Transfer from another thread to keep all information in one place:
To: hoosiermama
“Patti had real estate relations with Rezko IIRC.”
What’s next? They also own land in the old country:
“Cousin Dragan appeared again in Friday’s Blic, saying his famous relative still owns some land in the village so “he can come to Serbia if he cannot take it any more in America. He can have a cow or a pig or two, a chicken. … He is always welcome.”
Some Serbs referred jokingly to their own country’s record of corruption following decades of communism and the rule of autocrat Slobodan Milosevic. A Blic headline read “American Corruption the Serbian Way.”
“Naturally, a Serb comes up with a scheme to make money,” laughed Svetlana Ciric, a 39-year-old book seller in Belgrade. “Only, it doesn’t work there like it does here.”
Dragan Blagojevich said the governor had never visited the village, but that his family sends Orthodox Easter postcards every year.”
http://www.courant.com/chi-blagojevich-serbia-081212,0,6320089.story
15 posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 6:31:55 PM by Albanese (”Mbahu nene mos ki frike, se ke djemte ne Amerike”)
Information on Connor and appraisal can be found here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/18/whistleblower-hits-obama-friends-appraisal/
EXCLUSIVE:
“...
A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.
In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko’s property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document... “