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Even Wikipedia knows Obama reeks of Rezko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rezko#Ties_to_Barack_Obama):

Ties to Barack Obama

In 1990, after Barack Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, Rezmar Corp. offered him a job, which Obama turned down. Obama instead took a job with the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland,[28] which primarily worked on civil rights cases. The firm also represented Rezmar and helped the company get more than $43 million in government funding. The firm’s former senior partner, Allison S. Davis, later went into business with Rezko and, in 2003, was appointed to the Illinois State Board of Investment by Governor Blagojevich at Rezko’s request.[7][29] On July 31, 1995, the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.[30] Starting in 2003, Rezko was one of the people on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million.[7] Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama that Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race.[1] Obama in 2007-08 identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and said that he donated almost two-thirds of that amount to nonprofit groups.[31][32]

In 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (which was $300,000 below the asking price but represented the highest offer on the property) on the same day that Rezko’s wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.[33] Obama acknowledged bringing his interest in the property to Rezko’s attention,[34] but denied any coordination of offers. According to Obama, while the properties had originally been a single property, the previous owners decided to sell the land as two separate lots, but made it a condition of the sales that they be closed on the same date. Obama also stated that the properties had been on the market for months, that his offer was the best of two bids, and that Ms. Rezko’s bid was matched by another offer, also of $625,000, so that she could not have purchased the property for less.[35]

After it had been reported in 2006 that Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, Obama purchased a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko’s property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value.[7][33] According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mark Brown, “Rezko definitely did Obama a favor by selling him the 10-foot strip of land, making his own parcel less attractive for development.”[36] Obama acknowledges that the exchange may have created the appearance of impropriety, and stated “I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it.”[35]

On December 28, 2006, Ms. Rezko sold the property to a company owned by her husband’s former business attorney. That sale of $575,000, combined with the earlier $104,500 sale to the Obamas, amounted to a net profit of $54,500 over her original purchase, less $14,000 for a fence along the property line and other expenses.[37][38] In October 2007, the new owners put the still vacant land up for sale again, this time for $1.5 million.[39]

In June 2007, the Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis. Of Obama’s letters in support of the Cottage View Terrace apartments development, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “This wasn’t done as a favor for anyone, it was done in the interests of the people in the community who have benefited from the project. I don’t know that anyone specifically asked him to write this letter nine years ago. There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district.” Rezko’s attorney responded that “Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.[40]

In the South Carolina Democratic Party presidential debate on January 21, 2008, Senator Hillary Clinton said that Obama had been associated with Rezko, whom she referred to as a slum landlord.[41] The LA Times said that a review they did showed that Rezko played a deeper role in Obama’s political and financial biography than Obama had acknowledged.[42] Within days of the debate, a photo of Rezko posing with Bill and Hillary Clinton surfaced. When asked about the photo, Hillary Clinton commented “I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door.”[43]

28 now Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Morain, Dan (2008-04-06). “Obama’s lawyer days: brief and not all civil rights”. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
29 Novak, Tim (2007-11-11). “How reform-minded City Hall critic became a cozy insider”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
30 Novak, Tim (2007-04-23). “Obama and his Rezko ties”. Chicago Sun\Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
31 Chris Fusco; David McKinney, Tim Novak, and Abdon M. Pallasch (2008-03-16). “Obama explains Rezko relationship to Sun-Times”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
32 Drew, Christopher; McIntire, Mike (2007-06-14). “An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
33 Ray Gibson; David Jackson (2006-11-01). “Rezko owns vacant lot next to Obama’s home”. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
34 “Asked who approached her about the house, Schwan [the seller’s broker] told Salon, ‘I honestly don’t remember. Tony Rezko lived across the street, so he’d been interested in the lot.’”McClelland, Edward (2008-02-01). “How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?”. Salon.com. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
35 McKinney, Dave; Fusco, Chris (2006-11-05). “Obama on Rezko deal: It was a mistake”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
36 Brown, Mark (2006-11-02). “Obama’s dealings with Rezko buy a parcel of questions”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
37 The $54,500 figure is before any property tax and other expenses Ms. Rezko incurred during her ownership
38 Jackson, David; Ray Gibson (2007-02-24). “Rezko sells lot next to Obama”. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
39 Novak, Tim (2007-10-10). “Lot next to Obama can be yours for $1.5M”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
40 Novak, Tim (2007-06-13). “Obama’s letters for Rezko”. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
41 Healy, Patrick; Zeleny, Jeff (2008-01-22). “Obama and Clinton Tangle at Debate”. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
42 Morain, Dan; Hamburger, Tom (2008-01-23). “Obama dogged by ties to donor”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
43 “Photo Surfaces Showing Sen. Clinton Posing With Chicago Landlord Rezko”. FOXNews. 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2008-05-10.