Posted on 04/14/2010 6:19:45 PM PDT by penelopesire
"Rod and Patti Blagojevich have long claimed they dipped into their own checking account to pay for personal home renovations set up by a company of convicted businessman Tony Rezko.
But a newly released, 91-page filing from federal prosecutors alleges that Rezko secretly funneled tens of thousands of dollars to the former first couple by setting up a sham $40,000 real estate commission for Patti Blagojevich. Prosecutors say the money was then used to pay for work on the Ravenswood Manor home.
The company overseeing the work on the home was a Rezko company, Chicago Construction Services."
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
GOVERNMENTS EVIDENTIARY PROFFER SUPPORTING THE ADMISSIBILITY OF CO-CONSPIRATOR STATEMENTS:
http://media.suntimes.com/images/cds/pdf/blagoproffer.pdf
PING! Haven’t read the pdf file yet, but it’s bound to have some gems hidden in it that the media is ignoring so as not to hurt their Messiah. I think it just got released a few days ago.
Rezko obviously worked a lot of sleazebag politicians ........ including obama.
I LOVE BLAGO!
TRULY! I DO!
I just want to run my fingers through his hair, slap a collar around his neck, and walk him through my entire neighborhood to show him off....
He would make one FINE PET!
I JUST LOVE HIM!
hmmmmmm....sounds like Fritzy is going to protect anyone connected to Obama. Why is he only prosecuting one person involved in this vast conspiracy? Doesn’t it indeed take more than one person to make a ‘conspiracy’? (eye roll)
From the EVIDENTIARY PROFFER:
“Throughout this motion, the government will refer to uncharged individuals and to certain
entities by labels instead of their identities. The government will use the same labels for these
individuals and entities that were used in the Second Superseding Indictment. To avoid confusion,
the government has identified additional people who were not referenced in the Second Superseding
Indictment beginning with the designation Individual __. Entities that were not in the Second
Superseding Indictment have been given descriptive labels as well. The government will provide
the true identity of the names of individuals and entities who are not disclosed in this motion to the
Court and to counsel for the defendants.
17/ There are additional individuals that the government believes would properly be
considered co-conspirators in the charged conspiracies or schemes that are not included on this list.
The government is not seeking to introduce statements by those individuals pursuant to Rule
801(d)(2)(E), so the government has not designated those individuals as co-conspirators for purposes
of this proffer. The government reserves the right to amend its list of co-conspirators, including to
add additional co-conspirators, and simply provides the above list in furtherance of its proffer of
evidence to demonstrate a conspiracy existed.”
LOL..He’d make a great Elvis impersonator.
Surveillance photo of the bag man.
LOL!
Reading the proffer now. It’s sickening to read. These crooked Chicago politicians were hooked up with investment firms,pension planners,lawyers,hospitals and others. All working together to scheme and plot on kickbacks on the taxpayer’s dime. But we are suppose to believe that Obama,a state senator from the Chicago sewer,never did anything remotely wrong and smells like a rose.
Yeah right....(eye roll).
Chicago Way ..................... PING!
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Govt’s proffer ..
http://www.wttw.com/res/pdf/santiago_proffer.pdf
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Blago in new document: ‘Objective is to get a good gig’
*snip*
“Blagojevich’s wife had trouble finding the salary information online.”
Blagojevich allegedly told her not to worry.
“Yeah, that’s, you negotiate that,” the government quoted Blagojevich as saying. “I’d like a 4-year contract for a million a year or somethin’... Or 750 or whatever. It’d have to be good. Obama’s got excess money, he just gives them more money.”
Blagojevich also allegedly described his negotiations over Obama’s preferred candidate, identified previously as Valerie Jarrett. Blagojevich was hopeful he could be named as head of the Department of Health and Human Services in exchange for Jarrett’s nomination.
“So (Jarrett’s) holding Health and Human Services, and I’m holding a U.S. Senate seat. Okay?” Blagojevich allegedly said. “She’s holding hers with two hands, just kinda clinging to, you know, little pieces of it. Me, I’ve got the whole thing wrapped around my arms, mine, okay?”
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Patti Blagojevich Allegedly Used $38K From Rezko To Pay For Home Remodeling
A newly released court document says former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s wife paid more than $38,000 toward remodeling their home two days after convicted fixer and campaign fundraiser Tony Rezko sent her $40,000.
It’s the document that Blagojevich’s defense attorneys didn’t want to reveal: the prosecution’s road map for his upcoming corruption trial.
But a federal judge ordered it released and the document gives new insight into just how deep Patti Blagojevich was supposedly involved in the alleged corruption, reports CBS station WBBM-TV.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/blagojevich.corruption.case.2.1633730.html
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Blagojevich’s wife received tens of thousands from Antoin Rezko, prosecutors allege
Updated 6:05 p.m.
By Peter Slevin
CHICAGO — Illinois businessman and Democratic fundraiser Antoin Rezko was so anxious to help his friend, then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), that he funneled tens of thousands of dollars in payments to Blagojevich’s wife, federal prosecutors contend in a document unsealed Wednesday.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/blagojevichs-wife-received-ten.html
The SEIU stuff is at the end of the proffer. It’s very obvious that Obama sent Stern to do his bidding. This was interesting:
“Later, in reference to associates of Senate Candidate A offering Blagojevich
significant amounts of campaign money in exchange for naming Senate Candidate A to the Senate
seat, Blagojevich stated what [Senate Candidate A] got third parties saying to me is a heck of a lot
more substantial than what were getting from the Obama people, okay?
Case 1:08-cr-00888 Document 306 Filed 04/14/10 Page 83 of 91
84
hmmmm...this tells me that far from Obama not playing Blago’s game for his senate seat(as we have been told by the press and the WH) Obama indeed was ‘playing the game’. Obama just wasn’t offering what Blago thought he deserved.
Video of Blago analysis tonight - 1st on the right. Wondering
what, if any, info they’re getting from Rezko ... still vegetating in jail in limbo.
http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80
Note the 3rd one down is an interview with David
Remnick, total bleeding heart koolaid drinking author,
about his new book on -0, “The Bridge ...., a fantastical
and uber glossy version of -0’s beginnings .. his father,
mother .. and the part that race played.
Thanks for the ping to this tape. It’s interesting that Kelly’s former attorney now thinks the prosecution’s case is weak. Wasn’t it Kelly who blew the lid on the whole pay to play’ scheme in the first place and then mysteriously died(committed suicide?). Most of the panelists seemed to think the prosecution’s case was going no-where. I’d like to know if Fritz has some ‘pay to pay’ schemes of his own going on...lol. Is he going to lose this case on purpose so that Zero,Rahm and Andy Stern are not implicated or called to testify?
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