Please feel free to get into far more details.
It was paid by African Press International, using Norweigan currency, for exclusive rights to the Michele Obama rant and also for his share of the money from that Nigeran prince.
If I recall correctly.
Here’s what HillBuzz says the deal was
“In short, Obama had massive campaign debt coming off of his failed bid to challenge Bobby Rush for a seat in Congress. Smarting from that loss, Obama needed money, so he turned to Yesse Yehudah. Whats so strange about this is that Yehudah is a Republican so why would he raise money for Obama? What the article below does not say is that, magically, 10 people who work for Yehudah and have never given money to any elected official before - AND WHO COULD NOT AFFORD TO MAKE $1,000 donations - all made $1,000 donations to Obama simultaneously. As if someone else made the donations for all of them, in their names, with money that came from somewhere else.
The quid pro quo on this is simple: Obama took a $10,000 bribe from Yehudah for using his position in the state senate to throw a $75,000 grant to Yehudahs nonprofit organization. People here in Chicago say this was obvious politics in Illinois: where Obama agreed to get Yehudah a grant, but Obamas fee for this transaction was $10,000 to pay off his campaign debt.
Yehudahs nonproft later came under investigation, and Obama panicked: he dumped $5,000 of the bribe money he took over to Yehudah as fast as he could after that.”
HillBuzz cites an LA Times article by Dan Morain from Sept. 8,2007 as corroboration.