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>>>I predict this Rezko think will be big and Hussein will take a heavy hit from it. More to follow...
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>>Is that the former Cop having "a smell" on Rezko or the reminiscence of shady deals the last Dem prez had ?
>>Not enough info on that flowing "over here" to form an opinion.
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>Tony Rezko is an Illinois political insider whose corruption trial in Chicago ended in conviction earlier this week. There were many charges but the gist of it was he was taking bribes from people who wanted to do business with the state. The Obama connection is Rezko has raised money for Obama campaigns and also sold him a piece of property. Obama was not involved in any of the charges. The guy who has a lot to worry about is Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He took office on a promise of cleaning up Illinois's notoriously corrupt politics. In fact he seems to have been as corrupt as any of his busy predecessors. Gov. Rod is already under investigation by the feds and if I am reading the papers right he will be the target of a case that builds on the Rezko trial.

Thanks for the background: I had only some inkling about the property deal. Could lead at least to questions about bad judgement.

>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blago-budget-06jun06,0,3821914.story

Well, we certainly don't have such enterprizing politicians - shows more about the ways fund raisnig and fleecing the public can go wrong in the US. Not that our politicians are better as a class: some fleece the public by inheriting posts in government owned companies and middlemen like Rezko ar not needed. And out and out corruption exists here as well, perhaps a bit less blatant though. No idea which way is more detrimental <g>.

thx for the very educating piece!

thomas