CHICAGO: CRIME KIND OF TOWN

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[hoosiermama]

Crime in Chicago has been in the news lately, but it is nothing new. Historically it dates back over a hundred years. From the tale of the Gray Wolves

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/540.html

The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a faction of its aldermen known as the Gray Wolves. So named because they were viewed as preying upon the defenseless public, the Gray Wolves were led by First Ward aldermen “Bathhouse” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Mike Kenna, and Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward. These elected officials were not only skilled at trading votes for favors, but once in office they excelled in making municipal decisions to profit themselves financially.

TO the present, it is a compelling historical subject.

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[penelopesire]

Not to mention ammnesty and all the other leftist bills they are going to try and ram through! We might want to put the link to the federal ‘proffer’ up here too.

Link to EVIDENTIARY PROFFER:

http://www.wttw.com/res/pdf/santiago_proffer.pdf

[hoosiermama]

Will we being seeing more of this? Remember it’s seldom the big crime that takes em down: It the details...T-s that are dotted and I-s crossed. Favors and Paybacks. That’s how everything is done in Chicago.

To advance I believe BO sought JJ’s backing. What better way than marrying kinfolk?
:)

Coincidence that the principal and Michael Scott (RIP) were subpoenaed by a grand jury regarding elite public school admissions such as Whitney Young Magnet HS, where MO and Santita Jackson attended. Wonder if JJ is on the list???

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-cps-admissions-0323—20100322,0,5656688.story

While many Chicago parents took formal routes to land their children in the best schools, the well-connected also sought help through a shadowy appeals system created in recent years under former schools chief Arne Duncan.

Whispers have long swirled that some children get spots in the city’s premier schools based on whom their parents know. But a list maintained over several years in Duncan’s office and obtained by the Tribune lends further evidence to those charges. Duncan is now secretary of education under President Barack Obama.

The log is a compilation of politicians and influential business people who interceded on behalf of children during Duncan’s tenure. It includes 25 aldermen, Mayor Richard Daley’s office, House Speaker Michael Madigan, his daughter Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1733015,CST-NWS-clout25.article

Back in 2004, Young was the only college prep to routinely handpick some students outside a rigid formula involving grades, attendance and admission test scores. Kenner said Young’s tradition of such picks goes back decades to its inception as a magnet school, and she used them to bring diversity and talent to her school.

[hoosiermama]

Linked to earlier posts re: Burke.

============================================================Alderman Edward Burke, Part III: Top Machine Boss of Obama’s Chicago
Big Government ^ | 4-15-10 | James Peterson

Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:00:36 PM by STARWISE

As we watch Obama govern, we don’t need to look far to find where he learned Chicago-style politics. One of his professors was Alderman Edward M. Burke, boss of the Chicago City Council.

Ed Burke

After Alderman Fred Roti was convicted on 2 RICO, 5 bribery and 4 extortion charges, the Outfit lost much of its leverage over city business. Over time, Burke stepped into the void and centralized legislative power in his own office.

As chair of the Finance Committee, Burke gained control over the purse strings, and the City of Chicago carries a big purse. The Chicago Sun-Times reported:

When city workers get hurt on the job, they usually turn to a handful of lawyers tied to City Hall. And the city often fights back by hiring lawyers with ties to Ald. Edward M. Burke, chairman of the City Council Finance Committee, which has sole authority to settle workers compensation claims against the city. Injured city workers most often turn to Frederic Krol Sr., who went to prison for five months in the 1960s for bribing a federal prosecutor and temporarily surrendered his law license. The city has paid more than $65 million to settle 3,750 workers comp cases Krol has filed since 1980, records show.

Burke had familial influence over the restructuring of Chicago’s judicial system in the wake of Operation Gambat. Here’s how.

Anton Valukas was U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois when Robert Cooley wore a wire in Operation Gambat. After serving as U.S. Attorney from 1985-1989, Valukas returned to practice law at Jenner and Block. In the wake of the Operation Gambat trials, a special commission was tasked to study how judicial practices in Illinois could be reformed. Illinois Issues reported:

Appointed to chair the study, due December 31, 1993, was Jerold S. Solovy, senior partner in Chicago’s Jenner & Block law firm. Solovy headed a similar commission that studied Cook County courts from 1984 to 1988 in the aftermath of the federal Operation Greylord of the early 1980s…The new Solovy commission has the authority of the state’s highest court behind it and will take in the entire state judicial system.

One of the attorneys appointed to the Solovy commission was Alderman Burke’s wife, Anne.

Ed Burke is now in charge of slating the Democrat Party judges for elections in Cook County.

Burke also has familial influence in the remapping of ward boundaries. On February 17, 1997, in an article entitled “Role In Two Suits Raises Ethics Issues,” Chicago Sun-Times reporters Adrienne Drell and Charles Nicodemus pointed out Burke’s ties to the law firm of Jenner & Block.

Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th), whose decisions on hiring lawyers in the City Council ward remap case have funneled $7.5 million in city fees to the prominent Jenner and Block law firm, holds co-counsel status with that firm in two recent lawsuits, court records show. Burke’s links with the firm do not appear to violate any laws or regulations…

Managing partner Jerold Solovy – who is the lead attorney in the remap case – was treasurer of the unopposed 1996 campaign for Illinois Appellate Court justice of Anne Burke, the alderman’s wife. And prominent [Jenner and Block] partner John Simon served as her campaign chairman. The firm provided $14,414.15 in services and money to the campaign.

The firm hired Burke’s daughter Jennifer A. Burke in June, 1995, shortly after she graduated 173rd in a class of 385 from Chicago Kent College of Law. In making new hires, the firm usually draws top students from the nation’s leading law schools. Two weeks ago, Burke, whose name has been linked to the federal investigation of ghost payrolling at City Hall, hired Jenner and Block partner and former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas to represent him in that inquiry.

So, the man who chaired the commission to reform the judicial system in Chicago over which Burke gained control was the treasurer of Anne Burke’s successful campaign to be elected a judge. And, he also received $7,500,000 in fees from the City Finance Committee that Burke chaired. Plus, the former U.S. Attorney during whose tenure allegations against Burke surfaced was Burke’s attorney during a ghost payrolling investigation.

The quote above mentions “the federal investigation of ghost payrolling at City Hall.” Here’s how ghost payrolling works.

Document No. 101317 of the Illinois Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, dated May 18, 2006, told the story of Burke’s ghost employee, Joseph Anthony Martinez-Fraticelli. He was a newly minted attorney hired by Burke to a succession of city jobs for which he performed no work at all. That eventually led to him losing his license to practice law. Burke, who hired him, was never held accountable. Martinez cleaned up his act, paid restitution, and was reinstated to the bar by the Illinois Supreme Court.

Before Anne Burke became an Illinois Supreme, both Ed and Anne attracted attention in the murder case against Herbert Cammon. On January 22, 2008, Karyn Mehringer, co-founder of Illinois Family Court Accountability Advocates, requested that the Illinois Supreme Court investigate Alderman Burke and his wife, now Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, concerning the Cammon murder case. Mehringer wrote:

Herbert Cammon’s case was a murder case in which it was alleged that Herbert Cammon, a gay black man, murdered his wife with the help of his gay lover by stabbing her over 40 times and leaving the knife sticking out of her mouth. It was alleged that he murdered his wife to obtain the proceeds of a $250,000 life insurance policy. The case was originally assigned to Judge Arthur Cieslik. [Judge Cieslik lived in the 14th ward.] After a mistrial because of a hung jury, Ed Burke approached Judge Cieslik and told him to withdraw from the case. When the judge refused to withdraw from the case, he told the judge, “What’s the big deal. It’s only a f***ing n***er.”

… Anne Burke also requested that the judge withdraw from the case saying, “My husband was the one who put you on the bench.” When the judge finally withdrew from the case due to media pressure initiated by the attorneys, the case was assigned to Judge Tom Maloney. Judge Maloney dismissed the case in a bench trial. Cooley revealed that he was wearing a wire when the aforementioned events took place such that the FBI was fully informed. Cooley revealed that he was in communication with Judge Cieslik and he tried to encourage the judge to not let the case go. He also reported to the feds that the case would be assigned to Judge Maloney who would fix the case.

Judge Tom Maloney, mentioned above, is the only judge in U.S. history convicted of fixing a murder trial. He received a 15-years prison sentence. There’s no indication that the Illinois Supreme Court ever investigated Justice Anne Burke in response to Mehringer’s complaint.

Anne Burke was selected to be an Illinois Supreme Court Justice after Cooley made allegations against her and her husband in his book When Corruption Was King. No Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times editorials questioned Anne Burke’s ethics or the wisdom of having the wife of the powerful Chicago City Council member on the Illinois Supreme Court…especially an attorney who once represented two members of the Chicago mob.

Just last week, on April 9, when this story appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, its connection with Anne Burke was noticed by Newsalert, a local Chicago blog.

Three reputed mob burglars, two of whom were convicted of stealing the 45-carat Marlborough Diamond, were arrested on a Bridgeport street this week— allegedly as they were on the verge of robbing the home of the late, feared mob boss, Angelo “The Hook” LaPietra, federal prosecutors said today. Charged in the case were Jerry “The Monk” Scalise, 73, of Clarendon Hills; Art Rachel, 71, of Chicago — both convicted of the Marlborough Diamond theft — and Robert Pullia, 69, of Plainfield.

Scalise and Rachel are associates of the Outfit. The “Marlborough Diamond” theft was covered by the Sun Times back on April 26, 1987:

Two Chicago jewel thieves are being held for ransom in British prisons, according to their Windy City lawyer. The ransom demand: location of a $1 million gem and information on the crime syndicate. Attorney Anne Burke said that’s the real reason the Brits are holding onto her clients, Joseph “Jerry” Scalise and Arthur “The Genius” Rachel. Burke said Scotland Yard detectives recently have been visiting Scalise in his prison on the Isle of Wight in an apparent effort to learn the whereabouts of the Marlborough diamond.

In addition to being a convicted thief, Scalise is a reputed hit man for the Outfit.

The grisly nature of the chop shop business in the late 1970s was underscored by 14 unsolved murders of individuals linked to this most lucrative enterprise. Several of these killings were linked to Dauber who was to eventually find himself outside the mob’s good graces, and especially with “Butch” Petrocelli and Jerry Scalise, a thief with a proclivity for jewelry. Scalise who had traveled to merry old England and snatched the famed Marlborough Diamond several years earlier from a British arcade…

Legal documents from 1989 show that attorney Anne Burke represented Scalise and Rachel in their effort to be extradited from England to serve their sentence for the jewel theft in a U.S. prison. So, in that case, she was a mob lawyer. Here she is later swearing in the Pat Quinn as Governor of the State of Illinois.

A. Burke & Gov. Quinn

Alderman Burke’s power is such that he can ignore the rules in the City Council. For example, Barack Obama’s friend, neighbor and financial supporter, “Tony” Rezko, knew to go to Burke for results. In October 2007 the Chicago Sun-Times asked,

Why did Ald. Edward M. Burke vote to approve Tony Rezko’s plans to develop the South Loop’s biggest piece of vacant land even as he [through his law firm] was working for Rezko on that same deal?

Burke says: I forgot to abstain.

The much-conflicted alderman says he meant to sit out the vote. He’d even sent a letter to the Chicago Board of Ethics in August 2003 saying he would abstain from any Council votes on Rezko’s plan to put as many as 5,000 homes and stores on a 62-acre site along the Chicago River at Roosevelt Road.

But then Rezko’s project came before the City Council on March 31, 2004, and Burke cast his vote — in favor. “An error occurred,” the alderman said in a written response to questions, “and Rule 14 was not invoked.” That would be the Council rule under which aldermen are supposed to abstain from a vote when they have a conflict of interest. Of course, it’s up to the alderman who has a conflict to invoke the rule.

Burke’s legal work for Rezko’s Rezmar Corp. is referenced in records on the 62-acre site Rezko wanted to develop with $140 million in city subsidies. The project fizzled, and Rezmar sold the land.

So let’s see if we have this straight: Burke forgot to invoke a rule against himself based on a clear conflict of interest between his role as a voting alderman on a project while also providing legal services to a bidder. The project involved $140,000,000 in city money.

Accusations against Alderman Edward M. Burke are not new. Several appeared in Robert Cooley’s book When Corruption Was King. Former FBI Agent John O’Rourke said this about the veracity of Robert Cooley’s testimony.

…Mr. Cooley has previously provided information that has been independently verified and found to be reliable by the FBI.

Here’s the question: Why hasn’t The Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC) opened an investigation concerning Cooley’s allegations against Alderman Burke? And why hasn’t the Chicago media demanded it? Cooley says,

I sent a letter that offered to provide the necessary information, but never got a response.

This is politics Chicago-style, where President Obama learned how big government works, with Alderman Ed Burke as one of Barack’s tenured teachers.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2497180/posts?page=2

Wake up to the West Texas Organizing Strategy
Pratt on Texas ^ | 20 April 2010 | Robert Pratt

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:06:39 PM by Army Air Corps

Wake up to the West Texas Organizing Strategy (WTOS)
Businesses, institutions and politicians need to learn the difference between communities of interest and radical political groups masquerading as such.

As was discussed on Pratt on Texas back in 2007, the West Texas Organizing Strategy is an official arm of the radical Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation. You’ll find them listed on the IAF’s website among a few dozen other hives of Saul Alinsky socialist groups around the nation. That Lubbock has one should be a concern to Liberty lovers.

From the IAF website: “The current generation of IAF organizations began in the mid-1970’s and was the product of the insight and effort of the person who succeeded Saul Alinsky as executive director of the IAF...”

Quoting again: “The leaders and organizers of the Industrial Areas Foundation build organizations [such as the WTOS] whose primary purpose is power… and whose chief product is social change.”

This is where Obama’s change rhetoric is rooted. It’s not about fixing problems but, about remaking the United States into a government controlled economy. Individual liberty and opportunity are opposed by this group, in that they preach that a poor person cannot escape poverty on his own initiative. That’s a philosophy which runs counter to the entire experience and success of the American people and is a justification for government control.

The WTOS is rooted in America’s most successful group of radical social revolutionaries. Texas politicians and institutions should stop treating them as an innocent community interest group – they are Obama’s very radical, completely political, community agitators of the worst type.

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2007 discussion on the WTOS

WTOS Summit to address misconceptions about poverty on South Plains

Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption

David Horowitz on Alinsky and post-modern leftism

Saul Alinsky

[hoosiermama]

Adding to the collection. Feel free to connect any dots you find on the thread.

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===================================================================Mediaite Exclusive: Censored Portions of Blago Subpoena May Implicate Team Obama
Mediaite ^ | 04/22/2010 | Frances Martel

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:14:12 PM by OldDeckHand

Today in United States v. Rod Blagojevich: following up on his 2008 claims that then-Senator Barack Obama was one of a few people who could testify to his innocence, his defense team issued a motion today to subpoena the President to testify in court. Most of the juiciest bits involving Obama’s role in choosing a new Senator are blacked out, or so we thought. It turns a lucky PDF glitch gave us VIP access. Who wouldn’t want to see the blacked out part? Let’s investigate!

Most of the non-blacked out portions of the motion are predictably tame general knowledge: the seat in dispute belonged to the President; the FBI did speak with the President about this case at some point in time. A “labor union official” close to the President (who may be SEIU President Andy Stern) is said to contradict public statements on the case by Obama directly. The credibility of money man Tony Rezko being crucial to the case, the defense would like the President to testify about it. The defense also spends significant amount of time bringing up previous cases of sitting presidents being subpoenaed to testify in relevant cases. What the defense didn’t want you to see is the allegation that an Obama “supporter” offered Blagojevich “fundraising” in exchange for the seat. In other words: Blagojevich didn’t try to sell the seat; an Obama “supporter” tried to buy it.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...

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rod blagojevich, Barack Obama, all your secrets are belong to us
Redactions Revealed: The Six Secrets You Need to Know From the Obama Subpoena Request

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Former governor Rod Blagojevich’s defense team asked Thursday to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States of America.

The motion, intended to be heavily redacted, was improperly edited — the full document was easily viewable if the text is copied and pasted to another document.

Below, the six revelations the redacted portions were meant to conceal.

1. Obama may have lied about conversations with convicted fraudster Tony Rezko

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Blagojevich’s lawyers allege that Rezko admitted breaking the law by contributing “a large sum of cash” to a public official. Blagojevich’s attorneys say that public official is Obama. Obama said that Rezko never relayed a request from a lobbyist to hold a fundraiser in favor of favorable legislative action. But the point may be moot: regardless of Obama talking/not talking to Rezko, Blagojevich’s attorneys say that Obama refused the request regardless.

Redacted portion: However, the defense has a good faith belief that Mr. Rezko, President Obama’s former friend, fund-raiser, and neighbor told the FBI and the United States Attorneys a different story about President Obama. In a recent in camera proceeding, the
government tendered a three paragraph letter indicating that Rezko “has stated in interviews with the government that he engaged in election law violations by personally contributing a large sum of cash to the campaign of a public official who is not Rod Blagojevich. &hellip Further, the public official denies being aware of cash contributions to his campaign by Rezko or others and denies having
conversations with Rezko related to cash contributions. &hellip Rezko has also stated in interviews with the government that he believed he transmitted a quid pro quo offer from a lobbyist to the public official, whereby the lobbyist would hold a fundraiser for the official in exchange for favorable official action, but that the public official rejected the offer. The public official denies any such conversation. In addition, Rezko has stated to the government that he and the public official had certain conversations about gaming legislation and
administration, which the public official denies having had.

Redacted footnote: The defense has a good faith belief that this public official is Barack Obama.

2. Obama may have overtly recommended Valerie Jarret for his Senate seat
Blagojevich’s defense team basically alleges that Obama told a certain labor union official that he (Obama) would support Valerie Jarrett’s candidacy for the Senate seat. Jarrett, referred to as “Senate Candidate B”, is now a senior advisor to the president.

Redacted portion: Yet, despite President Obama stating that no representatives of his had any part of any deals, labor union president told the FBI and the United States Attorneys that he spoke to labor union official on November 3, 2008 who received a phone message from Obama that evening. After labor union official listened to the message labor union official told labor union president “I’m the one”. Labor union president took that to mean that labor union official was to be the one to deliver the message on behalf of Obama that Senate Candidate B was his pick. (Labor union president 302, February 2, 2009, p. 7).

Labor union official told the FBI and the United States Attorneys “Obama expressed his belief that [Senate Candidate B] would be a good Senator for the people of Illinois and would be a candidate who could win re-election. [Labor union official] advised Obama that [labor union official] would reach out to Governor Blagojevich and advocate for [Senate Candidate B].. . . [Labor union official] called [labor union president] and told [labor union president] that Obama was aware that [labor union official] would be reaching out to Blagojevich.” (Labor union official 302, February 3, 2009 p. 3).

3. A supporter of President Obama may have offered quid pro quo on a Jarrett senate appointment
Redacted portion: Supporter of Presidential Candidate Obama is mentioned in a phone call on November 3, 2008, having offered “fundraising” in exchange for Senate Candidate B for senator (Blagojevich Home Phone Call # 149).

4. Obama maintained a list of good Senate candidates
Redacted portion: President-elect Obama also suggested Senate Candidate A to Governor Blagojevich. John Harris told the FBI and the United States Attorneys that he spoke to President’s Chief of Staff on November 12, 2008. Harris took notes of the conversation and wrote that President’s Chief had previously worked as Blagojevich’s press secretary. Obama agreed of Staff told Harris that Senate Candidate A was acceptable to Obama as a senate pick. (Harris handwritten notes, OOG1004463) President’s Chief of Staff told the FBI that “he could not say where but somewhere it was communicated to him that” Senate Candidate A was a suggested candidate viewed as one of the four “right” candidates “by the Obama transition team.”

5. Rahm Emanuel allegedly floated Cheryl Jackson’s name for the Senate seat
Redacted portion: President’s Chief of Staff told the FBI that he had a conversation discussing the Senate seat with Obama on December 7, 2008 in Obama’s car. President’s Chief of Staff told the FBI “Obama expressed concern about Senate Candidate D being appointed as Senator.

[President’s Chief of Staff] suggested they might need an expanded list to possibly include names of African Americans that came out of the business world. [President’s Chief of Staff] thought he suggested Senate Candidate E who was the head of the Urban League and with President’s Chief of Staff’s suggestion.

6. Obama had a secret phone call with Blagojevich
Redacted portion: President-elect Obama also spoke to Governor Blagojevich on December 1, 2008 in Philadelphia. On Harris Cell Phone Call # 139, John Harris and Governor’s legal counsel discuss a conversation Blagojevich had with President-elect Obama. The government claims a conspiracy existed from October 22, 2008 continuing through December 9, 2008.6 That conversation is relevant to the defense of the government’s theory of an ongoing conspiracy. Only Rod Blagojevich and President Obama can testify to the contents of that conversation. The defense is allowed to present evidence that corroborates the defendant’s testimony.

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Very interesting. If Blago goes down, so does Obama. No way a judge can deny Blago the opportunity to depose and call Obama as a witness.

Fitzpatrick is has a huge ego and would personally love to take down a sitting President.

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I’d vote for that.....Hope FItz is watching his back. IIRC WHen Berg first filed his case he consulted with the FBI and others and was told they had more than he did, but were waiting to present in a Court of Law.......and we wait and get worse everyday.

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Blagojevich Judge Calls Emergency Meeting
WMAQ-TV Ch. 5 Chicago (NBC) - “The Ward Room” Blog ^ | April 22, 2010 | Unattributed

Posted on 04/22/2010 4:51:08 PM PDT by LibertyRocks

The judge presiding over former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial called an emergency meeting Thursday evening after information that was intended to remain under seal was released to the public in a defense filing to subpoena President Barack Obama.

Judge James B. Zagel scheduled a 6 p.m. hearing in his chambers to question attorneys about why the redacted information was readable, according to reports.

But Blagojevich’s attorneys denied that interpretation. When asked whether the meeting concerned the redacted documents, attorney Sheldon Sorosky responded simply “no.”

The defense motion, filed Thursday afternoon, request to call President Obama as a corroborating witness and argued that Obama could verify that Blagojevich didn’t try to sell his seat.

The filing contained several paragraphs that had been blacked out electronically. However, the underlying text was easily viewable in the electronic cersion of the document if a reader simply copied-and-pasted the paragraphs into another program.

The failure to properly redact is a relatively common one in government circles.

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Feds Enter Giannoulias’ Family Bank (Obama buddy - it’s closed)
My Fox chicago ^ | 4-23-10

Posted on Friday, April 23, 2010 6:09:03 PM by STARWISE

Regulators prepare to seize Broadway Bank

Updated: Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 5:53 PM CDT

Federal regulators prepared to seize control of the bank run by the family of U.S. Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias late Friday after the bank could not raise enough money to remain afloat.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxchicago.com ...

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0424-broadway-bank—20100423,0,1669391.story

Broadway Bank’s Failure A Twin Blow For Giannoulias
Chicago Tribune ^ | April 24, 2010 | Becky Yerak

Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:57:44 AM by raptor22

Broadway Bank, the family-owned lender that helped launch U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias’ political career, was seized by government regulators Friday night, one of seven Illinois institutions taken over and sold to healthier companies.

The failure of Chicago-based Broadway, which was unable to raise the $85 million it needed to remain independent, was anticipated, and its worsening health has weighed on Giannoulias’ Democratic bid for President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. The bank had been struggling in recent years with real estate loans gone bad, losing $75 million last year.

Giannoulias worked for his father at Broadway before entering politics, and during his successful run for state treasurer in 2006 he used his banking experience as one of his chief qualifications. But in the Senate race, he has tried to distance himself from the bank’s troubles.

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“The Giannoulias family took out nearly $70 million in dividends from the bank in 2007 and 2008. Demetris Giannoulias, Alexi’s brother and Broadway’s chief executive, has said most of the money was used to pay corporate taxes and for estate planning after the 2006 death of family’s patriarch, Alexis Giannoulias.”

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Don’t come looking at Gramama Obama’s Bank
lame cherry ^ | Sept 28 2008 | lame cherry

Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 9:19:26 PM by tutstar

Tucked away on the 10th floor of South Beretania apartments in Honolulu, Hawaii is quite a woman, the one engineered profile online suggests for Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham, the grandmother who raised Barack Hussein Obama when he was abandoned by his mother, but for the wonder woman profile which was created online, the one question jumps out that no one has noticed:

If Madelyn Dunham was thee woman as her profile states who paved the way for all women in banking, thee woman who raised Barack Obama, then why is Barack Obama running away from this woman, why is she hiding in an apartment in Hawaii, when her presence would have gotten her the entire Hillary Clinton feminist vote as we are told in her profile that Grandma Dunham was better than the invention of the wheel for women?

I have stumbled across the answer in this as it is so old that even the internet servers are being scrubbed of the stories which lead to Madelyn Dunham.

The first red light which went off for Grandma Dunham was when I was attempting a profile search which all living people have. “Someone” has scrubbed Madelyn Dunham’s profile in spots and is listing her as 40 years younger. Mr. Obama’s sister, Mya, is listed as a relative, but not one Barack Obama is listed.

As an example if one uses as a control, Henry Kissinger, who is oft times blamed for all things globalist and who should be one person who could have his profile information scrubbed, one can find Dr. Kissinger listed with family and associates.

So if Doc Kissinger is in the system, why is Madelyn Dunham, the paver of banking ways for women and raiser of messiah not listed?

I believe the key starts out with Mrs. Dunham’s choice of employment at Bankho, or the Bank of Hawaii starting in 1960 where she was elevated after 10 years in 1970 as Vice President. That is quite a meteoric rise from bank teller to executive in that short of period of time. Mrs. Dunham’s expertise was in Escrow Accounts which are used as 3rd party money transfer accounts between two people who basically do not trust each other and still need a deal to be done.

It was during this period that the Democratic machine in Hawaii was killing bank examiner bills, because at the same time the two largest banks in Hawaii were making a huge push into the Pacific Rim from 1963 to 1970. You thought opening doors to China began with Kissinger and Nixon? Nope someone was paving that way a decade before and 30 years before Bush 41 set upon what is termed his policy to modernize China.

Bank of Hawaii is listed as the largest bank in Hawaii of that period and expanded into the Pacific Rim buying up assets during the Vietnam War.

It is into this which Madelyn Dunham was being promoted as an expert in money transfers for her entire career and this is why she is being hidden away and planted stories are abounding about old Gram banking leader and Stanley Ann, anthropologist, and no one is mentioning what these two women were setting up in an international Marxist or globalist scheme which has yet to come to fruition, until their Barack hits the stage.

On March 31, 1980, Jimmy Carter enacted the Depository Instituions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 which would phase out all savings rate ceilings on consumer accounts and deregulated the banking industry. People have heard nonstop it was Reagan or Bush who started all of this deregulation when the fact is comrade Carter initiated what was to become the biggest economic rape of the world. Rush Limbaugh has invested a great deal of time noting Jimmy Carter and his housing act started this housing mess, but it was the banking rape which Carter set into place which America is being rocked by now.

I ask people to keep with this for the punchline as the situation is laid out, because you will not believe what the Obama women were setting up for the globalists.

Mrs. Dunham would retire in 1986 from the escrow fund of Bankoh. Her daughter who was an anthropoligist would then go into, banking. Huh? You might question. Yes she went into banking in Indonesia setting up microfinance for poor women there.

What on earth is microfinance?

Ever heard of a progressive changing their name to a liberal? That is exactly what microfinance is. Microfinance is in the late 1980’s, a savings and loan for destitute 3rd world types. If people remember history in BCCI and other savings and loans raping American small investors in the Bank of Coccaine and Crime International, then you know what Stanley Ann Dunham has now set up as the largest loan system to a billion people in Indonesia. Microfinance is the term no one has yet figured out which is the next derivative as the globalist cartels have set this monster up in every impoverished nation in the world.

Getting ahead of the story, the Rothschilds are currently in India providing microfinance for poor Indian farmers with the money being crop seed which fails and they can not repay. The end result is the Rothschild cartel owning Indian farmland while Indian farmers commit suicide. The cartel though is enjoying record exports of tainted grain grown on poisonous ground being sold around the world, including to Americans.

So Gram Dunham leaves the bank running the new world escrow service forming and Stanley Ann is setting up savings and loans in the 3rd world as she happens to find her way to New York too running the World Women’s Banking created the United Nations in 29 poverty nations around the world.

Follow this now please, World Women’s Banking was brainchild of Stichting INGKA Foundation of the Netherlands. INGKA owns an international furniture outlet chain, but holds it’s assets in a $36 billion dollar account making it the richest on earth. For a modern tax rape in the United States, this is exactly what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are doing as they keep their assests out of tax coffers while preying on consumers. I ask you to remember that Buffet has billion dollar foundations for each child and raped over 31 billion dollars out of the markets which people lost in the last months.

This is what the Dunham women were setting up for the 3rd world and is about to be sprung.

Now we come to Bank of Hawaii dumping huge amounts of money into Asian markets in a money transfer in the 1990’s. Of course that money loaned did not stay in Asia in the least, it instead was part of the Bill Clinton Indonesian, yes Indonesia again, Riaydi and Lippo Group money funneling campaign funds into the Clinton reelection bid with Al Gore. What people missed in this was the money from the Chinese was not just about bribes to the Clintons. The Indonesians, Chinese and Clinton globalists were after the real prize of the New York Stock Exchange offering up the communist Chinese Xiamen International Bank to both the Hang Seng and New York.

It would be Hawaii’s Democratic machine which would use billions of dollars in Kamaehameha School funds with Bishop Estate to underwrite the public offering of Xiamen.

This should be sounding familiar in the same corruption engulfing Illinois in funds being embezzled there and Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s names popping up in funds allotted to them. Do you remember what William Ayers was after in his Chicago school initiatives was federal funds and Tony Rezko was playing with Chicago real estate making slums for blacks.

Are you seeing a Marxist pattern here in moving money around in public funds, real estate, poor people in housing and massive market collapse?

So the money went out of Hawaii while the Chinagate money came into the mainland. Soon enough the Asians who dumped their excess in the American markets had their economies tanked. Hawaiian investors lost record sums, but that means the cartels gained billions.

Bush 41 would send in the FBI to Hawaii for all this Democratic coruption, but being replaced by Bill Clinton, it would be Webster Hubbell number 3 at Justice under Janet Reno would shut down the investigation. In order to cover up the failure of half of Hawaii’s industrial banks in this nation rape, Bill Clinton appointed Donna Tanuoe who had absolutely no banking experience as head of the FDIC. She would hold that position until 2001 and is currently now part of the executive committee of, the Bank of Hawaii, our old escrow account operative Madelyn Dunham’s place of vocation.

This massive money laundering scheme was set up off the mainland and collapsed ruining Hawaiians was not even covered by the press no more than if it was in another nation. Some in the press probably think Hawaii is another nation. Donna Tanuoe emerged in covering up the massive collapse of Hawaiian banking in the 1983 to 1985 period of the last years of Madelyn Dunham employment. She set the stage in the FDIC for what America is currently imploding in now.

John McCain and Republican banking committee members tried in Senate Bill 190 to reign this in in 2005, but were stopped by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

If people want to know a really small world, behold Bank of Hawaii is now run by a flunky who covered up the original nation rape where Mrs. Dunham worked and the other bank in Hawaii just happened to be purchased by BNP Paribas SA, currently owned by Nadhmi Auchi of Saddam Hussein oil for food bribery to the Clintons and the world socialists, with money laundering, who just happened to be in Chicago buying up Tony Rezko’s real estate and shaking hands with Barack Hussein Obama. Toss in Marc Rich who was the genius behind BCCI funding and Bill Clinton’s pardon, and one has the entire banking fraud scheme of the past 30 years now engulfing the world.

Now do you perhaps understand why one planted story on Madelyn Dunham as wonder woman is being circulated and why Barack Obama is running from this woman and not featuring her as she should be a campaign asset for the female vote in America?

If not let us enter the future of an Obama age, when the term “risky microfinance” starts cropping up. I ask you to think about 1 billion Indonesian, Indian, Bangladeshi, African, ok if we go the full route, number it 2 billion women all in microfinance. Suppose they have on average 1000 dollar loans which would talley 2 trillion dollars, plus the sewing machines, materials, grains etc... all these poor people were sold like the Indian farmers. That would make a 4 trillion dollar profit already from Stanley Ann Dunham’s microfinance “helping the poor”. Now crash that debt system just like the Obama backers crashed the United States derivative markets to assist him. Imagine forclosing on 2 billion people’s 40 acre farms just like the Rothschilds are accomplishing in India.

Does that not sound like a pretty good scheme where you sold poor people goods you made, put them into debt, crash the system and then take their collateral which you as a cartel can now exploit in farming making the slaves buy food from their own land.

Now do you understand why Barack Obama and his syndicate have targetted specific stories leading everyone away from Grandmama Obama and Mama Obama? In these women’s actions was the genisis of financial diaster which is the ghost of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future. The last things Barack Obama wants is anyone sniffing around his family’s Hawaiian banking past or his family’s Indonesian banking past as it leads right into Chicago banking and New York finance collapse that Barack Obama has a part in.

Nobody has put this scheme together and is this blog’s exclusive again. The Congress isn’t going to mention this. The pundits will not touch this, so maybe the remainder 299 million Americans and those speaking Spanish had better start chatting about this so the Congress and pundits will have to.

Make my Nobel and Pulitzer checks out to Sturm Ruger as I like their firearms for a shopping spree.

[hoosiermama]

FROM:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508860/posts

UPDATE:Metra Director Pagano Throws Himself Front Of Train Sources Say[Feds Durbin Probe Rail Boss]
SunTimes ^ | May 7, 2010 | MICHAEL SNEED

Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010

Embattled Metra Executive Director Phil Pagano, under investigation by his own agency for financial issues, threw himself in front of a Metra train this morning and was killed, sources said.

It happened in an unincorporated area near Crystal Lake just after 8 a.m.

[hoosiermama]

FROM:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509155/posts

Feds trace flash crash to Chicago
politico ^ | 5/7/10 | EAMON JAVERS

Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010

Federal investigators probing the “flash crash” that briefly sliced nearly 1,000 points off the Dow Thursday are zeroing in on a series of “unusually high-volume” trades in S&P futures that originated in Chicago, a government official told POLITICO.

Those trades set off a chain reaction of trades that caused the biggest drop within a single day in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s storied history.

[hoosiermama]

Many comments and links on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509330/posts

Obama pal part of fed probe (Dr. Eric Whitaker)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 8, 2010 | DAVE McKINNEY, CHRIS FUSCO AND TIM NOVAK

Posted on 05/08/2010 5:02:14 AM PDT by maggief

E-mails and other records of Dr. Eric Whitaker — one of President Obama’s best friends — have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

The investigation involves “faith-based initiatives” and health-awareness campaigns funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health when Whitaker ran the agency for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to copies of subpoenas obtained under the state’s Freedom of Information Act.

Obama has said he recommended Whitaker for that job, which Whitaker landed in April 2003. The president’s friend resigned in October 2007 to join Obama’s wife, Michelle, as an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

[hoosiermama]

Keeping Chicago Crime links all together so dots are easier to connect

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Genachowski’s first position was as clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals. Mr. Obama had turned down a clerkship with Judge Mikva.”

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Ab Mikva talks about his ex-clerk Elena Kagan
Posted by Greg H. at 5/10/2010 10:41 AM CDT on Chicago Business

Ab Mikva’s grin almost came through the phone this morning when I asked him about Elena Kagan.

The former U.S. Appellate Court judge and White House counsel knows Ms. Kagan about as well as anyone in the government, having been her boss in both of those positions, when she clerked for him as a judge and served as his deputy when he was the chief White House lawyer in the Clinton administration.

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http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?sid=212226&id=252218

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This Genachowski Background may help provide connections

Few people realize Genachowski was at both Columbia College and Harvard with Obama.

Julius Genachowski

***Genachowski not only overlapped with Obama's two years at Columbia College (class of '85), but also was his Harvard law school classmate, working under Obama at the Harvard Law Review (as notes editor).

***Genachowski is credited for spearheading Obama's online campaign strategy, which used social networking and other tools to spread Obama's campaign message and raise record campaign contributions. WaPo

***He was a top bundler for Obama (over $500,000)
Net Neutrality For Campaign Donors ( Top Donor awarded FCC chairman position )

***Proponent of Net Neutrality During the campaign Mr. Genachowski shaped many of Mr. Obama’s telecommunications and technology policies. He advocated an open Internet in the debate over so-called net neutrality, and media ownership rules that promoted a diversity of voices on the airwaves. NYT

Over the last decade, the chairman of the F.C.C. has played a more expansive role in regulating the economy, particularly with the rise of the Internet and wireless communications. Now, as the new administration plans to make the expansion of broadband and Internet services a significant part of its stimulus package, Mr. Genachowski, with his close ties to Mr. Obama, could have a larger role in shaping economic policy than many of his predecessors. NYT

***Genachowski appeared to have visited executive branch offices 47 times between January 20 and August 31 (2009), according the the White House visitors log. By comparison, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made only five appearances.

BIO Highlights

Born August 19, 1962, Genachowski, the son of Eastern European Jews who fled during the Holocaust, grew up in Great Neck, NY. His father, having fled Nazi-occupied Belgium came to the US and studied engineering at MIT.

Genachowski attended yeshiva (Jewish religious school) through high school and studied in Israel before enrolling in Columbia College.

After receiving his BA in history, magna cum laude, in 1985, Genachowski decided to postpone law school and go to work for then-Congressman Charles Schumer (D-NY). His time on Capitol Hill also included work on the staff of the special Congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.

Upon receiving his JD in 1991, magna cum laude, from Harvard, he married that same year Boston journalist Martha Raddatz (who was previously married to Ben Bradlee III, son of the longtime Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee). They later divorced.

Genachowski's first position was as clerk for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals. Mr. Obama had turned down a clerkship with Judge Mikva.

Mr. Genachowski later clerked for Supreme Court Justices William J. Brennan Jr. and David H. Souter.

He was chief counsel to Reed Hundt, an F.C.C. chairman during the Clinton administration.

He then worked for eight years as a senior executive at the IAC/Interactive Corporation, run by Barry Diller.

He also founded Rock Creek Ventures, an investment and advisory firm for digital media companies and co-founded the country’s first commercial “green” bank.

Genachowski is currently married to Rachel Goslins, a copyright-lawyer-turned documentary filmmaker. The couple has two children and Genachowski has a son from his first marriage.

SOURCES: NYT, AllGov, Muckety, USA Today

[hoosiermama]

Interesting to say the least.....Any connection to Rahm-E?

[thouworm]

I stopped there, and also did not list all his corporate affiliations (which are voluminous).

MestaMachine provided these (see below & note the GREEN connection in the last 2 parags) on the TM thread where I posted the Genachowski Bio post.

Rahm? are you in there anywhere?

http://www.netcaucus.org/biography/julius-genachowski.shtml

Julius Genachowski is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Rock Creek Ventures, which invests in, launches, and advises digital media and commerce companies.

He is also Co-Founder of LaunchBox Digital, a seed-stage investment program for web and mobile entrepreneurs.

Previously, he served in senior executive positions for eight years at IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI), including Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Mr. Genachowski joined IAC shortly after it was founded by Chairman and CEO Barry Diller, and was a key player in IAC’s growth to become a multi-billion dollar global e-commerce and media company, comprised of leading interactive businesses including:

Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, TripAdvisor, Ticketmaster, HSN, LendingTree, Match.com, Citysearch, ServiceMagic, Evite, Interval International and Ask.com.

Mr. Genachowski has served on the Boards of Directors of:

Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), Hotels.com (Nasdaq: ROOM), and Ticketmaster (Nasdaq: TMCS).

His current boards include:

Website Pros (Nasdaq: WSPI), and The Motley Fool, and he is a special advisor at General Atlantic.

Mr. Genachowski is part of the founding group of New Resource Bank, a commercial San Francisco-based bank that opened in 2006, targeting the clean-tech, renewable energy, organic food and similar sectors, the country’s first ‘green’ bank.

He is on the Board of Directors of Common Sense Media, and has served on the Board of Advisors of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).