Bye Bye Blago.
Gov of Ill. arrested for corruption, another close buddy of you know who
by Gregor 254 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
Vaya con Dios, Obama.
Tee hee hee.
Sylvia
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purplesofa
Blago still reminds me of Robert Blake
Must be the hair.
they are both wacky.
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Big Tex
And both are criminals.
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B-Rock
By February 2006, businessman and political fixer Tony Rezko was already politically radioactive, caught up in a federal investigation that would see him criminally charged by the end of that year.
News reports had linked Rezko, a key adviser and campaign fund-raiser for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to shady deals involving state pension funds -- among the crimes that ultimately would send him to prison.
This was the Tony Rezko who, looking for millions of dollars for a massive South Loop development, turned to Broadway Bank, owned by the family of Alexi Giannoulias. Giannoulias, the Democrat now running for U.S. Senate, had left his post as a senior loan officer at the Chicago bank in late 2005 to mount a successful campaign for Illinois state treasurer, though he still held an ownership stake in the bank.
Rezko's company asked. And Broadway Bank came through.
On Feb. 14, 2006, newly obtained records show, the bank made a $22.75 million loan to a company called Riverside District Development LLC, whose owners, it turns out, included Rezko.
Later this week, Obama will host a fundraiser for Giannoulias in Chicago.
