(3) So, Rezko is singing about the Giannoulias family and its longtime “business dealings” in Chicago, which would interest someone like Fitzgerald and the Justice Department, who have had a long ambition to crack Soprano-style business dealings in Chicago (the city known for Al Capone hasn’t changed much, really). The next plate to drop in this will be Fitzgerald then leaning on the Giannoulias family to give up someone bigger than them, who Fitzgerald once discussed in terms of hoping “he has the morals to do the right thing”, to paraphrase. We now believe that person Fitz was talking about is Barack Obama.
(4) The Giannoulias family was involved with Obama as far back as his first state senate campaign in 1996. It has been long rumored here in Chicago that Obama obtained a sweetheart deal on his first town home here in Chicago — which he could not have afforded otherwise — and guess who the financing came from for that house? We’ve been told it was Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias bank. Now, this sets up a scenario where the Giannoulias family helps Obama with his campaign finances and gets him deeper in their pocket with his sweetheart mortgage deal (for the first home he owned that he could not afford) – all in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined later.
(5) One favor political Chicago claims Obama did for the Giannoulias family was in 2006 when, out of the blue, 29 year old Alexi Giannoulias, with no experience, and without ever having voted before, decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois. Also out of the blue, Barack Obama endorses Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer. This was a SHOCK to everyone in Chicago — and Giannoulias would have never become State Treasurer without Obama’s help. In political circles here, it has always been believed that this endorsement was bought years ago with that sweetheart mortgage deal Broadway Bank arranged for Obama to buy his town house.
Because he did not get the deal through ACORN. Oh yes, ACORN only protests banks.
Obama has never said where that loan came from, has he?
He won’t say which bank gave him the loan, only that there were “competitive” offers from more than one bank. Um, why so secretive about the bank?
Probably because it’s Broadway Bank, run by a Rezko “friend.”
MORE bad judgment? All of Obama’s alliances are relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama.
October 11, 2008 at 1:12 am
What would really be news is if you could find an Obama associate who isn’t a corrupt and/or crazy sleazebag.
October 11, 2008 at 4:57 am
No kidding. This guy hang with nothing but sleaze. What is it about Obama supporter that they cannot understand alliances? He chose to be with these people. He is not the village idiot. He is an educated adult. I am befuddled.
October 12, 2008 at 5:27 am
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