Obama supporter named in a corruption case
Posted on January 19th, 2008 by ecthompson
I’m a firm believer in preventing negative waves during a campaign. You just never know what the press is going to do with the information no matter how well you handle it. Barack Obama supporter Tony Rezko has been named in a corruption and fraud case. Obama is not accused of doing anything wrong. As a matter of fact he is not named in the indictment. More information about the federal indictment here.
I don’t think that this will be a big deal for Obama but like everything he will need to manage this very carefully.
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http://www.ontheleft.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8513
I just submitted this on ABC blog (none / 0)
Obama supporters, ask yourself these questions regarding Senator Obama:
Why did he get a cheaper price on his house? (While Rezko’s wife paid the full asking price for the land, Obama paid $300,000 under the asking price for the house. The house sold for $1,650,000 and the price Rezko’s wife paid for the land was $625,000.)
Why did he do business with a man he knew was under investigation by the FBI? (Rezko had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and the FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury in a case that prosecutors say involves bribes, kickbacks and “efforts to illegally obtain millions of dollars.” )
Why did he write letters for this same man to get government contracts?
“For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago’s South Side. It was just four years after the landlords — Antoin “Tony” Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru — had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.”
“But Obama’s ties with Rezko go beyond those two real estate sales and the political support, the Sun-Times found. Obama was an attorney with a small Chicago law firm — Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland — that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding to rehab 15 of their 30 apartment buildings for the poor.”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/35382 9,CST-NWS-rez23.article
I do understand wanting to defend your candidate but this is reality and we can’t afford to loss this election, and, my god, the country certainly can’t afford it. There are two other democratic candidates in this race who have a much greater chance of defeating the Republican nominee in the fall. Here’s another question you should ask yourself, what do you think the Republicans will do with this information pertaining to Senator Obama’s record?