Posted on 09/30/2008 6:48:28 PM PDT by kathsua
Remember Antoin "Tony" Rezko? I'm sure Governor Rod Blagojevich recalls who he is. Maybe even Barack Obama.
Well, unless you live in Chicago, or keep an eye on the Chi-town Tribune, you probably have not heard in the national Main Stream Media that Rezko is singing his big head off to the Feds. YEP! According to the Trib, Rezko, who is scheduled for his sentencing appearance on October 28th, is quite the chatty-catty now. The IceMan who said nadda-word for these many months is makin' like a canary.
Why? Well, the courts keep turning down his appeals for mistrials and retrials. His op- tions have all but run out and he's facing a very long time in the stripe-y-hole. According to the Trib, Federal prosecutors have recently begun whispering that Governor Blagojevich will be the indicted soon, and that they have a ton of evidence against him.
As I have been explaining in several articles here and at my other other blog on Yahoo!, Rezko was just the most re- cent of a long series of arrests resulting from a Federal investi- gation known as "Operation Boardgames." Evelyn Pringle's 5-part series of articles at opednews.com goes into extra- ordinary detail on Boardgames and the Illinois Combine, a group of politicians and busi- nessmen who worked at rip- ping off the public.
Most of the others who have been netted thus far by the Feds have been the small fish. Rezko is slightly larger as he seems to be a major conduit between the big fish, including Blagojevich and Nadhmi Auchi. You may be asking who Auchi is?
Meet Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born petro-player who was said to have been the financial advisor to none other than Saddam Hussein! Now residing in Britian, our friend Auchi headed a com- pany formerly known as ELF Oil. Based in France, ELF was the primary oil company for selling Iraqi oil in Europe, as well as other sources. In 1994, ELF got popped in the largest fraud investigation since The Marshall Plan. Some $500 Million dollars were spread around bribing politicians and feathering the beds of ELF's execu- tives. Auchi was convicted, but received only a two-year suspended sentence and a $2 Million dollar fine! Nice!
Auchi began playing games in Chicago, with the help of Rezko. Using a Belgium bank, Clearstream, and a French bank, BNP, Auchi helped launder food for oil money for Saddam. Some of which went to many of Rezko's schemes, such as the Chicago Riverside Park Project, a 62 acre develop- ment near the heart of The Loop. Riverside was seized by the Feds in 2005.
This was just one of many schemes Rezko and the Illinois Combine were in- volved in. My own esti- mates put the amount of their activities somewhere in the $7-8 Billion dollar mark, with much of the money coming from state pension funds. They even went international, scam- ming some $200 Million from Uncle Sugar for recon- struction projects in Iraq!
Rezko, as we all know, is also tied to Barack Obama. While Obama denies any criminal involvement with Rezko, or the Combine's activities, he was certainly in the right place at the wrong time, and very often so at that! This now brings me to my second point of the evening.
Two blog postings have come to light. One at the blog, littlegreenfootballs, where a posting from Glen Reynolds of Instapundit of an email he received from an 'insider' of a major news organization. "Off the record, every suspi- cion you have about the MSM being in the tank for O (Obama) is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into ACORN, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeapordize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT (New York Times), others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working."
Then there is this next com- ment which was posted at the website by Philip Berg, the Philly lawyer (and life-long Dem activist) who is suing the DNC and the Obama campaign to disclose his questionable citizenship. Berg claims that Obama may have been adopted by his mom's 2nd husband and is in fact Indonesian, legally, and not eligible to be president. The first attempts by the DNC and Obama to have the case thrown out of Federal court failed. The website is obamacrimes.com
The post is in the comment section from "Anne" written on September 28th. "I know a "top" person in the MSM quite well. I was very fortunate to catch her at a party and discuss this (the Berg lawsuit) for a few minutes (I asked about the citizenship angle). A little alcohol loosens the tongue. "we're hoping Obama wins and then we'll haul in the ratings ten times better than the Clinton affair. There's a lot more out there than you know, and whether Obama wins or not, you will definitely be shocked at the aftermath. At the moment, I see nothing, I say nothing, and I know NOTHING. But really, I do know that our investigators have a s___load of evidence that's probably gonna put this guy in prison."
Sooo, we have a couple of members of the MSM who say they are in the tank for Obama, actively working to have him win the election. One suspects that he needs to be investigated, the other already apparently knows enough to see Obama being imprisoned at some point in the future.
With all that is going on in the world now, with the wars, financial meltdown and just our national sanity at stake, is the Main Stream Media really hoping for a big fat juicy scandal??? Something they can profit from while the nation goes through dire trauma??? Is this what free- dom of the press is for???
Oh Lord, I am reading the comments now...wonder if this is the tingle Chris Mathews talked about?
(Don’t know what to make of the comments, but I can only hope there is a bit of truth behind them)
Seems kind of sad that we are still hoping/depending on Hillary to ‘win’ this election for McCain.... but he seems unwilling to do even the most obvious things to fight back!
stolen and saved...you’re the BEST!
Is there any way to impeach the media? As the traitors they are? Whatever happened to patriotism?
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