Patrick Fitzgerald Issues Obama A Warning
By Truthteller on June 4, 2008 at 9:36 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Electability, Patrick Fitzgerald, Superdelegates, Tony Rezko
I quote the following from an article entitled “Rezko scandal already casting shadow over presidential race” dated 4 JUNE 2008:
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said the verdict represented “an antidote to the poison of corruption” that trial testimony alleged included the fixing of state boards that controlled a $40 billion pension fund and made major decisions about million-dollar hospital construction.
He expressed hope it would have an effect on Illinois politicians.
“If morals don’t get to them, I hope the fear of going to jail does,” Fitzgerald told reporters.
This is your last chance, superdelegates.
Hi Truth Teller,
I just wanted to be the 1st to comment. Never happened before.
Congratulations! This week’s First Comment prize is………
Lunch with Barack Obama or $5.00 cash. You pick.
What’s for lunch? Waffles and half a sausage?
PRICELESS! HAHAHAHAHA
Unless Rezko sings first, we will eat Obama’s lunch and DRINK. HIS. MILKSHAKE. on Nov. 4!
Hello, Deb. I enjoyed speaking with you this evening.
Fitzgerald should know politicians, just like crooks, have no morals.
especially when the politicians are crooks.
Fitzmas seems to be coming every two years now. Hopefully we will get more presents than we did last Fitzmas.
I’ve been a good boy. Haven’t bribed or extorted anyone in a while.
Please PatrickClaus, I’d love an Obama indictment for Fitzmas this year.
Very funny Mawm. Especially this part:
Frankly I’d like to have Fitzmas in June or July this year.
But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is accused of no wrongdoing and his name was barely mentioned at trial.
Actually Obama’s name came up more then you think…. they tried to keep most of it under raps because FitzGerald is building a case now against Blagojevich and Obama going after Rezko first…. Apparently there is alot of FBI material on the two men from moles that following their doings for several months during the Rezko investigation… So we’ll see if any indictments fall now before August on Obama! I think they can nail him on money laundering/kickbacks and illegal campaign issues…
I’m sure Larry will be debuting video of Obama and Blagojevich soon. Tomorrow by 9 a.m. in fact. LOL
I hear there’s a video of Rezko handing Obama a bag of cash in the pulpit of the Trinity United Church, which is handed over immediately to Louis Farrakhan.
It was the Kenwood mansion and “side lot” that Rezko with the help of his Middle Eastern co-conspirators gifted to MEEEchelle & Oblowme.
You people for the most part are clueless, but that was pretty funny. However, it wouldn’t suprise me in the least if the republicans don’t find something just as bad.
Did you all read Evelyn Pringle’s timely 6-part series on “Curtain time for Obama”? A lot of coincidences involving Obama. Would be very interesting how all this pans out.
Evelyn is awesome…very scrappy and ethical reporter! unlike the wackjobs on msnbc and cnn.
i wish she’d provide “cliff notes”. Her stuff is hard to wade through.
Yes it is … explains why it takes so long for Fitzgerald to build these cases.
She DID, go Rezko Watch!!!!!
If you have not read it you can find it here:
http://www.opednews.com/author/author58.html
It goes into lots of detail that shows exactly where the dirty money river flows in the Valleys of Obamaland.
Thanks for posting the link to Pringle’s series, JGDAW. I hadn’t read it.
BO is just a dirty Chicago pol. I feel sorry for the AAs that have been duped by him as the first AA to run for president. If indeed the MSM get around to doing their job, as Pringle says, it’s going to be UGLY.
I hope Hillary stays clear of BO. I don’t want her slimed by him.
Dirty lying SOB.
BO is not officially AA anyway. He’s only 1/12 AA. He’s 6/12 typical white person and 5/15 arabic.
can you say *BITCH SLAP*
Well, this will sure spice things up a bit!
Howie,donna and the rest of you are you still smirking?
obama just made a statement and said ” he’s not the tony rezko i knew “……yeah, right, just like every other controversial character in his dirty little life. come on grand jury, do your job and rid us of scumbag, barack hussein obama. obama/rezko 08
Remember Rezko hated it in jail, wearing someone elses underwear?
Yet today he does not pass go and goes directly to jail!
The man who can bring down Illinois’s political scene including forgetful Obama!
The Hospital Board appointments was directly Obama’s doing in the State Senate
Now could be the guy who Obama only saw once or twice a year as he recalls, will have the opportunity to sit in a room for years with the guy!
Mel,
Could you help me with the implications of why he went directly to jail?
Th articles in the Chicago Tribune indicate that he had been out on bail, and that bail was not revoked. The judge hasn’t even sentenced him yet. He voluntarily surrendered, and he really hated jail (complained about having to wear underware won by others). Maybe he sees this as the only way he makes it to sentencing alive, but I would think that if he were willing to deal, the Feds would offer him more comfortable surroundings.
I wonder if I can have his palatial home while he’s gone. No sense of letting it just sit there. I could have parties. And invite Kahlidi and Said and Alsammarae. And 3z’s. and Auchi. Oh hell, might as well throw the whole Hamas bunch in there. And we can sit around and listen to Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn read their Declaration of State of War and stuff. Maybe watch their old home movies of the places they ……um…..displaced.
ROFLMAO!
He feels safer in jail. lol
that’s was my thought. also they would move to protect him if he were working out an agreement with fitz. i keep wondering why the dim leadership are in such a rush and have been. stern letters don’t you know
If Rezko is given the choice to flip, will Fitz go after Obama? There is probably a lot that Rezko could testify to a la Obama. I know Evelyn Pringle says that the mansion could be the thing that brings Obama down.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00064.htm
Of all the illicit money Obama received out of the Chicago Combine, it makes me smile that the real estate deal for the mansion may be the real booby prize.
Nah, the house is small potatoes compared to Obama as a State Senator appointing Rezko’s picks to the Hospital Board.
The house will just be tax evasion over the money Obama never had for the $300 grand down payment Obama never had!
Both hold 20 yrs each in a new Obama home!
This all you got? Not a smidgen of evidence indicating any wrongdoing on Obama’s part. But I see where you’re coming from. Drowning men frequently clutch at straws.
This is too funny. Going down in flames.
Love the kicker in the AP story on Rezko verdict:
Nice drama in this story. This will give it legs and force the Anna Nicole networks to cover it. Check out this tawdry witness:
Is that common, with the IL combine?
I am sure Barry was at a few of those parties.
Lets just say he likes to make sure he plugs it for his business partners.
No. Sometimes they used scotch instead of vodka.
Even Patrick Fitzgerald didn’t get Scooter Libby to jail. Lying is okay. Perjury is okay. Bribery is okay. Extortion is okay. As long as you have friends in high enough places.
Maybe we disenfranchised and discarded voters could form a third party and get Patrick Fitzgerald to run as the Presidential candidate next election. No wheeling and dealing…just a candidate by popular acclamation…somebody with no favors to repay. What a refreshing idea.
Fitz got scooter, keep pretending you can handle this thing, really.
It’s not like you can understand strategy, anyway.
Catch on yet, “troll,” people think you’re stupid?
Rezko does not have a a president to commute his sentence yet. Scooter was convicted also. Fitz will proceed like in any other mob or terrorist case. Convict the first and most vulnerable fish, explain that he will serve a zillion years in a prison in Texas or Alabama and not in Illinois, and ask him if there is anything he would like to tell him before he sees the judge next. With Rezko convicted they will fall like dominoes. If Obama was part of the plan in the state legislature it will not take long to get to that level. The ultimate target was the governor.
furthermore i don’t think fitz cares if obama is the dem nominee or not. he is righteous about such things i have read.
no wrong doing ????how stupid are you,troll ?
There is evidence. It has not yet been discussed. And Obama still has not justified his shifting explanations regarding campaign contributions and the mansion purchase.
Democrats did not interrogate Obama, but Republicans will.
Barky shift an explanation? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Thank you for commenting, Deb. How are you?
Obama’s comments today:
“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.”
Oh. My. God.
This is exactly the Rezko he knew. Tons of info on the Rezko-Obama connection here:
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/
It’s getting really crowded under that bus!
The 1 million dollar reference, is it to U Chicago Hospital Obama gave money for?
Or ?
Obama had an earmark for the hospital where his wife works. The same hospital that gave her almost a 300% raise as soon as Barack was elected to the US Senate.
So Fitzgerald warning was indeed for those who are involved in the hospital funds that Obama gave U Chicago; wow…
Who else was involved on that? Anyone?
Very interesting comment from Fitzgerald…why would he say something like this?
Republican ad is already out!
Let me see now. It was not the Rev. Wright he knew, it was not the Father Phelger(Excuse the spelling)he knew and now it is not the Rezko he knew. I have no faith in the Democratic electorate anymore.
David Corse, don’t blame the electorate.
We’ve had Obama foisted on us by a very corrupt (but according to Bobby Jr. only 75% corrupt as opposed to the Republican 95% corrupt) Democratic establishment, and by the 100% corporate so-called Liberal media.
But it’s far from over. Far, far from over.
Sounds a lot like Bush’s “I don’t know the man” when the country was being Enronized by Kenny Lay. Get ready for 4 more years of not being able to recall stuff. Funny, how this guy is supposed to have such great judgement.
Dean, Brazile and Pesoli stage the fake open transparency RBC meetings last saturday!
Fitzgerald stages the timely downfall of the self proclaimed Democratic Party Presidental Nominee!
Rezko goes to jail to keep the deal making as transparent as the RBC!
You can’t even write a script on this!
Hope all those SD’s Obama promised and gave money to are feeling nice and relaxed right now, as Fritzgerald will follow the money…lol
obama just made a statement and said ” he’s not the tony rezko i knew “… Now where have we heard that before…..on wait it was every Bush aid and crony talking about Scott McClellan. Scottie wasn’t the Scottie they knew and loved either….
Is he brain damaged? Hangs around people for 20 years, but doesn’t know them.
They now enter the sentencing phase.
Up to 300 years?
Unless he delivers a big fish, for a reduced sentence.
Could be Blago. He was close to Obama and had dealings with him too.
Think he’ll want to do hard time?
Chirp…chirp…
Something about the relationship between those two, Blago and Obama, is fascinating.
It should be very interesting as they reveal, big change as I’ve had to sow sit, this week,(sort of like house sitting, but for my buddy’s pet pig, “Dr Shouter.”)
I’m looking forward to reading about the two of them in the coming days.
My God!!! OBAMA FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STEP DOWN. IF YOU STEP DOWN NOW, YOU CAN STILL SAVE YOURSELF. Go back to Chicago and shut up. For the love of the Democratic party and all things holy. STEP ASIDE!
Strawberry-I’m laughing and crying at the same time about your comment! If only NObama would step down! It’s been my vision, my dream, for months now…. that I would wake up one morning, go to work, and see a newspaper with the headlines….”OBAMA DROPS OUT!” I would be dancing in the street! AHO!
You’re right, you know, you just gave Obama the best advice.
But he won’t, and it will be worse for him, and them, because he won’t.
Like Tom Delay, he should just resign, and go back home, better to keep himself out of trouble, and out of sight.
I am laughing and crying too Strawberry. I hope we all wake up from this nightmare soon!
obama just made a statement and said ” he’s not the tony rezko i knew “… Now where have we heard that before…..oh wait it was every Bush aid and crony talking about Scott McClellan. Scottie wasn’t the Scottie they knew and loved either….
Once in jail, maybe he can run for inmate representative or monitor of the yard.Wonder if sexism will work for him there.
How soon would this get to Obama?
I have followed trials. Unless you stick with it, you probably don’t know the story.
I’ve actually listened to hours of testimony by lab technicians. *yikes!*
I will trust that this severe slap is warranted.
Man, Rezko is ending his life on a bad note eh?
But …
Maybe it is for the best. Maybe he’ll address whatever his own shit was about that nailed him.
Never know.
My car was fixed by a guy who had been in the pen 5 times. All about alcohol and drugs.
My little miata sparkled once he fixed it.
He’s stil in recovery today.
5 time loser.
He’s a complete gem.
Awwww AnninCA. Too crazy for the Huffington Post so now you come somewhere where you can be normal. You’re actually pretty docile compared to the rest of the wacko’s here.
And did I miss the warning somewhere you wackos? I didn’t hear a warning directed at Obama anywhere.
You’re right, you know, you just gave Obama the best advice.
But he won’t, and it will be worse for him, and them, because he won’t.
Like Tom Delay, he should just resign, and go back home, better to keep himself out of trouble, and out of sight.
But he won’t.
Please explain how this has anything to do with Obama. Maybe it’s all on the tape, or DVD or in a very scary imagination. What a bunch of total nitwits. Go vote for McCain, your 300 votes won’t matter one iota.
Now that’s very callous of you. In the GE, it’s winner-take-all so yeah, 300 votes can separate the winner and loser.
I thought I just flushed you away.
Hey Ralphie electricity back on in Palistine?
Depends on how much talking Rezko does and who in the picking order Fitzgerald wants to pick off first!
For Rezko to cut a deal, since being charged now, he can appeal the each charge and depending on Fitzgeralds mood, the Fitzgerald can not oppose Rezko’s appeals to some of the charges, so Rezko can end up with only a minor charge and jail based on what he and who he gives up.
Apeeals and challenges have to be filed in 30 days if memory is correct!
If Fitzgerald is targeting Obama, he better do it now before things get really screwed up later.
I’m just predicting BO attended a few of those “all day male only” drug parties…I’m telling you..I can feel it in my bones.
Its a good thing I renewed the lease on my popcorn concession here. We are only getting warmed up!
The trolls will be very busy spinning on their asses here and I will enjoy every moment of it.
Get your fresh buttered popcorn here!
So..when will the apologies start, if I may ask?
Even Michelle Malkin said the fuss about the supposed tape of Michelle Obama was ridiculous. She said apparently the line was “Why did he/Why’d he” not “whitey”.
Fitzgerald said nothing about Obama.
There is only one front runner and it’s not Clinton.
Just asking when these things might be cleared up.
Soon, we’ll leave you a note just incase you are tucked away in your bomb shelter over there in Palestine or your electricity is off again, ok?
Oh joy.. an Obama groupie. I find him rather repulsive… but I’m sure the cultmembers think he’s sexy.. why just ask the JOURNALISTS on his plane who were oohing and awing over his ass in jeans.
Never. Too much fun to keep it going.
Where’s the part where he issues the warning to Obama?
Yawn.
Ralphie sweetie, I can smell your flopsweat from here.
Phew…
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In this era of political obfuscation just how much corruption will it take to bring a politician down? The Bush administration set a very high bar for getting rid of deceit and dishonesty; assisted by a media that looked the other way and now goes to even greater heights to protect Obama from his own bad choices.
Rezko’s criminal conviction is connected to Obama in ways we haven’t even uncovered yet because our media consists of pundits instead of journalists. Too little too late to save our country from another Bush in Democratic attire.
GWB put our democracy on life support and now Obama has killed it with a Florida Fiasco repeat of 2000 and in spite of almost 18 MILLION citizens saying NO we’ve been ignored again.
Obama trolls can start apologizing immediately. But we won’t accept.
Wait…why should a Democrat apologize for wanting the truth told about the presumptive nominee - no matter who that person is?
And would asking for the truth make someone a “troll”? Where am I? Bush Bizarro World, where everything is backwards?
I admire Hillary Clinton. But it’s over. And the wild hyperbole about the unseen tape of Michelle Obama is the worst one, by far.
Can you read? R-E-Z-K-O, the tape will be icing on the cake,but it is not the current topic.What truth do you not understand? Maybe it can be spelled out for you. Can you say, “C-O-R-R-U-P-T P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N”
unless obama works the wheels to get fitzgerald off the case…you know, reach across the aisle to his repug buddies.
My friend Bubba with the Big Salami wanted me to ask you to tell Your Buddy Obama that Bubba says hello, and can’t wait to play hide and seek with him.
Does Obama mean the Rezko today that got convicted is different from the one he was meeting at night at Tony Rezko’s home (along with Illinois Gov. B) under surveill