Posted on 12/13/2008 12:08:27 PM PST by Phoenix11
Let's run down the list, shall we...
1. Allison Davis, Obama's boss at his law firm, was a player in the extortion attempt in the Board Games case. Davis also partnered with Rezko and received taxpayer subsidies to rehab apartments and homes, getting deal after deal from Mayor Daley. Daley, Davis, Rezko, Blago, and Obama have all worked together to obtain government funding for said "housing development". In exchange, the slumlords have financed Blago and Obama's political careers.
2. Two politicians specifically received donations from the kickback schemes. You guessed it. Blago and Obama. From the first pay-off, 20K was funneled through the pizza businesses to Obama.
3. Rezko was a major player in a scheme to obtain millions of dollars by shaking down firms doing business before two boards that Stuart Levine served on, the Teachers Retirement System and the Hospital Facilities Planning Board. Blago, his campaign manager, Obama, along with others, got Levine re-appointed to the Hospital Facilities Planning Board.
4. John Rogers, the head of an investment firm that ended up with major money from the pension funds, was a member of Obama's finance committee for his Senate and Presidential run. Others on the finance committee for the Senate run: Tony and Rita Rezko, Allison Davis, and Mike Cherry.
5. After Rezko's indictment, Obama donated all of the $11.5K that Rezko gave in campaign contributions. Ha, funny thing is, it turned out to be close to 250K.
6. Massuda was one of several members of the Health Facilities Planning Board appointed by Blago to serve after he won legislative approval to overhaul its membership. Who signed off on the legislative approval? You guessed it, Obama.
7. Mayor Daley, endorsed Obama for President. So, "in the spirit of reciprocation", Obama endorsed Daley and his running mates despite various City Hall corruption scandals. Oh yeah, Daley's brother also got a job as an Obama advisor.
8. Alexi Giannoulias became state treasurer after Obama vouched for him. In return, Giannoulias agreed to raise money for Obama's Presidential run. While Alexi was overseeing Broadway Bank's loans, the bank made more than $12 million in loans to Michael Giorango, now convicted bookmaker and prostitution ring promoter. Alexi held a fundraiser for Obama in Sept. 2007, a fact that Obama tried to keep hidden. Alexi also served on Obama's finance committee (Presidential).
9. Valerie Jarrett, met Michelle Obama while Michelle worked for Mayor Daley. In 2006, Jarrett was given a high-ranking job by the University of Chicago, Michelle's employer, to be chair of the Medical Center Board and the newly created Executive Committee of that board.
10. Robert Blackwell Jr. paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer for "legal advice" for a technology firm he owned. As a "thank you", Obama wrote a letter so that another company Blackwell owned could receive a state grant.
11. After Blago was elected governor, the TPS board was stacked so that favored investment firms were able to invest parts of the retirement fund’s $30 billion in assets. The "Co-Schemers", including William Cellini, then demanded kickbacks and worked to funnel money to Blago and Obama's political careers.
12. The "Co-Schemers" then reduced the size of the HFP board from 15 to 9 members, stacking it with 5 so that they had the majority. In 2004, the HFP board approved the building of a new hospital, though state analysts said it was not needed. Barack Obama was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services and was in on the correspondence for the TPS and HFP boards. The reason the hospital was not built? Fitzgerald. The builder of the hospital paid bribes to those who made the construction of the hospital possible. Kiferbaum pleaded guilty and is now singing like Rezko.
This is an excellent source of info. Thanks...
It is EXACTLY this kind of research that attracted me to FreeRepublic. I’d like to see a lot more of this....
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Thanks to Phoenix11 and other Freepers contributing information.
You are welcome, please spread the info around.
My son is in Chicago at Loyola and this tracks with what his professor has been saying about Chicago politics and how corrupt ZERO and the rest of the Daley machine are in the city.
Very good research and will help get it moving around. This is going to be an interesting two years until 2010 and we need to hold ZERO’s feet to the fire. At the same time we need to look for good candidates to run that are HONEST and ETHICAL.
Thanks for the link — cannot believe how much info is out there now about Chicago corruption that will taint ZERO as they are his best friends. ZERO may supplant Clinton as having a corrupt administration.
Will keep the information flowing around.
Glad to be of service, madame.
Bump!
Interesting, thanks for posting.
We can’t post stuff from USA Today (or even links it seems) but for anyone interested, search for an article that is an excerpt of an upcoming biography of Michelle Obama. Or FReepmail me, and I’ll give you the link to the article.
Does it mention why the court took her law license or who she worked for/with when she was a real estate agent?
I just FReepmailed you the link.
Whoa, that’s article is going to take some ambition to tackle. Thanks for the heads up.
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