Posted on 02/01/2009 10:45:13 PM PST by smokingfrog
The mountain of documents the grand jury wants from the Illinois Housing Development Authority includes two projects in which President Obama has acknowledged playing a minor role. Both of those projects involved Rezko, a former fund-raiser for Obama. One of them included Davis, who was once Obama's boss at a small law firm.
The grand jury is the same panel that's investigating alleged corruption under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
It issued the subpoena Sept. 29, 2008, newly released records show.
Four months later, IHDA officials are still gathering the documents, memos, e-mails and other records involving "more than dozens" of low-income housing projects funded by the state agency, said IHDA attorney Mary Kenney. "It's a very large production," said Kenney.
Cellini -- a powerful Republican Party figure ever since he served as transportation secretary under then-Gov. Richard Ogilvie in the late 1960s -- has been getting deals at IHDA since 1976, when James R. Thompson was elected governor.
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~~~And just ONE reason why BHO has and needs a platoon of attorneys ... PING!
“Among those was a senior citizen building he and Rezko built at 4801 S. Cottage Grove, just outside the Illinois Senate district Obama then represented.
Though the project was outside his district, Obama wrote letters in 1998 to IHDA and city officials, urging them to give Davis and Rezko government funding for the project. Obama has said he didn’t remember writing the letters, which he has called “form letters’’ sent out by a staff member.”
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Rezko attorney ‘owns’ Obama mansion
Lawyer at firm where Democrat worked receives tax bill
Posted: December 25, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
William Miceli
An attorney for convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko is listed as the owner and taxpayer for Barack Obama’s Chicago mansion, according to records obtained by WND.
William Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which also formerly employed Obama.
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