Posted on 10/03/2008 7:19:22 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
FBI Raids Obama Friend's Home
Andrea Billups
Washington Times
October 3, 2008
The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.
According to Chicago authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime friend of Mr. Obama's, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan.
Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid. With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan.
Will County auditor Steve Weber confirmed that his office had been asked by the FBI to assist in an investigation, but he did not elaborate on the specifics.
Two FBI agents out of Chicago reportedly spent more than an hour in the Will County offices on Wednesday morning.
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God help us if this crook becomes POTUS.
He’s not the poker player I knew....
That is what it looks like...
“That’s not the Mr. Walsh I knew.”
“According to Chicago authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime friend of Mr. Obama’s, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan.”
If you look at that picture and imagine him with a bowtie, he’d look like one of the Farakan crowd.
Good God! What a great question. One that needs to be looked into...
Does Larry Sinclair count?
Washington Times report.
with obama the Clintons have gone to the back burner but you are right, though obama is starting to beat them and that is saying something
I think Will County is as corrupt at Cook County, or giving it a good run for the #1 spot in corruption in Illinois!
Has REZKO begun to spill the beans on Obama and friends?
Better yet, why hasn’t the MSM covered it?
If this were someone like, say TED STEVENS, it would be LEADING the CBS evening news!!!
Where’s Will County?
With friends and “associates” like his can we imagine what a nightmare his cabinet would be?
There picking on Larry because he is black, right?
Will County Watch{blog} following this..
http://willcountywatcher.wordpress.com/
Larry is his most patriotic friend ;-)
South west of Cooke County, adjacent to Dupage County. Will County contains a number of Chicago suburbs.
Close enough for corruption to prevail. The GOP is so outnumbered in our state!
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