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Posted on 10/13/2008 10:50:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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.
Postscript: For a superb clarification of this case read Puma Pundit
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If true, then McCain and Palin ought to be bringing up the fact that if Obama is elected, the federal prosecutors will simply be fired and replaced with Obama cronies who will be good little Brownshirts.
Who says Obama is going to win in the first place. Only the angered people think this.
Agreed. Have you seen any “Obama or Revolution” bumperstickers? They’re out there.
Need that OH Not this S—t again graphic NOW
I agree. Fitzgerald knows that he will be "reassigned" the moment Obamao is sworn in... and filing charges after November 4th on the President-Elect would be a fiasco on so many levels. It is rumored that many of Barry's patrons in Chicago want Fitzgerald's removal first and foremost. Love him or hate him, Fitzgerald can be pretty rough and has made their lives much more difficult.
The way I look at it, many of us can see how ruinous an Obama presidency would be to the US. Just think about what all Fitz has seen after three years chasing the likes of the Chicago machine... he came to Chicago with the sole purpose of cleaning up the place and he isn't going to throw it away because some politician (particularly one such as The One) or party is going to be adversely affected before election day.
Sure, if he had another choice as to timing, I am sure he would wait, but he doesn't, and the political heat brought from the likes of Obama isn't going to be near enough to overpower his Elliot Ness complex.
I think Obama will be lucky to make it to Thursday without hearing from Fitzgerald.
Ditto that.
BTW, Obama is not a crook. He is the Magic Marxist Mulatto pre-ordained by Allah to become your very next President, unless if by miraculous means* a certain senior citizen of our acquaintance doesn't wake up.
* If Divine Lightning fails to wake up McC, how about a a really swift kick in the stern sheets, as we sailors like to say.
I think the Impeachment Saga should have taught us to not put any faith in these reports.
It is all just wishful thinking.
Quid pro quo..............
You're right; Bribery's tough to prove, but where there's smoke there's usually a flame somewhere (especially in Chicago), and Fitzgerald's just the guy to track it down and shine some bright lights on it. Have you noticed how Obama is coming out with lots of new government giveaways when he'd seem to be better off just staying vague?
Nice if true. But laws don’t apply to democRAT politicians.
” think Obama will be lucky to make it to Thursday without hearing from Fitzgerald. “
I agree. For one thing Bush will get to sign the Dept. of Justice orders/indictment on Obama, if there is an indictment.It has been since June that Rezko was sentenced and locked up...from what has been written he has been talking for months. Don’t you know that would be a sweet signature for Bush??! AND, there is no way Fitzgerald is going to wait until after the elction...just in case Obama is anointed. He is the prosecutre from MY that took down the Gambino family, radical cleric that bombed NY and if the CHICAGO papers are humming about an indictment, believe it.
Exactly. I think that some of 1990’s holdovers at DOJ are burning the midnight oil for Billy Jeff.
The RNC just sent out a nice little press release about the direction that Justice is taking Rezko...link at bottom...most of it is familiar, but a few more details are emerging in relation to some of Chicago’s filthiest.
Regardless of Fitz’s timing, when you are toasting people that are described with words like Baath Party, Oil-for-Food Scandal, and Iraqi-Born Billionaire, it is pretty tough to tell the plumber that he wants to “spread the wealth around” like he did today.
Let’s take a look at a couple of highlights, shall we?
Is Rezko Describing Whether Obama Is The Illinois Government Official Rezko Asked To Help Auchi Obtain A Visa?
The Government Officials Approached Are Not Known, But Sen. Obama Had Just Taken Office In The U.S. Senate In 2005. “The officials who Rezko approached are not specified. Sen. Obama had just taken office as a U.S. senator in 2005, the same year he sought Rezko’s help in the purchase of his home.” (Brain Ross, “Obama ‘Backer’ Rezko Ordered To Jail,” ABC News’ “The Blotter” Blog, www.abcnews.com, 1/28/08)
The Infamous House Deal:
Auchi’s Wire Transfer To Rezko Came Less Than Two Months Before The Obamas And Rita Rezko Closed On The Purchases Of The Obama Home And Adjoining Lot Respectively. “April 28, 2005: Mr. Auchi’s conglomerate General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) lends $3.5 Million to Tony Rezko. ... June 15 2005: Mr. Rezko’s wife Rita buys garden plot on same day as Obamas buy neighbouring mock Georgian mansion from same seller. Mrs. Rezko pays asking price of $625,000, with a $500,000 mortgage. Obamas pay $1.65 million, which is $300,000 less than the asking price.”
Is Rezko Describing Joseph Cari’s Relationship With Joe “Stand up for Chuck” Biden?
Joseph Cari Pleaded Guilty In Conjunction With The Rezko Case. “Chicago restaurateur and real estate developer Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, one of Mr. Obama’s first major political donors, was convicted in June on charges of using his Illinois connections to seek kickbacks from firms wanting to do business with the state — an investigation that also netted a guilty plea from Joseph Cari Jr., former national finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee and a longtime supporter and political adviser to Mr. Biden.”
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