Posted on 04/23/2010 12:49:05 PM PDT by mojito
Why is Antoin “Tony” Rezko under lock and key at an undisclosed location, like some sort of CIA-renditioned al Qaeda operative? And why hasn’t he been sentenced yet?
As the June 3 corruption trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for allegedly trying to sell Obama’s former Illinois Senate seat approaches, the whereabouts of the former Blago and Obama fundraiser is literally a state secret.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Rezko was moved from Chicago’s downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center on December 16th, even though it’s right across the street from the federal courthouse where Blago will be tried.
Rezko’s not listed on the federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator, either.
“Nobody knows where he is,” a source in Chicago told The Examiner.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
If anyone still doubts that this is a criminal thuggish regime...read on.
Tony is bowling in the basement of the White House.
Waiting for Obummer to set him free.
It’s called “Diesel Therapy”.
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Obama: not only POTUS, but the best hider-awayer of things tied to his past ever!
He sleeps with the fishes?.................
Maybe Tony will get the Jim Macdougal suite...............
where was that cell where Jim McDougal froze to death?
“Nobody knows where he is,” a source in Chicago told The Examiner.
The other big question: Why hasn’t Rezko been sentenced yet? It’s been almost two years since the Chicago restaurant and real estate developer was convicted on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges.
After months of unexplained delays, Rezko’s January 6th sentencing date was canceled again – this time indefinitely – by U.S. District Court Judge Amy St. Eve, a former Whitewater prosecutor. Reporters were initially told that Rezko was cooperating with prosecutors, but he apparently stopped talking and demanded to be sentenced as soon as possible. That request was obviously denied.
Randall Samborn, spokesman for Fitzgerald, told The Examiner that Rezko “remains in federal custody,” although admitting that he didn’t know exactly where the convicted businessman was being held...Sources in Chicago tell us that the long delay is “very unusual.”
Is Rezko being held at another prison facility for his own safety? There are plenty of people in Chicago and Washington who might not want Rezko on the witness stand. They include:
Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias.
Rezko was such an enthusiastic customer of Giannoulias’ failing Broadway Bank that he wrote $450,000 in bad checks against his account to pay off gambling debts.
Alderman Eddie Burke
Rezko hired Burke’s law firm to get a 77 percent reduction in the real estate taxes of a 62-acre property along the Chicago River he planned to develop using $140 million in city subsidies. After assuring the Chicago Board of Ethics that he would abstain from any Council votes on Rezko’s project, Burke voted for it anyway, blaming his conflict of interest on “an error.” The project was later abandoned.
President Barack Obama
Rezko was the president’s “real estate fairy,” as one Chicago columnist likes to put it. Remember how they bought a house together in Chicago?
If I were Tony Rezko, I’d be hiding, too.
Yeah. A comfy solitary bed, optional urine checks, and your heart meds right under the pillow...
He may be in the witness protection program...............only he’s not the one being “protected”..................
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Ft. Marcy Park?
Dropping out of the limelight can be tough on one’s health. Perhaps, that is why Ayers is working so hard to talk softly and stay public.
“I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform. I encourage the General Assembly to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent these kinds of abuses in the future”
Obama’s statement in 2008
After collecting from Rezko and applying the proper diesel therapy: Reform!!!
After collecting from Goldman Sachs and appying the proper diesel therapy: Reform!!!
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In the Lincoln bedroom? Kidding aside, it is very strange.
...taking tea with Polonius...
“only he’s not the one being “protected””
Well, I’m sure they told him it was for his own good. And considering the alternatives, it probably was! Tony’s lived in Chicago long enough to know that if you rat out the Big Kahuna, you can expect to sleep with the fishes. And to hedge their bets against Tony’s been too thick-headed to understand this simple truth, they probably arranged for him and Rahm to take a shower together.
“After long delays, Mr. Obama sat with the editorial boards of the Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune in March to answer their questions about his connection to Rezko. He had no recollection of ever meeting Mr. Auchi. He also said he didn’t understand a lot about house buying, and gave vague answers to other questions. Since then, he has avoided any further discussion of the Rezko matter.”
From WSJ article August 30, 2008
Mr. Auchi: Iraqi Billionare living in London, Patner of Rezko, associated with UN Oil for Food.
Obama is unfamiliar with and has not met all the craziest of people.
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