monks and nuns who made donations with other people's monies to Al Gore to bypass election laws?

Yeah, that put Al Gore right in jail and .... Oh, never mind.

I get your drift, but I don't think it will be sexy enough for the public to care about before election day.

Asking for the LA Times tapes and so forth will do better things for the McCain campaign in these last few days.

[freebilly]

The Pumas are starting to sink the knives in....

[mlocher]

Hillary did a very poor job of running against Obama. She has proven that if she could not stand up to Obama with the available dirt, there is no way she could stand up to America’s other enemies.

[Pinetop]

I agree. I think whoever runs with this will have to have a lot more clarity or an indictment to get anyone’s attention.

[Caper29]

This isn’t going nowhere unless they have pictures of Obama stuffing the money in his bra. :-)

[Pinetop]

Well said.

[Eccl 10:2]

This is going nowhere unless they find the money in his freezer, like that other Congressman they had thrown out and jailed in Louisiana.

Oh, wait...

[mrsmith]

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/08/nation/na-obamaprofile8
“ In Springfield he once directed state funds to a nonprofit group headed by a Republican and former ballot foe, Yesse B. Yehudah.

Yehudah barely registered a ripple of meaningful opposition, drawing only 10% of the vote in his 1998 challenge of Obama.

The following year, a nonprofit run by Yehudah, a social services organization called Fulfilling Our Responsibility Unto Mankind, began seeking state support. At the same time, Obama was considering mounting an ambitious challenge to U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush, a fellow Democrat.

Former foe Yehudah stepped up early to help. In November 1999, five people who worked for the Republican’s nonprofit organization each gave $1,000 checks to Obama’s congressional campaign committee... “

[TBP]

Boy, the Klintoons must really be emptying their files on this guy!

[cynwoody]

This is going nowhere unless they find the money in his freezer, like that other Congressman they had thrown out and jailed in Louisiana.

Oh, wait...

http://jefferson.house.gov/images/websiteheader.jpg

From the House to the Big House?

Maybe. If McCain wins. No chance if not!

[no dems]

It’s a shame that someone couldn’t chronicle all of this mess (bribes, associations, possible non-citizen, etc.) and do a 30 minute informercial Sunday night on about 3 networks.

[woofie]

This seems like de ja vu all over again ....I can see lots of Federal investigations into Obama if he is elected....that will be fun (not)

[philman_36]

This isn’t going nowhere unless they have pictures of Obama stuffing the money in his bra.
I see that you're staying abreast of the news as well. {;^)

[Kickass Conservative]

Hillary thought the Blazing Yellow Pants Suit would do the trick.

Unfortunately, when she turned around, the audience was blinded.

[Girlene]

Barack Obama, Yesse Yehudah and the foul odor of corruption

..."Former foe Yehudah stepped up early to help. In November 1999, five people who worked for the Republican's nonprofit organization each gave $1,000 checks to Obama's congressional campaign committee. Yehudah [made] no secret of his goal...

...Obama lost his congressional bid [and was] left with a $40,000 debt.

Later that year, Yehudah associates pitched in an additional $5,000 to help retire Obama's debt. The contributions were recorded on Oct. 7, 2000, three days after the Illinois Senate, at Obama's behest, approved a $75,000 state grant to Yehudah's nonprofit, state records show..........

Other interesting earmarks noted by Judicial Watch and posted here, Obama's Earmark for Fr. Pfleger

$25,000 ==> Blue Gargoyle project headed by cousin of Michelle Obama's
$100,000 ==> Community of St. Sabina headed by Father Michael Pfleger
$100,000 ==> Englewood Botanical Garden headed by Obama campaign volunteer Kenny Smith. Most of money went to his wife Karen Smith