Here’s some interesting information that goes along with
Rod Blagojevich’s serbian, Orthodox roots.
From:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/22/greater-albania-is-no-model/
If “success” means the destruction of 300 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries; if “success” means ethnic cleansing of over 250,000 Serbs from their ancestral homes, all under the noses of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR); if it means the final eradication of Serbia’s culture, language and religion in Kosovo; if it means handing Kosovo’s government over to war criminals
Comment on you tube Make one wonder why poster has that opinion:
“Rod Blagojevich is much bigger threat to USA, than any Muslim will ever be.”
Yet, the media just can’t seem to get enough of rubbing everyone’s nose in Rod Blagojevich’s “ethnic roots” — even going so far as to publish quotes from the Blagojevic family in Europe for their reaction to the cousin that they’ve never met, and quoting headlines from German and Soros owned newspapers from Eastern Europe.
Others went to his local boyhood church for reactions from parishioners. Rod Blagojevich is 52 years old and hasn’t gone there in 30 years. What’s this got to do with anything?
Rod Blagojevich told us how irrelevant his ethnic roots were a few years ago on Jay Leno, when he refused to say anything other than that they were “Eastern European”. So why does the media think that they are going to find something relevant to the corruption story in Blagojevich’s ancestry?
Rod Blagojevich’s “ethnicity” is American and his religion is “corrupt politician”. That should have been plain for all to see when back in 1999, he supported the twisted and corrupt NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia, using the same hateful anti-Serb rhetoric as the rest of his twisted fellow corrupt politicians.
Follow up on Cooley from (say it ain’t so Bo):
Following up on mob-lawyer-turned-undercover-informant Robert Cooley’s explosive allegations that Rod Blagojevich “was a bookmaker on the North Side who regularly paid the Chicago mob to operate” before going into politics, the FBI agent “who supervised Cooley’s undercover work in the late 1980’s confirms that federal officials were informed back then about Blagojevich’s alleged bookmaking and mob payoffs”:
On Thursday, former FBI official Jim Wagner confirms that . . . Cooley indeed informed the bureau about Blagojevich’s alleged bookmaking business. But Mr. Wagner says in the 1980’s, FBI agents had never heard of Blagojevich. Wagner was Cooley’s “handler” for the FBI at the time, supervising his undercover that resulted in two dozen successful prosecutions for public corruption.
For whatever it’s worth, Robert “Bobby the Boxer” Abbinanti, the convicted mob collector to whom Blagojevich allegedly paid street tax, denies Cooley’s allegations:
Mr. Abbinanti denied having been Blagojevich’s mob handler 25 years ago. Abbinanti admits having run outfit gambling rackets with Marco “The Mover” D’amico and that he was convicted with top mob gambling bosses for which he spent six years in the federal penitentiary. “I don’t know what Rod Blagojevich did or has done but I do know one thing. I never met the man. I never spoke to the man. I never had any business — personal or in any way with him and you know what, it’s just an injustice,” said Abbinanti.
Cooley previously represented Abbinanti.
Meanwhile, Chris Kelly, Blagojevich’s former campaign manager, top fundraiser and close friend, has agreed to plead guilty to tax fraud for failing to report $1.3 million in income from sports betting.
More on Albanian mob
While some media reports noted this provocative passage, missed in the coverage was exactly which countries the U.S. spy agencies were talking about. PaperTrail consulted organized crime experts close to the U.S. government, who were all too happy to name names. Topping the list of potential Mafia states: Moldova, that ex-Soviet cauldron of crime and corruption, and the Balkan nations of Albania and its newly-founded neighbor Kosovo, known for their ruthless drug trafficking syndicates.