Posted on 03/27/2019 9:12:13 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel don't get it yet.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama, her former Chief of Staff Tina Chen, and Cook County State's Attorney Kim Fox, do get it.
It's not about fairness. It's about elites showing their power. When Mayor Emmanuel says that Jussie Smollett got special treatment, that's exactly the message that the Chicago Black Elite want the Police, the Mayor and all of Chicago to get.
Because We Can. We are above you.
Message Telegraphed. Receipt Returned. You understand what we mean.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-iv-for-the-slumlords-defense-barack-obama-esq
Miceli and Davis were the partners in charge of the firm's housing and real estate practices. Davis would later leave the firm to join Obama mentor Tony Rezko in the real estate development business.
In March 1994, a year before "Dreams" was published, Obama was the lead defense attorney on an obscure case in Cook County Court that has heretofore escaped examination by the national media.
In this case, Obama defended a Chicago slumlord and powerful political ally who was charged with a long list of offenses against poor residents. The defendant was the Woodlawn Preservation & Investment Corp., controlled by Bishop Arthur Brazier, a South Side Chicago preacher and political operator.
Brazier's burgeoning real estate empire included a low-income housing project at 6223 South University. Today, MapQuest describes the Woodlawn neighborhood as "quaint and sedate." But in the winter of 1994, it was a frigid hell.
Brazier was closely allied with Obama and his firm, not least because Davis was on WPIC's Board of Directors. Davis was also the corporation's registered agent, and he received the court summons when the city filed suit on the South University apartments.
Brazier's WPIC had failed for nearly a month to supply heat and running water for the complex's 15 crumbling apartments. On Jan. 18, 1994, the day the heat went off, Chicago's official high temperature was 11 below zero, the day after it was 19 below.
Even worse, the residents were then ordered to leave the WPIC complex in the winter chill without the due process they would have been afforded by an eviction procedure.
In court documents reviewed by The Washington Examiner, Daniel W. Weil, commissioner of Chicago's Buildings Department, slammed WPIC for multiple municipal code violations, including "failure to maintain adequate heat," failure "to provide every family unit with approved heating facilities," and "failure to provide adequate" supplies of either hot or cold running water.
Things were so bad that the city's outraged corporation counsel declared that "the levying of a fine is not an adequate remedy" and asked the court for a permanent injunction against WPIC, appointment of a receiver and imposition of a lien on WPIC to pay for repairs, attorneys' fees and court costs.
But Obama did his work so well that in the end, on March 3, 1994, the court simply fined WPIC $50. Only then did Obama tell the court of the forcible removal of tenants in the bitter cold.
An experienced Chicago housing attorney who reviewed the case at the Examiner's request said $50 fines against politically powerful slumlords were not uncommon at that time. The lawyer, who currently works for the city, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal.
The attorney termed the forcible removal of the residents in the frigid Chicago winter "outrageous," and said it looked like "a way to avoid a lengthy eviction process by law. And if the tenants had leases, they should have been bought out with a cash payment in return for leaving the premises early."
The South University apartments eventually became part of a real estate syndication deal that Obama helped negotiate. Brazier remained as the controlling general partner, while the syndicated investors became limited partners.
The merging of Brazier's insider contacts and influence with the limited partners' financial resources enabled them to benefit collectively from bigger, more profitable deals than they would have each been able to do individually.
A Chicago housing expert with direct knowledge of WPIC's real estate dealings told the Examiner that the syndication deal involving the apartments likely was being negotiated when the building lost heat.
"The property was one of five or six that was bundled together into a partnership and syndicated with tax credits," he said. It was a "prelude to being put into the partnership, which it ultimately was for purposes of the refinancing and syndication."
The WPIC case illustrates how Obama functioned at the center of a historic accommodation then developing between the Daley machine and its traditional opponents among the city's liberal reformers.
Lubricating the deal was a flood of public and nonprofit federal and state tax credits and funding for low-income-housing projects that would enrich developers and empower ambitious politicians like Obama, at the expense of taxpayers and, especially, the poor.
Brazier was not merely an Obama legal client. A disciple of Chicago's famous radical activist Saul Alinsky, Brazier was also a close political ally of Daley's and one of the key movers and shakers among the city's progressive political elite who in the years ahead would advance Obama at every turn.
Obama also did legal work involved in the establishment of four Brazier-Rezko limited partnerships: Woodlawn Partners Ltd., Central Woodlawn Partnership, KRMB Limited Partnership and Woodlawn Drexel Ltd. Partnership. Rezko is now serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for fraud and attempted bribery on state government contracts.
The former Obama firm still represents WPIC, as well as Brazier's church, the Apostolic Church of God, and his Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization. Brazier's son now oversees the properties.
As Brazier clung to life in 2010 in a Chicago hospital, Obama called him from the White House for what relatives described as an extremely tearful farewell.
Shortly after Brazier died, Obama issued a statement saying of the man he had once helped put 15 poor families on the street in the dead of winter:
"There is no way that we can replace the gentle heart and boundless determination that Bishop Brazier brought to some of the most pressing challenges facing Chicago and our nation."
Straw that breaks the camels back? I doubt it. The nothing-burger Russia collusion? Yeah, right.
Thank you, I wondered about that.
The Smollet hoax was an Obama operation meant to support Kamala Harris.
I’d like to see that unpacked.
Their group image reminds me of white 80’s hair.
It’s also about Empire.
Empire is a TV show with mainly black actors. So, it’s a black thing. It’s their franchise. And, nothing and nobody is going to mess with this show. It is protected territory, even if Jussie is not one of the main characters.
You can bet that Michelle Obama and her entire family and friends are committed Empire fans. So, it’s not just about Hollywood or rich elites. It’s a black thing. Don’t you dare touch this. (I feel a song coming on).
Praying this cracks the shell that surrounds Obama.
Maybe now we will know who he is really.
he was on with Stephanopoulos this morning. He’s an good actor if he’s acting.
I disagree, the Chief is a Rahm politician, or he wouldn’t hold that position. His anger is as much of an act, as ballerina boy’s.
It seems like for the elite, for awhile anyway until they regroup, they're actually getting disgusted with each other.
He almost wasn’t able to cash in on his black/gay privilege. He would have been prosecuted, if soros hadn’t sent money, and bammy hadn’t made a stern phone call.
Why wouldn’t the Chief of Police be furious in this case?
Barack and other Democrats learned well from the Clintons.
The deception must be at least two levels deep.
Jussie attempted to deceive with his fake story about white men attacking him.
That’s the first level of deception.
We are now into the second level of deception.
“He was let off because he’s rich”.
No he wasn’t.
That’s just more deception.
The Democrats are hiding something worse.
Keep digging.
Yes, Chief of Police is justifiably furious, as is much of America.
Where is the justice??
16 counts just gone? All that misdirected police action? When others get wrongfully almost crucified for much less? So sad!!!
It comes with the territory.
He is also a Mayor so he has to actually run something and at least give the appearance of making things work and representing the people of Chicago.
Rahm is lame-duck and hasn’t exposed what his future plans are. Get ragefull once then move on. He’s livid which doesn’t make sense...except...who knows...maybe u r right. Tchen & Rahm’s wife are friends since childhood.
Foxx is a dimwit per a friend of the family who worked for her, who now can breath in Texas.
The rumor is everybody and their brother was threatened in this case as “they” have plans for Foxx plus they don’t need Smollett’s shennanigans to get in the way of the 2020 elections.
Foxx’s chinaman is going to get her butt kicked in the mayoral race, so I wonder where her juice really is ?
makes for good theater in any case.
Just read where Jussie’s lawyers might sue the CPD...are they nutz ?
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