How convicted influence peddler conspired with Obama Govenor Blogojevich and Univ of Chicago Hospital Board for millions in governement funding.
How Michelle Obama got her new job with them. and……..

How Michelle Obama received a 260% raise in one day to over $300,000 a year.

Rezko, Obama, and Chicago Corruption
by Abraham H. Miller
July 5, 2008
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science. He grew up in Chicago’s notorious 24th Ward, and he is author of a recent work of Chicago-based fiction, ‘Vorshavsky: A Chicago Story.’
If Tony Rezko were young, blonde and disappeared on a Caribbean Island, Greta Van Sustern would have been all over the Rezko trial. And that very particular Chicago definition of ‘clout’ would have been ingrained in everyone’s lexicon.
But Tony (Antoin) Rezko is simply another middle-aged, bald, Chicago developer who was involved in an influence peddling and kick-back scheme that was connected to a number of politicians, a couple of pension funds, an Iraqi businessman (prepared to upfront millions for bail) and, oh yes, Senator Barack Obama. A jury hit Tony with a conviction on sixteen felony counts out of twenty four in the indictment.
Corruption, at least corruption old-fashioned Chicago style, is par for the city’s political culture. Unlike corruption in other cities, Chicago corruption usually trickled down to the little guy. The myth is that everyone benefited. Of course, some people benefited a lot more than others.
And Chicago corruption was always underscored by a nice dose of reality. When one prominent politician was asked about directing the city’s insurance business to his relatives, he gave a resoundingly uncomplicated answer: Why would anyone bother to go into politics, if he couldn’t throw a little business to his loved ones.
We Chicagoans can resonate to the crisp truthfulness of the response.
Unlike academia where the corruption is so intense, the stakes are so small, and the justifications truly Kafkaesque, the guy on the right side of the take in Chicago could, well, like Tony Rezko, buy a great mansion in fashionable Wilmette, or like Barack Obama get a real discount on a mansion in trendy and liberal Hyde Park-Kenwood.
No further rationale would be required.
Since 1972, on average two Chicago politicians per year have been convicted of felonies. In 1991, when not one Chicago Alderman was convicted or even indicted, the Sun-Times ran that deviant event as a front-page story.
Michelle Obama spent just three years at the Chicago Law Firm of Sidley Austin, where she met Bernadine Dorn (the convicted bomber wife of William Ayers) far less than a typical associate on the career path to be partner. In a move incongruous with the alleged iconic credentials that are a mainstay of the Michelle hagiography, she took a job with the Democratic machine.
Probably some people think you leave a high- powered, prestigious law firm like Sidley Austin to take a job with the Chicago machine to save the world. But no one who knows how Chicago works is going to buy that!
Michelle was subsequently hired by the University of Chicago, ultimately ending up as the University of Chicago Hospital’s Vice President for External Affairs. Barack was chair of the Illinois Senate’s powerful Health and Human Services Committee, the position tied by some to the Rezko scandal.
If you don’t get the picture, you are definitely not from Chicago.
In 2007 the not-for-profit University of Chicago hospital turned out a profit of 143 million, and is up 118 million for 2008. The hospital is scheduled to receive a 30 million infusion from Medicaid, and will be turning some of its Medicaid patients to another hospital to free up space for its private insurance paying patients. According to the (London ) Daily Mail (online), in 2006 the hospital turned away an indigent man, who died.
When Michelle exhorts young people to turn down the profit system and do something meaningful with their lives, apparently this is not the example she means to convey.
A couple of months after her husband was sworn in as U.S. Senator, Michelle’s salary at the Medical Center was raised from $121,910 to $316,962.

It appears that Barack Obama, allegedly decent guy and agent of “change” in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the hospital where his wife works.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a Vice President for Community Affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.

Do you know of anyone that has ever gotten a 260% raise?

Now, I know that there are lots of ways to talk about transactions like this involving public officials — quid pro quo, etc., but I prefer to just say that we’re dealing with good, old fashioned, public corruption here.
Now you might ask what does a community relations director at a university do? That’s really a naive question. The question is who does the community relation’s director know?
The answer became apparent when Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate and Michelle’s salary more than doubled.
Barack and Michelle were a power couple hooked into the Democratic machine. Tony Rezko cultivated them, the Chicago Way. When the Obamas bought their mansion in trendy Hyde Park-Kenwood, Mrs. Rezko bought the lot next door for asking price in a coordinated deal from the same seller. The Obamas got their house at a discount. Mrs. Rezko paid full price. Later, Mrs. Rezko sold part of the lot to the Obamas to expand their back yard.
What Rezko wanted from Obama became apparent later.
To understand the genius of Rezko, you need to understand that for generations, corruption in Chicago was partisan specific. As my mother used to say when she split her ticket, ‘You need some Republicans. Then the machine can’t steal as much.’
But then came the Chicago Combine: bipartisan corruption you could believe in. Rezko established a typical Chicago ‘pay for play’ scheme, but one that crossed party lines. You want to build a hospital, you had to pay Rezko, who paid the appropriate people who could help you play. The problem that Rezko faced was the hospital board had fifteen members and that is a lot of people to bribe and a lot of loose ends. But then Rezko had a friend who chaired the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
Enter State Senator Barack Obama, who is credited as the moving force behind a piece of bipartisan legislation (Il. Senate Bill 1332) that reduced the hospital board to nine people, to be appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich (know as Governor ‘Blago’) with advice and consent of the Illinois Senate.
Blago immediately appointed three physicians, Rezko cronies with similar Middle Eastern backgrounds, all of whom were coincidentally big contributors to Barack Obama. As they say downtown, Barack knows how to walk the Chicago Way. Rezko became the guy you saw if you wanted to build a health care facility. He controlled the board’s votes.
The three appointed physicians have been convicted in the Federal probe and are rumored to be about ready to sing.

Patricia Blagojevich, the governor’s wife, is next in line for an indictment. The Chicago press is now 24/7 on active ‘Patti Watch.’

For his part, Rezko just sent a ‘I will not rat out my pals letter,’ to United States District Judge Amy St. Eve. Veteran observers of the Chicago crime scene note that the guys who don’t sing, don’t write letters. They just clam up. You write a letter because you want the other guys to be reminded to take care of your wife and kids’college is expensive.

So, what else does Rezko expect, a presidential pardon, ala Bill Clinton and Carlos Vignali, the dope dealer Clinton’s brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, represented?
So, here’s the deal. If you don’t want a president making it in the alcove near the Oval Office, don’t elect a guy with a history as a rake and a swordsman. If you don’t want a president who can’t negotiate with the majority of his own party, don’t elect a backwoods, Southern governor with a Jesus complex. If you don’t want a president who orders the break in of the opposition, don’t elect a guy whose career was saturated by paranoia.

And if you want to make sure that the White House is not going to be tainted by corruption, don’t elect a president who grew up in the Chicago political system and whose wife thinks that the country owes her some palliative to eliminate her sense of personal shame. Because unlike the stock market, when it comes to human behavior, past performance really is indicative of future results.

Prosecutors talking to Rezko, seek to delay sentencing
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October 7, 2008

BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter nkorecki@suntimes.com
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to indefinitely postpone Tony Rezko’s scheduled Oct. 28 sentencing on corruption charges, acknowledging they are engaged in talks with the former top political fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Blagojevich and others “that could affect . . . sentencing.”
The Chicago Sun-Times first reported in August that Rezko might be cooperating with prosecutors. Since then, the talks, and the prosecution’s efforts to confirm information Rezko has provided, have been an open secret. In September, sources close to the investigation confirmed the talks to the Sun-Times but said there was no deal with Rezko.
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In court filings, prosecutors said they are in discussions with Tony Rezko, who was convicted of corruption charges.
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The 53-year-old Wilmette businessman, who at one time was a top adviser to Blagojevich, was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption tied to state deals. He could face a lengthy prison term and still faces two more criminal trials.
Several criminal-defense lawyers, who spoke to the Sun-Times only on the condition they not be named, said prosecutors have asked to interview or reinterview their clients about allegations that Blagojevich’s campaign took contributions in exchange for state contracts or appointments. One lawyer said prosecutors told him they sought the interview in response to new information provided by Rezko.
On Sunday, the Sun-Times reported the FBI has interviewed witnesses about a rehab project at the governor’s home that was done by a Rezko-owned contractor.
Federal authorities also have been reviewing real estate dealings involving Blagojevich’s wife Patti, who works in real estate, and campaign contributors including Rezko.
A U.S. attorney’s office spokesman would not comment Monday. Rezko’s lawyers could not be reached.
If a judge agrees to delay Rezko’s sentencing, it could be good news for Democratic presidential nominee Obama because the former Obama friend and fund-raiser was set to be sentenced just days before the Nov. 4 election.
Rezko… Blagojevich… Obama?
Friday, September 26, 2008
WJBC/1230 is reporting:
Could Illinois Governor Blagojevich suffer the same fate as convicted former Governor George Ryan? Sources tell CBS 2 News Chicago that Federal agents claim to have enough evidence to indict Blagojevich on fraud and conspiracy charges. However, the report says the investigators aren’t the ones who make the decision to prosecute. That would be up to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the Justice Department in Washington.
This set of charges is, essentially, based on testimony taken at the trial of Tony Rezko. Rezko, Blagojevich, Obama, are all names that keep coming up in that trial. Blagojevich,is an Obama supporter, of course, but more than this… the two apparently have had a working relationship as close as that between Obama and confessed bomber William Ayers.
And of course the mainstream is not paying attention to this story. Gee, I can’t think of why they wouldn’t, huh? Perhaps they’re afraid of what they’ll find?
Personally, I’m waiting for Obama to make the now hackneyed statement that this is not the Blagojevich he thought he knew.

Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama “bundlers,” fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Washington. Nearly three dozen of the bundlers have raised more than $500,000 each, including more than a half-dozen who have passed the $1 million mark and one or two who have exceeded $2 million, according to interviews with fund-raisers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/us/politics/06bundlers.html?scp=67&sq=Obama%20Donors%20Wall%20Street&st=cse

I just read Obama’s plan and he has no solution for this mess:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/economyplan

He sucks up the money from Fannie Mae, Citigroup, who lobbied heavily against Glass-Steagall, and other top financial institutions. Fat chance he’d do what’s badly needed because he’s in their pockets and their cash is in his.

Regardless, for McCain-Palin to win, the focus must shift away from issues and back onto “ugly frogs”, i.e. irrelevant fluff and garbage. In particularly, it needs to return to personality, where McCain is a war hero and Palin is a tenacious soccer/hockey mom, and Obama is an arrogant celebrity race-baiter.

Maybe. You might be right, God willing. The markets have almost fully recovered due to worldwide efforts to shore up the financial giants that are not in deep shit. At the moment, there’s a 400+ point recovery in the DOW.

Of course, if an “October surprise” emerges on The One, then He has no hope–not a snowball’s chance in Hell.

BRZEZINSKI: OBAMA’S GLOBALIST “RASPUTIN”

By Patrick Briley
September 16, 2008

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Zbigniew Brzezinski is Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor. Brzezenski was the national security advisor for President Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1988 he endorsed HW Bush for President and was Co-Chair of the HW Bush national security advisory task force. From 1987 to 1989 he also served on the HW Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright was a student of Brzezenski.. GW Bush Secretary of State, Condi Rice (also a former national security advisor), who studied under Albright’s father, shares many of the same world government views with Brzezinski and Albright.

Geeze, I don’t why everyone here is trashing anyone and everyone is supporting Obama as “Judas”. The Judases are those turn coats who supported Obama BEFORE Hillary dropped out. The Hillary supporters who reversed to support Obama–AFTER Hillary dropped out, are NOT just selfishly thinking of their own careers within the Democratic Party. NO. They also need to kept their street cred with Obama’s supporters: HOW THE FUCK IS HILLARY AND HER SUPPORTERS GOING TO WOO THE BOTS IN 2012 OR 2016 IF THEY DON’T PLAY BALL IN 2008?!? This isn’t rocket science. This is how politics has always works. You scratch my back, I scratch yours.

For me the Judases are those who switched to support Obama BEFORE Hillary dropped out. The worse of them all of course were the big wig Obamacrats, Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Brazille, etc.

This is our great challenge.
Today we face enemies abroad and financial messes within.
We must be one nation and look to a leader who has a steady hand. WHo seeks the advice in humility, not with a preordained answer.

We can be like the “Greatest Generation” and solve this. We are without question the most innovative people on the planet.
We are the most generous people ever to grace the planet. We have made the most innovation for human good.

This is one more challenge for us, shall we rise to the occasion with John McCain or shall we roll over like Barack Obama has asked us to do in Iraq and now? This is not to hard for AMERICANS.

These Colors NEVER RUN!