VIDEO: Targeting The Chinese Mafia In Chicago, IL
Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:12:55 AM · by AtlasStalled · 1+ views
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Friends of Ours ^ | 04/10/10 | Friends of Ours
In Chicago, IL a Mandarin-speaking police officer posed as a cop on the take in a sting operation “that busted a Chinatown prostitution ring and exposed a scheme to obtain thousands of Illinois driver’s licenses illegally” as reported by Frank Main for the Chicago Sun-Times: Brothel operator Sheng Quan Dong bribed the officer to keep police away from his business, prosecutors said. Dong is accused of making $18,000 in payoffs over two years. * * * The prostitution sting led investigators to an identity-fraud scheme in which 19 people were charged in federal court in 2009. Using fake passports, more...
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Blagojevich’s Wife Received Tens of Thousands From Antoin Rezko, Prosecutors Allege
Washington Post ^ | April 14th 2010 | Peter Slevin
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:11:45 PM by Steelfish
Blagojevich’s Wife Received Tens of Thousands From Antoin Rezko, Prosecutors Allege
By Peter Slevin CHICAGO — Illinois businessman and Democratic fundraiser Antoin Rezko was so anxious to help his friend, then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), that he funneled tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Blagojevich’s wife, federal prosecutors contend in a document unsealed Wednesday.
Patti Blagojevich did no work for the payments, which were allegedly disguised as real estate commissions and other payments from one of Rezko’s Chicago companies. To make it appear that she had earned them, prosecutors allege, she showed up from time to time at Rezko’s offices - usually carrying her infant daughter and soon leaving.
“Rezko was willing to do whatever it took to get her money, whether it was from a monthly retainer or through hiring her to work on his development at Roosevelt and Clark,” the prosecutors wrote in a 91-page document. The document was made public by U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel, who is due to preside over Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial starting June 3.
“Rezko did not seem to care if she actually did anything to earn the money,” prosecutors continued. “Rezko was only concerned about ensuring that Blagojevich did not have to worry about his finances.”
Patti Blagojevich is named as a “conspirator” in the document, but has not been charged with a crime. Prosecutors cited her alleged participation amid evidence that her husband worked with Rezko and other insiders in illegal money-making schemes that began soon after he took office in January 2003.
Rezko, currently in prison, is better-known nationally as a friend and fundraiser for Barack Obama during the first decade of Obama’s political career in Chicago. He did not contribute to Obama’s presidential campaign.
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