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 we’re getting from the Obama people, okay?”
Case 1:08-cr-00888 Document 306 Filed 04/14/10 Page 83 of 91
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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.