Tony Rezko arrested, sources say (timing is everything)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 28 January 2008 | Jeff Coen and John Chase

[SE Mom]

Antoin "Tony" Rezko was arrested early Monday at his Wilmette home by federal agents on an alleged bond violation, the Tribune has learned.

Investigators had in recent weeks become concerned about the movement of some of his finances, a source said. Rezko, who is scheduled to stand trial on corruption charges in less than a month at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, was taken into custody due to an alleged bond violation, a source confirmed.

[SE Mom]

My, my, my...Is the Clinton machine kicking in?

[SE Mom]

The plot thickens...

[Red Badger]

Just a coincidence, I’m sure, move along, folks, nothing to see here.........

[HarleyLady27]

That is just what I was thinking....Obama beat Klinton in SC and now the smut starts....what a shame we have to witness this trash again....

[SlowBoat407]

Hmm, I think Obama will defend him, and lose, and then Hillary will pardon him.

Looks like he was buttering his bread on both sides.

[Pistolshot]

Probably had to arrest him before he was ‘Ron Browned’.

[buckeye99]

Bill Clinton = Don Corleone.

[VRWCmember]

That would be Obama's "slum lord" friend that hillary criticized Obama for recently. He is the one in the middle in this picture:

[tiredoflaundry]

The arrest might have saved his life! ...figuratively of course...

cough due to cold...

[jdm]

HSU/REZKO '08

[RDTF]

{{{shudder}}}

[Biggirl]

How ironic, considering the American Evita, ( Hilary ) is in my homestate right now, Hartford, CT.

[.cnI redruM]

If this were happening in The Gambia, Bill CLinton would make me laugh.

[.cnI redruM]

If this were happening in The Gambia, Bill Clinton would make me laugh.

[SE Mom]

This is soooo Clintonesque.

[PGalt]

Is suicide in jail his fate?

[Biggirl]

Also, Bill Clinton = Juan Peron.

[VRWCmember]

Is suicide in jail his fate?

The officials should have him on 24-hour Arkancide watch.

[steve8714]

Hopefully King Rodney will end up at the same boys’ school as King George.

[Calvin Locke]

On the "body parts found in Chicago" thread, I said it was probably Rezko.

Apparently, I was wrong.

[MizSterious]

....or sickens...

[steve8714]

I’m sure he’ll get McDougal syndrome.

[SE Mom]

Maybe he’s in protective custody:)

[Dixie Yooper]

How much money did that photo opportunity with the Clintons cost Tony?

[tiredoflaundry]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Verrry interesting . . . but I’m thinking (cynically) that just like the Hsu incident this won’t go anywhere.

It’s only bad when Republicans are linked to shady characters. /s

[Dixie Yooper]

This might be the Bush machine jumping into the election... Would Edwards stand a chance against McCain, Romney or Rudy?

[SE Mom]

We’ll see...but if the Clintons can keep Hsu tamped down..I imagine they can rev up Rezko.

[Fox_Mulder77]

“Just a coincidence, I’m sure, move along, folks, nothing to see here.........”

ROTFL!!!

[DLfromthedesert]

Is Clinton currently in charge? Or is Bush blocking for the Clintons?

[mewzilla]

Next question: Will the media give this more airtime and column space than they did Norman Hsu....?

[not2worry]

Guess the next thing we will see is Obama’s druggie friends from his teen years coming forward with pics and testimony about their “good old days” with Barry.

The Clintons are getting desperate and it’s mean-spirited technic I don’t care to see in any form of our society.

John McCain has the same kind of killer instincts when it comes to his political career, IMHO.

[mewzilla]

The Toons better be sure they know what they're dealing with in making an issue out of Rezko. Rezko may be able to bite both candidates on the butt.

[SE Mom]

Alternately- bringing Rezko up may get the media to start focusing more on Hsu...it’s beginning to look as though the MSM is dumping Hillary.

Whatever the case..it’s entertaining:)

[surrey]

I have to give Joe Scarborough credit. He said ,yes, the Clintons take thousands of pictures a year but how much did they get for this one?

[montag813]

That is just what I was thinking....Obama beat Klinton in SC and now the smut starts....what a shame we have to witness this trash again....

A shame? I despise Obama. He is as phony as the Clintons, and far more left-wing. I say bring on the RAT bloodletting. We need them to re-enact 1968 in order to win this year.

[mewzilla]

Whatever the case..it’s entertaining:)

True, LOL. But the national security implications, especially in Rezko's case, are what's really concerning me. Hopefully my tinfoil chapeau's on too tight :)

[Army Air Corps]

Another phase in the battle between the empty suit and the empty pantsuit.

[AD from SpringBay]

Chicago is Obama’s neck of the woods - so it might be something other than Clinton sleeze.

[SE Mom]

Agreed- it’s ALL disturbing- no matter who is pulling what strings.

[VRWCmember]

Well, we have been waiting for the other hsu to drop.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Time for another mysterious jail death. Don’t want Tony to talk.

[aculeus]

Fitzpatrick involved?

[jdm]

Will the media give this more airtime and column space than they did Norman Hsu....?

No.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I agree. No support here for Hussein NObomba, the epitome of the empty suit.

Sit back and enjoy.

[Twinkie]

Unlike the Hsu incident, Hillary needs for the Rezko story to “have legs” enough so that she beats Obama, but not enough so that he would be mortally wounded. So, the MSM will continue to carry the Clinton water until their love affair with the Clintons finally dies - or at least cools. Also, there’s some question how much Clinton residue is left over in this government from the Clinton appointments.

[Miss Didi]

[Beckwith]

Ethical questions surround Obama's shady real estate deal and relationship with indicted political fundraiser and Arab-American activist Tony Rezko, who befriended Obama during his Harvard days.

Obama bought a $1,650,000 Georgian revival mansion at a gigantic discounted price, some $300,000 less than the asking price.  The same day, Rezko's wife bought the adjoining lot, paying the full $625,000 asking price.

The Rezko lot wasn't accessible from the public street.  However, it abuts Obama's property and  provided a private preserve that adds to its ambience.  Obama  bought the Rezko property for $104,500 -- $520,500 less than Rezko's wife paid for it. 

Did Tony Rezko and his wife subsidize the purchase of Obama's opulent home?

Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.

In June, 2007, it was revealed that Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko's successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens when he was an Illinois state senator.

The deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama's former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama's state Senate district.

Obama's letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko -- a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked -- who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.

During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman and Arab-American activist, Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

Seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times his "best estimate" was that Rezko raised "between $50,000 and $60,000" during Obama's political career.

However, Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle.  Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

The deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama's former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama's state Senate district.

Obama's letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko -- a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked -- who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.

The Obama File

[isom35]

I suggest no more airplane travel for Rezko...

[Fox_Mulder77]

HEHE