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Rezko already has told prosecutors his version of what they say was a plot to stack the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board and ram through a major expansion program for Mercy Hospital in return for a major contribution to Blagojevich’s campaign fund. It’s one of many allegations they have investigated of job and favor trading for campaign contributions.
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Sen. Barack Obama’s wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don’t have private insurance — primarily poor, black people — to other health care facilities.
Obama’s top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, that was hired by the hospital last year to sell the program — called the Urban Health Initiative — to the community as a better alternative for poor patients. Obama’s wife and Valerie Jarrett, an Obama friend and adviser who chairs the medical center’s board, backed the Axelrod firm’s hiring, hospital officials said.
Obama has said he recommended Whitaker for the state job, giving his name to Tony Rezko, who helped Gov. Blagojevich assemble his Cabinet. Rezko, a former fund-raiser for Obama and Blagojevich, was convicted in June on federal corruption charges tied to state deals.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article
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ALL OF THIS CORRUPTION was swirling around Obama and he wasn’t involved in any of it. /SARCASM
20 posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 9:06:31 PM by kcvl
There seems to be quite a few questionable real estate, medical and banking deal made around BO. There are several listed on this thread....If you run across any more feel free to add them or ping me to them.