Posted on 09/12/2009 1:29:47 PM PDT by Velveeta
Two sources with knowledge of the situation told the Tribune today they have been notified that Christopher Kelly, a key figure into the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com ...
WHOA!!
A stranger trying to take his car at the hospital...a ‘girlfriend’ that won’t talk and has lawyered up...the fact that Kelly had the most damning goods on Obama and Rezko according to reports.....vomit all over the car and the parking lot(which suggests that he might have been being held until the aspirin could have done irreversible damage leading to death)...another car being involved at the lumber yard..the possibility that Kelly had stuff stored there(evidence that the thugs were looking for?)....a strange acting mayor...throw in the ‘penis operation’ and we have a wise guy movie!
The other thing that doesn’t make sense is that he was reportedly stabilized and up and talking at the hospital...he is transferred and suddenly dies? Did the final death blow come while he was being transferred by ‘bad actors’? Who ordered him transferred from the first hospital?
You guys have done some awesome digging.
Just wow!
As I recall this was yet another story that appeared to have pages scrubbed from the web.
OT:
See this thread for more on Harris:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2232588/posts
Key witness in (presidential) passport fraud case fatally shot [old article]
Washington Times ^ | 4/18/2008 | rxsid
They found Quarles Lewis slumped over in a car, his body full of holes.No silencers, and whoever did it knew the police response time and beat the hell out of it, likely on foot.
Obama's client files when he practced law included a gang of Drug Dealers in Chicago. One reason Oba's client list has never been released.Liklihood is that Ram Manual, or a henchman can pick up the phone and make the arrangements.
This is very bad news for America, and for all those who are moving on Obama's Article II, sec 1, elegibility proof.They need to be very careful.
I do not beleive Kelly did himself in with a couple of bottles of Asprin, someone likely made him take them at gun point, and threatened his family if he said anything OR put them into something that he unsuspectingly ate.
We are dealibg with a very sick crowd of fascisti IMHO.
I thought most pain pills had an acetaminophen component(not an aspirin one). The reports said that it was an acetylsalicylic poisoning(I thought)...???
MO
It was during Stroger’s time at the helm of the county that the aged and outmoded Cook County Hospital was replaced by a new, modern facility nearby that bears John Stroger’s name.
Daley said he did not know where Stroger died or at what time.
Stroger is the namesake of the county’s public hospital, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, which opened in 2002, replacing Cook County Hospital.
First elected to the County Board in 1970, Stroger championed the construction of a new public hospital for years. He made it the focus of his agenda after he was elected board president in 1994.
At the urging of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the County Board named the hospital in honor of Stroger before construction was completed.
“The greatest thing that can make me happy is that this hospital continue to serve the people who definitely need it,” Stroger said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 11, 2002, the day before the hospital opened.
A native of Arkansas, Stroger moved to Chicago in 1953 and quickly got involved in local Democratic politics, joining Ralph Metcalfe’s 3rd Ward organization.
Stroger and his wife, Yonnie, married in 1959 and later moved south to the city’s 8th Ward. In 1968, Mayor Richard J. Daley made Stroger the ward’s first black Democratic committeeman.
At the time of his stroke, which occurred March 14, 2006, Stroger was the longest-serving member of the 80-member Cook County Democratic Central Committee.
Party loyalists rallied to his cause, and despite questions about his condition, the bedridden Stroger beat County Commissioner Forrest Claypool to secure the party’s nomination for a fourth term.
He retired July 31, 2006, and the County Board appointed Bobbie Steele to fulfill the last four months of his final term. Democratic Party leaders slated Todd Stroger for the November 2006 ballot, and he went on to win the office, beating Republican County Commissioner Tony Peraica.
In addition to his wife and son, Stroger is survived by a daughter, Yonnie Lynn, and two grandchildren. Another son, Hans, died in 1982.
Wow I was on there forever, there are also other links as well.
Correct me if I am wrong but it looks like Harris got busted for selling weed and possessing 21 stolen credit cards. Interestingly enough he had and an 8 page printout from the passport office, that appears to be courtesy of one of two perps at the Analysis corp.(who were unnamed yet fired) headed up by John O Brennan.
Seems two perps were delving into zeros passport info and just to make it look good they looked up Hillary and McCain's as well but in truth it was an effort to alter zeros passport info which may have included a place of birth.
Orly is mentioned in the piece but I still don't follow how she gets into it.
Funniest comment of all is one made by Chicago city police who stated that: "they do not know whether his death was a direct result of his cooperation with a federal investigation."well duhhhhh......
Todd seems to be right up at the top with the Mayor and the Ex Gov.
Googled BLank-O and Todd and got MANY hits....almost too many to link.
Just remember..in Chicago..every politician and bureaucrat is a potential mobster or bought by one...including the medical examiner. Do we know who the medical examiner is that will be doing the autopsy and toxicology tests?
Video of presser at this link:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/09/mayor-kellys-girlfriend-is-lawyered-up-not-talking.html
I remember press about him being totally
incapacitated from the stroke, and the
son refused to admit it .. played that
scenario for months ...no press coverage,
all smoke and mirrors. It was a big secret,
the state his father was really in ... until
somehow everything’s orchestrated and one day
the father is declared dead, and the son
magically takes his place.
I think it’s likely he was comatose the whole
time .. think weekend at Ernie’s.
It was the Chicago thug machine soap opera
on speed.
I’m so glad to see that Fitzgerald did such a great job cleaning up this cesspool. /s
(no links)
Stroger Worked His Way Up - Seeks to Be 1st Black President Of County Bd.
Chicago Sun-Times - Monday, January 31, 1994
Author: Lou Ortiz
EXCERPT
Early on, Stronger worked as an assistant city auditor for the old Chicago Municipal Court the year he arrived, then was personnel director at Cook County Jail before moving to a state agency.
He began his political career in 1968 when he was elected 8th Ward committeeman, a job he still holds. Two years later, he won election as county commissioner; he has been a member of the County Board for 23 years.
Before running for office, he married and earned a law degree from DePaul University in 1965.
Despite his loyalty to Democrats, party bosses refused to slate him in the 1978 primary for county assessor. In 1980, he lost a three-way race for Congress against U.S. Rep. Bennett Stewart and Harold Washington, who won.
Then tragedy struck in 1982. Stroger ‘s son Hans Stroger , 22, died of asthma shortly after graduating from college.
“You never think about burying one of your kids,” said Stroger . “You’re never the same. It is indescribable.”
Stroger said his son’s death made him more sensitive and compassionate.
But Palmer said Stroger has constantly turned his back on black politicians. In 1983, Stroger supported Richard Daley over Washington, who became the city’s first black mayor.
In 1992, Stroger backed the appointment as county commissioner of John Daley, the mayor’s brother, “when there was a chance to put another black on the County Board,” said Palmer, who is chairman of the Black Independent Political Organization.
“There are a lot of us out here who see him as the agent of the enemy,” said Palmer.
//
Stroger to resign as county chief: Son to run for job - John Daley will fill in as interim president
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Friday, June 30, 2006
Author: Fran Spielman, The Chicago Sun-Times
Under fire for the leadership vacuum in Cook County government, stroke-stricken John Stroger has decided to resign as county board president on July 31 rather than serve until the end of the year — paving the way for Mayor Daley ‘s brother to become Stroger ‘s interim replacement.
“This was a decision he made for the good of the county government, so that the county govenment could continue to operate without his presence,” said Ald. William Beavers (7th), confirming Thursday night Stroger ‘s intent to resign at the end of the month.
Under a complex deal, Beavers would be tapped to replace Stroger as a county commissioner.
Stroger ‘s original plan was to remain in office while his son, Ald. Todd Stroger (8th), replaced him on the November ticket to run for board president.
“I believe he will serve out his term,” Todd Stroger had told reporters earlier this week.
(snip)
County Board members reacted angrily to the contradictory declaration. They said they would refuse to go along with John Stroger ‘s plan to serve out his term in absentia — emboldened by a recent state’s attorney’s opinion that they have the authority to remove him from office.
“Something has to happen . . . Somebody’s got to be there making decisions,” said County Commissioner Gregg Goslin, who said the scenario was “getting insulting.”
On Thursday, Beavers, self-declared spokesman for the Stroger family, did an about-face. He called Democratic ward bosses whose support he needs to replace one Stroger with another on the November ballot to say that John Stroger has decided to resign as board president.
Stroger ‘s resignation as president on July 31 would not affect his seat on the board.
Either way, it paves the way for John Daley , the mayoral brother who chairs the County Board’s Finance Committee, to fill the leadership void temporarily and do the political dirty work of balancing the county budget.
(snip)
Read somewhere (right before the 44 arrested in NJ) that there were 50+ arrests/indictments in Chicago since the first of the year....a few at a time....Lower levels who are making deals on higher ups....
Not sure if Kelly/Blank-O were included in the indictments. John WIma actually knows more than Kelly did. They were in competition to see who could be the biggest suck up to Blank-O and Daley.....Guess Wima won.....Now if he can just stay alive.
When Alderman Burke/his judge wife are arrested, Daley and Obama won’t be far behind.
My fondest dream.
Very strange presser too. The mayor contradicts himself several times, gets a phone call in the middle of it, knocks over the mic and then claims there were no security cameras at a place that is also a storage warehouse? Kelly was sitting up on the gurney talking to people(6-8 hours after ingesting the ‘substance’ according to the mayor’s statements on the tape it was between 9-10:00 when they believe the ‘aspirin’ was taken)..a ‘private’ ambulance transports him to Cook County at 4:15 a.m. and he is pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m. Saturday.
NOT BUYING IT!!
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