Posted on 04/27/2010 7:23:55 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
Two political contributors to Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Illinois, appear in the government’s evidentiary documents against former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
One of the two men, Myron Cherry, recently contributed $2,300 to Giannoulias’s Senate campaign. Cherry, an attorney, gave to Giannoulias in August. He has also donated $68,000 to a bevy of Democratic candidates during this cycle, including Sens. Al Franken, Minn. and Harry Reid, Nev., and Senate candidates Paul Hodes, N.H., and Jack Conway, Ky.
The other man, Michael Winter, was the office-mate of convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko. In 2006, Illinois’ Capitol Fax blog reported that Winter gave at least $14,000 to Giannoulias’s race for state Treasurer, and that he had received a $2 million loan from the Giannoulias family’s Broadway Bank.
Neither Cherry nor Winter has been charged with any crime.
The government’s evidentiary proffer against Blagojevich says that Winter and Cherry were alleged front-men for a conspiracy by a gang of Blagojevich cronies that included Democratic fundraisers Rezko and Chris Kelly, and Republican fundraiser Stuart Levine. Kelly recently committed suicide, and the other two were convicted on corruption charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Maybe the whole Chicago Way will be imploding, soon.
VAN SUSTEREN: You are in essence accused of selling the Senate seat vacated by President Obama. Everyone that you ever had a conversation with about that Senate seat, is there any way you could have spoken to someone and not have it tapped. Did you have a conversation in the car, for instance, with the other person?
BLAGOJEVICH: I had a conversation with Senator Dick Durbin.
VAN SUSTEREN: Where?
BLAGOJEVICH: In my office in Chicago.
VAN SUSTEREN: Was your office bugged?
BLAGOJEVICH: They say it wasn’t. So Senator Durbin and I, we spoke about the Senate seat, and he offered to be a go between. I decided that my first choice I was going to try to appoint the daughter of my political nemesis, the House speaker was blocking a public works bill that would create 500,000 jobs he was blocking, health care for over 300,000 families, working people in writing.
And I wanted a guarantee in writing to not raise taxes on people.
VAN SUSTEREN: They say they didn’t bug your office.
BLAGOJEVICH: The office downtown Chicago, that conversation with Senator Durbin, my recollection was there. Bu I spoke to Senator Harry Reid —
VAN SUSTEREN: On the phone?
BLAGOJEVICH: On the telephone from my campaign office. I spoke to Harry Reid about the Senate seat, enlisting his help. Senator Menendez, the head of the Senate campaign committee for the Democrats, who expressed an interest —
VAN SUSTEREN: On the phone?
BLAGOJEVICH: On the telephone, working out what was going to be what I called the best political deal in the political history second to the Louisiana Purchase, because I was going to hold my nose and appoint someone who I thought was working against the people in many ways, but notwithstanding, her father was creating legislation gridlock.
VAN SUSTEREN: Who else did you talk to?
BLAGOJEVICH: I spoke to Rahm Emanuel. I spoke to several people.
VAN SUSTEREN: Who are the sort of the main players in this discussion of the Senate seat? Who did you talk to — I’m trying to figure out who is going to be on tape and who is not.
BLAGOJEVICH: I can’t tell you that
VAN SUSTEREN: Who do you remember talking to, to give me some idea?
BLAGOJEVICH: Again, I spoke to Senator Reid, Senator Menendez, then Congressman Rahm Emanuel days after the election right here from this room, and several other people about potential scenarios on the Senate seat.
VAN SUSTEREN: A lot of the conversations about the Senate seat maybe some that aren’t on tape but a lot are or should be because they are done by telephone?
BLAGOJEVICH: Most of the conversations I was engaged in during that six week period had been tape recorded.
VAN SUSTEREN: You mentioned President Obama. You have filed notice to the court that would you like to subpoena him. And you have enumerated a number of reasons. What is it that you think Senator Obama — President Obama, then-Senate Obama, could offer you at trial on June 3rd that would be helpful to your case?
BLAGOJEVICH: I think President Obama can help prove my innocence.
VAN SUSTEREN: How?
BLAGOJEVICH: Let me say this, before anybody says I’m interested in bringing everybody down with me. That’s completely not the case. I’ve done nothing wrong.
What I’m interested in is for the whole truth to come out that neither did I do anything wrong, President Obama didn’t do anything wrong, the senators that I talked to didn’t do anything wrong either. And so they should come into court and tell the truth as they know it. Swear on the Holy Bible as I’m looking forward to do —
VAN SUSTEREN: I got that, but what is it that — the judge is going to say how is President Obama going to help your case? He is going to ask that flat out to your lawyer. Tell me how.
BLAGOJEVICH: Again, a lot of evidence and information that I’m prohibited by court order because it is under seal to tell you. So there’s relevance connected to that.
VAN SUSTEREN: In the pleading your lawyers talked about a conversation in December ‘08, a conversation. President Obama called you?
BLAGOJEVICH: Again, I can’t — because of the court order and me following the law I can’t comment specifically on those telephone conversations. My lawyers filed motions in court. They redacted, as far as I understand, they redacted the substance of those. There was a computer glitch apparently that made some of this stuff unwittingly public — the media found it.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591562,00.html
Has Blago hired serious mercenaries for his security yet?
How long before Alexi is forced out of the race?
Singing like a canary! Tweet tweet! :)
Your excused Mr. President.
It worked for the Clinton crime gang.
Do we know this guy or what? Wondering how long it will take him to say just those words, say 40 mins?
You forgot to add Bush’s fault somewhere is his testimony.
Thanks Brytani.
The thing that makes me sick. The Chicago Suntimes doesn’t even bother to cover this, they’d rather cover the weather.
When this is all said and done, Blago will need to become invisible to avoid the attacks.
Tell us more, Blago. Don’t hold back.
:-)
I still think Blago is sitting on a lot of info, but you ought to rewrite your post in Blagospeak in case he’s reading this, if you don’t mind my suggestion:
****! Tell us ****ing more, Blago, you *******!!! Don’’t ****ing hold back!”
Were Broadway Bank's official documents accurately reported or were they inflated and misprepresented to hide sordid deals? Were bank loans reported accurately? Were phantom employees listed on bank payrolls to falsify the banks' viability?
WAS STATE TREASURER GIANNOULIAS SUCKING OFF TAXPAYERS Were Giannoulias' state Treasuer expenses reported accurately? Did Giannoulias get unapproved state bonuses? How many state pensions does he have? And what about Cadillac benefits? How many relatives and cronies did Giannoulias have on state payrolls?
Giannoulias should be investigated for possibly perpetrating (1) bank Ponzi frauds; (2) laundering bank money; (3) facilitating IRS fraud (stolen money is taxable); (4) running a protection racket (shielding certain bank depositors from scrutiny); (5) running a Democrat campaign contribution fraud?
POSSIBLE CHARGES: official acts prohibited, misuse of govt funds, abuse of public office; violating oath of office; misuse of government position; abuse of government power; conflict of interest; influence buying; conspiracy to deceive; misuse of elective office, collusion, conspiracy to collude; government fraud.
FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)
FOR EXAMPLE: Filing falsified official documents is subject to prosecution. Falsifying official documents incurs felony charges for 1st-degree tampering with public records, 1st-degree offering of a false instrument for filing, 4th-degree grand larceny, and 1st-degree falsifying of official records.
Hard and fast rule of CONTRACT LAW----filing false documents negates pensions, buyouts, retirement contracts, annuities, lump sums, etc., since the person did not negotiate in good faith.
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