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- Posted by Martin on March 3rd, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Martin
I wonder how fawning the adulation for Patrick Fitzgerald will be when Tony Rezko goes to the big house, with his filthy fingerprints all over Obama’s career.
Obama bought a mock Georgian mansion on Chicago’s south side on June 15, 2005, the same day Rezko’s wife bought a plot next door from the same seller. Obama then purchased from Rezko another parcel at above-market value. Federal prosecutors recently revealed that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire who lives in London, wired $3.5 million to the financially strapped Rezko in Chicago less than a month before the Obama-Rezko purchases. James Bone, investigative reporter for the Times of London, wrote last Tuesday that “the money transfer raises the question of whether funds” from Auchi “helped” Obama buy his house.
You’ve got to love this little sleeper - Saddam Hussein’s name crops up alongside Auchi’s, which surely will generate lots of one-liner material for John McCain, and might even derail Obamessiah’s candidacy (I’m not banking on it, the MSM are not going to let one drop of slime land on their boy).
But the case against Rezko prepared by the always determined U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald poses possible new pitfalls for the Democratic front-runner by introducing into the proceedings Auchi, who has been convicted on corruption charges in France and given a suspended sentence. While his friends describe Auchi and his family as victims of Saddam Hussein’s tyranny, Pentagon sources call him a “bagman” who laundered money in London for the Iraqi dictator.
Bagman, indeed.
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