Posted on 11/01/2008 5:08:57 PM PDT by dascallie
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November 1, 2008
"Obama Allies Under Investigation"
November 1st, 2008 By: Michael van der
Quote: Yet more allies of Sen. Barack Obama are under investigation: it seems that Chicago Mayor Daley may have been involved in a rather lucrative deal with Tony Rezko and Ald. Richard Mell. Mell’s son-in-law is Rod Blagojevich - a name that should sound familiar to those who know a bit about Obama’s connections.
The Chicago Sun-Times explains:
The mayor wouldn’t let Rezko, Dan Mahru and Ali Ata build townhomes at Addison and Kimball on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
Rather than fight City Hall, Rezko and his partners sold the 10-acre site to Home Depot — represented by developer Michael Marchese, a friend of the mayor’s.
Rezko and his partners paid $7.9 million for the vacant land in September 2001. Eleven months later, they sold it to Home Depot for $12.5 million — a 40 percent profit…
Daley wanted the property to remain zoned for manufacturing, which also allows home-supply stores. Mell didn’t want stores and later backed Rezko’s plan for homes.
Their feud ended as Mell’s son-in-law, Rod Blagojevich, was making his first run for Illinois governor.
In 2001, Mell abruptly dropped his opposition to Home Depot on the same day his ward boundaries were redrawn so the controversial corner was no longer in his ward. Four months later, Daley agreed to serve as chairman of Blagojevich’s campaign — an unprecedented move for the mayor. He had never done that for any other candidate for governor.
And Blagojevich and Obama are allies.
Back in January of this year, when accused of profiting from Rezko, Governor Blagojevich said that he was not the only one to do so. Other Democrats, such as Barack Obama, also did, he argued.
For an unknown reason, American elite media are not looking into this issue, while it is most certainly an issue they should investigate. Even if Obama himself is not involved, this is a very dirty case, involving some very powerful (state) politicians and possibly others. http://www.poligazette.com/2008/11/0...investigation/
Looks like Pelosi is not the only one with a swamp full of rotten fish.
If McCain can’t pull this out, all these investigations will end on Jan 21.
By the time they get to him, he'll be ready to retire, but they will get to him, just like his predecessor, Ryan! He's looking thru steel bars as we speak!!
All Illinois government is CORRUPT, especially any that has ties to Daley & Chicago!
Bummer....I thought it was 0bambi’s “public allies” at www.publicallies.org that was on the hot plate.
Unless they are tried and convicted by January 21, it will come to nothing.
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