Pinged you here cause: Thought you might have some information to add to this Repository of Chicago Crime thread.....
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Newest: “Poor Vetting from Team Obama Strikes Twice in One Day (Richardson and now maybe Clinton?)”
Includes names to cross reference later:
Robert Congel
Destiny USA roadway construction
Philippe Reines
Carousel Center in Syracuse.
WASHINGTON: A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman’s mall project.
Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.
She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.
The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.
Congel and Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, both said there was no connection between his donation and her legislative work on his project’s behalf. Reines said the senator had supported the expansion of Carousel mall “purely as part of her unwavering commitment to improving upstate New York’s struggling economy, and nothing more.”
Thanks, I’ve got it bookmarked now.
Being from Chicago, the one thing I can tell you is - the dirty politics are and always have been astounding.
Watch for Blagojevich to take ALOT of folks down with him. He’ll sing like a canary.