URGENT: Big story about to break, we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
Posted on 10/11/2008 2:40:06 AM PDT by Roger W. Gardner
URGENT: Big story about to break, we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
The Sun Times today gave a major clue that Barack Obama will indeed go down with Tony Rezko, sooner rather than later. It looks as though Rezko is about to turn on Alexi Giannoulias, the 30-year old State Treasurer of Illinois (who was elected only because Obama backed him).
Here’s where all the clues are…and then we’ll walk you through the local Chicago politics on how today’s hint by the Sun Times has us convinced, for the first time ever, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could indeed send Barack Obama to jail. We need to repeat that: we never believed, until now, that Obama would go to jail for anything related to Rezko. Today, this breaking news about what Rezko is singing to the Feds about makes us reconsider all of that. Barack Obama will serve a prison sentence in the next few years — because knowing Fitzgerald, there is no reason he would be going through all of this if that was not the targeted goal in the long term.
(1) Michael Sneed in her Sun Times column 10/10/08 had the following tidbit: Sneed hears rumbles political fund-raiser/fixer Tony Rezko, who is now singing sweetly to the feds from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been talking about his “dealings” with a Chicago bank, which has political connections.
(2) We just spoke with someone well-connected in Chicago politics who told us that the bank Sneed is talking about has to be Broadway Bank, which is owned by the politically-connected Giannoulias family. We were told that Sneed’s column confirms rumblings people we know heard independently that Tony Rezko is giving up the Giannoulias family to Patrick Fitzgerald — Rezko and the Giannoulias family are as close and tied together as anyone in Chicago could be. If Rezko is turning on them, then Rezko is going to give up Governor Rod Blagojevich and Obama too. We don’t want to end up in cement shoes for implying anything here, but if you live in Chicago for any length of time, you hear rumors about Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family, and insert Tony Soprano references here. Kapeech?
(3) So, Rezko is singing about the Giannoulias family and its longtime “business dealings” in Chicago, which would interest someone like Fitzgerald and the Justice Department, who have had a long ambition to crack Soprano-style business dealings in Chicago (the city known for Al Capone hasn’t changed much, really). The next plate to drop in this will be Fitzgerald then leaning on the Giannoulias family to give up someone bigger than them, who Fitzgerald once discussed in terms of hoping “he has the morals to do the right thing”, to paraphrase. We now believe that person Fitz was talking about is Barack Obama.
(4) The Giannoulias family was involved with Obama as far back as his first state senate campaign in 1996. It has been long rumored here in Chicago that Obama obtained a sweetheart deal on his first town home here in Chicago — which he could not have afforded otherwise — and guess who the financing came from for that house? We’ve been told it was Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias bank. Now, this sets up a scenario where the Giannoulias family helps Obama with his campaign finances and gets him deeper in their pocket with his sweetheart mortgage deal (for the first home he owned that he could not afford) – all in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined later.
(5) One favor political Chicago claims Obama did for the Giannoulias family was in 2006 when, out of the blue, 29 year old Alexi Giannoulias, with no experience, and without ever having voted before, decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois. Also out of the blue, Barack Obama endorses Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer. This was a SHOCK to everyone in Chicago — and Giannoulias would have never become State Treasurer without Obama’s help. In political circles here, it has always been believed that this endorsement was bought years ago with that sweetheart mortgage deal Broadway Bank arranged for Obama to buy his town house.
(6) So, the Tony Rezko sweetheart deal was not the first magic home loan Obama ever received to buy a house he could not afford. There’s more to this that looks like it will break soon. We were STUNNED when we read Sneed’s column because we never in a million years believed Fitz would actually be able to take down Obama. We do not believe this will come out before the election, however, but we do believe Fitzgerald will continue his prosecution to the highest level, because that is what he does. Jean Valjean got off easy, compared to what it’s like to be in the crosshairs of perhaps the greatest prosecutor this nation has had in a generation. Patrick Fitzgerald is a force of nature.
Sneed’s clue can only mean Broadway Bank…we’ve now heard this from several people in Chicago. And Broadway Bank can only mean Giannoulias. And Giannoulias leads to Obama through that town house home loan and the quid pro quo political endorsement several years later. And that home loan ties back to Rezko, in that it was the first of two shady home buys Obama made with quid pro quos attached to them.
Just thinking that last paragraph out, Obama’s defense in the Rezko business was that he never did anything for Rezko so there was no quid pro quo. What the Giannoulias and Broadway Bank stuff proves is that Obama sits in people’s pockets for a while before the favor is given. He bought that town house sometime between 1997-2000 or so, since he lived there for a few years before trading up to the Obama Mansion with Rezko’s help in 2005, after he was in the United States Senate. And it looks like the payback was not given to the Giannoulias family until 2006, with Obama’s endorsement of Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer.
This all stems from Sneed’s clue in today’s Sun Times. She says to stay tuned for more, so please do that.
We hope so. When he finishes with Osama Obama he should start on the CEOs who have undone the US economy in the largest conspiracy in history. While he does that, the voters should vote out every mother-trucking poitician they can find. All of them. Start over. Now I understand why the French overthrew the aristocracy.....Remeber "Let them eat cake". Ours are saying "Let them pay taxes....$850B in new taxes for the so called rescue." ....Talk about a conspiracy. And Paulson wants to pay these SOBs off....well, only if the get jail time.
> But there are too many Chicagoans who’d rather keep taking handouts to shrug their shoulders and vote the petty tyrants back into office, so I’m having a really hard time believing this.
You need to be convinced... fair enough. Convince yourself: get your hands on the Chicago Tribune archives, go back five, ten years. Read everything (EVERYTHING) John Kass has written about The Outfit, Cook County, and Chicago Politics. You will see a pattern unfolding...
The wheels of Justice may grind slow. But they grind fine.
Good point BIA. This could also be why that Anderson Cooper expose about Obama in Iraq suddenly appeared in CNN — of all places.
> A few days ago we had promises of a RICO Indictment against ACORN. What happened? Nothing.
Patience, mate — entirely possible that the prosecutors are being careful. They would be silly not to be. And, with the weekend coming it might be a few days before something happens with ACORN.
It will take as long as it takes because the prosecutors won’t want to screw up.
Look at our last two presidents for proof of that - shrub lied us into a war (which is partially responsible for the economic meltdown we're experiencing), and clinton committed treason. Neither will ever pay for those crimes.
Yes, and you know what they say, if it seems too good to be true, it is.
Don't set yourself up for disappointment with this.
Aint gonna happen... A white prosecutor, appointed by Bush, taking down America’s first black presidential nominee mere days before an election (in which he is leading in every poll)?
Keep dreaming.
Nothing to see here. Move on my pretties.
All Obama has to do is fire all the federal prosecutors. Worked for Clinton.
Time will tell...
Don’t these deals happen all the time in the world of politics? Chris Dodd is still on the loose and he got a sweetheart deal. Its got to be more than this. Its got to be something the average voter can understand in a soundbite before he gets thrown under the bus by the American people.
yep.
I recall several folks who WENT TO PRISON to protect Clinton. The same will happen with this.
There is NOBODY I’d do that for except for maybe my husband.
IF anyone does start giving up info, they will suddenly DIE (of suicide or natural causes of course).
So how do you explain Clinton and every single Congressman/woman and Senator for the past 15 years also saying Sadaam had WOMD’s? How do you explain Sadaams murder of his own people with WOMD. Do you realize our troops have found enough $#it in Iraq to constitute WOMD but its never enough for the left or the media.
No. We shouldn’t hope, haven’t you been paying attention? Democrats don’t go to jail.
He said "we don't need to fear an Obama presidency."
How do I explain it? Well, maybe because it's true?
It's fact that the US allowed chemical weapons components to be sold to Iraq in the '80s, and the photos of thousands of dead Iranians killed by chemical weapons show that the US-made components were mixed to form the deadly chemicals, weaponized and used.
Do you realize our troops have found enough $#it in Iraq to constitute WOMD but its never enough for the left or the media
Yep, stuff left over from the '80s and stamped "Made in the USA" (it matters!).
As far as Saddam Hussein (barak hussein's kin?) possessing usable WMDs of any kind after that, why didn't he use them during the US invasion? After all, If they were supposedly for use against us anyway, why not use them when we invaded his own country with the express purpose of taking his ass down?
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