Posted on 12/19/2008 12:25:19 AM PST by hoosiermama
Edited on 02/09/2012 7:04:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Crime in Chicago has been in the news lately, but it is nothing new. Historically it dates back over a hundred years. From the tale of the Gray Wolves
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/540.html
The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a faction of its aldermen known as the Gray Wolves. So named because they were viewed as preying upon the defenseless public, the Gray Wolves were led by First Ward aldermen “Bathhouse” John Coughlin and “Hinky Dink” Mike Kenna, and Johnny Powers of the Nineteenth Ward. These elected officials were not only skilled at trading votes for favors, but once in office they excelled in making municipal decisions to profit themselves financially.
TO the present, it is a compelling historical subject.
“Please post links and information, or connections of dots to this thread. Keep chit chat to the minimum or in Freemail. THANKS!”
Cross reference name: Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. and his wife, Lynn
Politicians took money from indicted oilman
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
Sep 12, 2007 06:06 PM EST
Updated: September 14, 2007 02:08 PM EST
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson and a host of congressional candidates from both parties accepted cash from Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. and his wife, Lynn,since the federal government accused the Texas oilman of paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein.
I’m looking forward to that.
Rahm-E’s problems: WOnder if those four letter words include an “N” word a little larger?
....political insiders in Chicago are speculating that the tapes paint a sordid portrait of Emanuel. Not that he’s been discovered to be making an illegal deal with Blago over Obama’s Senate seat. No, the scandal that is poised to emerge from the Emanuel tapes has to do with his foul character. “What is now called the Silence of the Rahm has developed, with a cocoon of muteness that has descended upon Cong. Rahm Emanuel, who has been slated to be Obama’s chief-of-staff,” writes noted political commentator, Thomas Roeser, in a recent column. “What worries the Obama media people is not that Rahm is caught on tape with Blago and staff a full 21 times — but that Emanuel’s propensity for four-letter words will be revealed and cause a distinct toxic shock to idealists who believe Obama will bring a wafting air of clean breeze to politics.”
From an INSIDE SOURCE:
THE reason that Obama was “pushed” by the Chicago Machine is the 2016 Olympics. The SAME players: Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Rahm, the Pritzkers, the Daleys ....and more....all stand to make a bundle if CHICAGO gets the Olympic nod.
The word before the election was Chicago had a 50/50 chance of getting the nod. The elite Olympic team (again many of the same players) now thinks the chances are 100%.
This is BIG bucks for Chicago bigwigs and BIG property owners. Obama’s house is just a few blocks from where the Olympic stadium will be constructed. Coincidence?
Judicial Watch Obtains Documents: Blagojevich Contacts with Obama and Transition Team
Thank you for meeting with me on Tuesday in Philadelphia. Vice President-elect Joe Biden and I were pleased with the open discussion."
"As we discussed, I would appreciate any advice you can provide to me and my team on the biggest roadblocks to states in moving forward in ‘getting ready to go' projects started quickly."
Ha Ha Ha Ha - I really am Laughing Out Loud!
chuckle chuckle hehehehe....
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword and all that.
Thanks for the laugh!
Re: Olympics/Mark Ndesandjo BO half brother
See post 164
Mark Ndesandjo, son of Barack Obama’s late father and his third wife. He has/runs/works with an internet based company, WorldNexus Ltd. It provides corporate communications and website designs to a Chinese firm seeking customers in English speaking markets, of which the United States is the biggest.
Huawei, which has been named a security threat by CFIUS, NATO, Rand and more stole the line access codes and copied thir own brand of nice, cheap CISCO routers.
They have been releaed globally. They are called CISCO Nexus.
Nadhmi Auchi had helped Orascom gain a contract to set up mobile phone networks in post Saddam’s Iraq.
Orascom also funded the English language web site efforts of WorldNexus.
Huawei was in the middle of a merger with Bain Capital and 3Com when Romney was running for President. You may remember the battle between ‘us Duncan Hunter’ supporters vs. Romney supporters. Duncan Hunter condemned Romney a number of times in press releases to oppose the Huawei, Bain, 3Com merger as a security risk.
Obama/Richarson/ David RUBEN link
From:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/01/05/beyond-bill-richardson
But it isn’t just Obama and Richardson that Rubin has ties to. According to federal law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, federal officials are also looking into CDR’s political and financial ties to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, as well as to Democrat state and local officials in Illinois, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
Rendell placed Rubin on a political patronage commission in Pennsylvania, and Rubin was also given a seat on a Los Angeles City commission back in 2002, both seemingly as the result of political contributions to political action committees. Rubin has also been a financial supporter of Rev. Al Sharpton.
CDR also had close business ties to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, marketing and selling financial instruments created through low-income housing “lease to own” programs across the country. “If someone wants to understand just how deep Democrats are into the housing bubble and the economic crisis, they should look at some of the financial wheeling and dealing around some of those ‘lease to own’ programs,” says a former Freddie Mac lobbyist based in Washington. “It’s a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Democratic state and local politics from New York to Los Angeles.”
More dots to connect: David Ruben & CDR
Here are some quick facts:
1. New Mexico award CDR won 1.4 million dollars from the New Mexico government after donating 100,000 dollars to two Richardson organizations. This is the incident the FBI has pushing hard on.
2. David Rubin of CDR has been involved in Politics from being on Ed Rendell’s transition team in 2003, to being appointed to the LA Housing Authority.
3. CDR has been involved in Low Income Housing plans with the now bankrupt Freddi Mac.
4. CDR was involved in possible corruption in Philadelphia from 2000-2003.
5. CDR managed to leave low income housing called Oakwood Terrace as a cesspool.
6. CDR May have also swindled Atlanta.
7. ON Sept 28th2007 the SEC fined CDR and Anchor National Life Insurance Company,(A company owned by AIG) for various corruption scandals.
8. CDR and David Rubin have poured 10’s of thousands of dollars in various Democrats including Hillary Clinton and President-Elect Obama.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
4. CDR was involved in possible corruption in Philadelphia from 2000-2003.
Wonder how this connects with:
Burris has gone on to receive over $1 million in no-bid, low-effort “consulting” contracts from Illinois State agencies under the Governor’s control as well as a $5000/month “retainer” from Loop Capital, headed by BHO homie Jim Reynolds.
Jim Reynold is one of BO longest and best friend. Loop Capital is also partly run by Craig Robinson BO’s BIL.
“In 2003, James Reynolds, A Chicago Investment Banker Who Is A Member Of Obama’s National Finance Committee, Was Recorded On FBI Wiretaps Arranging What Prosecutors Said Was A “Sham’ Consulting Contract With A Woman They Called The “Paramour’ Of A Mayoral Adviser In Philadelphia. His Firm Later Won $300,000 Worth Of City Contracts.” (Ken Dilanian and Matt Kelley, “Fundraisers Linked To Corruption Cases,” USA Today, 10/16/08)
37 posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:18:47 PM by hoosiermama
A “WHAT’S UP” post
FROM:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2159691/posts
... Barack Obama resigned his senate seat in early November.
At the time we made several points regarding the Obama resignation:
(1) Obama accomplished nothing in the U.S. Senate other than advance himself; .
(2) Obama demonstrated once again that he will “flick off the burden of responsibility” when responsibility, as it usually does, counters self-advancement; .
(3) Obama knew he was not qualified to run for president from the very beginning (see video below); .
(4) there was much work to do in the U.S. Senate post-election and every Democratic vote was needed; .
(5) dumping his responsibilities Obama resigned the day before the current U.S. Senate reconvened; .
(6) Obama’s is the earliest resignation ever after a presidential election win; .
(7) Joe Biden won’t resign from the Senate until after the new Senate convenes.
Today’s New York Times confirms that Joe Biden will be sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the new U.S. Senate.
David Rubin Attended Exclusive Hollywood Fundraiser for Obama
FROM: ABC News
In late September, Rubin attended an exclusive Los Angeles fundraiser for Obama, held at the Beverly Hills’ Greystone Mansion. Attendees gave tens of thousands of dollars which the campaign split between its own coffers, the Democratic National Committee and state-level campaign groups supporting Obama and Democratic candidates. The technique helps campaigns take in from individuals far more than the $2,300 maximum they are allowed to give to a single campaign fund.
Rubin’s money went to a joint Obama-DNC fund ($28,500), the DNC itself ($26,200), and to the Obama campaign ($2,300), according to the database of campaign donations at OpenSecrets.Org. News of the federal investigation into Rubin’s New Mexico dealings had broken less than three weeks earlier.
Daley want money:
From:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159935/posts
Chicago SunTimes ^ |
...Daley was cagey when asked how a city struggling to survive its worst budget crisis in recent history would come up with the matching funds needed to qualify for federal grants. That’s normally where the state comes in.
“That’s how you do creative financing,” he said.
Chief Financial Officer Paul Volpe, the mayor’s newly-designated chief-of-staff, refused to say what the mayor meant by “creative financing.” Last week, Volpe acknowledged that Chicago closed the book on 2008 $31 million deeper in the hole than previously thought because of declining revenues tied to the economic downturn. He warned that the city might have to tap into a $324 million “rainy day fund” created when Chicago parking meters were
....
Daley said Chicago put itself “in a different position” than other major cities by privatizing Midway Airport and Chicago parking meters for a combined $3.65 billon last year. But, that doesn’t mean the city is out of the woods. Far from it.
“Every two weeks, we’re gonna be reporting revenue streams ‹ what’s coming in, what’s not coming in,” said the mayor, who was criticized last fall for blindsiding Chicago aldermen with a $469 million deficit.
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I was just a babe in 1890....but I’ll be HAPPY to bump the thread! ;)
Chicago Parking Corruption:
(something positive)
From:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:kLyBK95Nr5IJ:parkingtoday.typepad.com/parking_blog/2008/12/chicago-parking.html+Chicago+parking+%2B+Corruption&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
Chicago Parking Politics…
The problem with talking about Chicago Politics is that corruption is so pervasive that’s its almost impossible not to think about it and connect graft and payoffs to virtually everything. We probably should tread carefully, however when we consider the latest “sale” of parking infrastructure.
My contacts on both sides of the deal say that the city did well. They covered their budget (although I could think of other ways to do it, it was probably politically impossible to cut it much more), have a few bucks in the bank, are past a “crisis” for at least the next five years, and have gotten the headache of trying to run a parking program in that most intense of all political environments.
What happened to the parking:
FROM: http://www.corruptpolitics.net/?tag=chicago-parking
... In the midst of our current financial crisis, Chicago, IL. attempting to ward off all the crisis it has has laid off a slew of their tradesmen or limited their services. This past few days snowfall and cold weather has run havoc on the people and their cars. The drivers of plows and salt trucks sent home at end of normal day and if something happens on the weekend it will have to wait till Monday.
Now for the parking! Chicago has subbed out a lease for the parking meters. A 75 year lease! It is expected that the price for a vehicle parked for an hour will go up from $.25 to up to $6.00.
Now I don’t know what the situation is with welfare at the moment but what will this increase do to all the folks working at minimum wage there at $7.75 an hour and driving downtown???
Blank-o’s Calender
From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_calendar
...The meeting with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, also was attended by Tom Balanoff, president of the Illinois chapter of the union, which has been Blagojevich’s largest campaign contributor.....
...Other entries on Blagojevich’s calendars for September, October, November and December include the governor attending a party for Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell, who is trying to sell the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, lunch with the Cubs’ general manager and a meeting with a wealthy former Senate candidate.
Some of the people who appear on the schedules are also referenced by pseudonyms .
....SEIU spokeswoman Michelle Ringuette said Tuesday. She declined further comment, citing the ongoing federal investigation.
Balanoff is mentioned in Obama’s report on his transition team’s contacts with the Illinois governor. The report says Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Balanoff discussed the notion that Blagojevich could be appointed Health and Human Services secretary, which Jarrett dismissed as “ridiculous.”
....
Blagojevich also had scheduled September meetings with former Senate candidate Blair Hull and J.B. Pritzker, the brother of a close adviser to Obama. He attended a party Sept. 27 for Zell and had lunch Nov. 21 with Cubs general manager Jim Hendry....
...The schedule shows Blagojevich met on Sept. 8 with Blair Hull, an independently wealthy businessman who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2004 — the seat that Obama won. The schedule also indicates the meeting was attended by “Lon,” an apparent reference to former Blagojevich chief of staff Lon Monk, who appears in the complaint as “Lobbyist 1.” Authorities acknowledge Monk’s phone was tapped, too. ...
...Sept. 2, Blagojevich was scheduled to have breakfast with investor J.B. Pritzker, whose sister is Obama supporter Penny Pritzker.
Guerrero said he knew nothing about the Hull and Pritzker meetings....
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