During Senator Barack Obama's 12 years in the Illinois Senate he received nearly THREE times more campaign cash from the indicted and convicted businessman Tony Rezko and associates than he publicly acknowledged - which is par for the course for Barack Obama. The Liar-in-Chief has a long record of stretching the truth. The information was uncovered by the Chicago Sun Times (by reporters Chris Fusco and Tim Novak). This information was not widely known outside of Chicago. No one was willing to tell the whole truth about Obama or his Syrian friend Rezko nor were they forthcoming about his other ties to Arab money and influence. What happened next? He won by hook and by crook in the caucuses and the chicanery of ACORN which found no lie to small to tell for Barack Hussein Obama. It has all be covered before so it doesn't need a rehash here.
Think about those tenants in the Englewood government subsidized housing on Chicago's South Side just four years after slum landlords Tony Rezko and his partner, Daniel Mahru rehabilitated the 31 buildings financed by Chicago taxpayers. It is 1997 and it is an absolute brutal winter. It is bone chilling cold. They are shivering without heat in their apartments because it doesn't work.
Rezko and Mahru let them freeze. When Obama is asked about his friend's apartments and why Rezko and partner would not turn the heat back on, he says he does not remember. Eleven of Rezko's buildings in disrepair and distress were in Obama's state Senate district. (Sun-Times/AP)
These are not Rezmar Corp's only low income projects - which fell into disrepair in spite of government funding. And Obama should have known more than he did since he was also the recipient of campaign cash from Rezko. Barack Obama was a newly elected state senator and his district included the unheated building. Rezko, who has been friends with Obama for 17 years (they didn't just meet), contributed to Barack Obama and later made it possible for Obama to purchase a larger lot with his $1.6 million mansion.
Obama worked for the Davis Miner law firm which represented Rezko helping him to get millions of dollars from the government for his buildings. Rezko hosted fund raisers in his home for Obama and other patrons, including Gov. Blagojevich - from whom he demanded kickbacks. So what did he want and get from Obama in return for his favors. Did Obama simply look the other way since 11 of these buildings were in Obama's district?
Rezko, who received government funding for his low income housing, in need of repairs and unheated, and today Rezko is an indicted political fund raiser who since this week is sitting in jail. He has been indicted for allegedly demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Governor Blagojevich.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported: "Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko's low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers." (Tim Novak, Chicago Sun Times - "Obama and his Rezko ties" - April 23, 2007)
"The building in Englewood was one of 30 Rezmar rehabbed in a series of troubled deals largely financed by taxpayers. Every project ran into financial difficulty. More than half went into foreclosure, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found." (Novak)
As pointed out in the investigative report, a former city official, said: "Their buildings were falling apart. They just didn't pay attention to the condition of these buildings." (Novak)
There is also the not so small matter of the $1.6 million dollar mansion.
"Much of the criticism has centered on two real estate deals involving Obama's South Side mansion. In the first, Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price for a doctor's home, while Rezko's wife paid the doctor full price for the vacant lot next door. Then -- a few months before Rezko was indicted -- Obama bought part of that lot from Rezko's wife." (Novak)
"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." (Novak)
"Rezko and Mahru had no construction experience when they created Rezmar in 1989 to rehabilitate apartments for the poor under the Daley administration. Between 1989 and 1998, Rezmar made deals to rehab 30 buildings, a total of 1,025 apartments. The last 15 buildings involved Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland during Obama's time with the firm." (Novak)
"Rezko and Mahru also managed the buildings, which were supposed to provide homes for poor people for 30 years. Every one of the projects ran into trouble: ... Seventeen buildings -- many beset with code violations, including a lack of heat -- ended up in foreclosure. ...Six buildings are currently boarded up.. ..Hundreds of the apartments are vacant, in need of major repairs. ...Taxpayers have been stuck with millions in unpaid loans. ...At least a dozen times, the city of Chicago sued Rezmar for failure to heat buildings." (Novak)
Obama's campaign staff now acknowledges that Obama did indeed work on these where previously Barack Obama denied much of an involvement - and in his debate with Hillary when she accused him of representing Rezko, Obama said, he only billed Rezko for 5 hours of work. Well, of course he did. He had to show something, didn't he. After all, the consideration was far more than five hours worth of legal work. There was the little matter of the million dollar mansion and the extra lot and the campaign contributions and private parties. Hillary is playing the game, but she knows he lied.
What do lawyers do? They lie. He doesn't remember. That is convenient but the truth is he doesn't have to remember. The facts can be checked and there is sufficient evidence to implicate obama in far more than a mere casual relationship with Rezko. YET, he came off clean as a whistle. If you don't find that sickening, nothing will turn your stomach. Obama appears to still be getting away with scamming all of us.
In fact the relationship goes back 17 years. "...Obama had just become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Newspapers wrote about him. One story caught the eye of David Brint, a vice president of Rezmar, a new company that had become the Daley administration's favored developer of low-income housing."
Obama was offered a job. He says he didn't take it. Instead he returned to Chicago and worked on a voter-registration drive in 1992. Then he was hired by the law firm which represented Rezko, Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, which specialized in government subsidies for low-income housing. Whether this was an arrangement worked out in advance, we don't know, but it does seem reasonable to assume it was. Otherwise, it was just too convenient that he should now be working for the firm which handed Rezko's work, which had offered Obama a job.
The Sun Times report says, "The firm's top partner, Allison S. Davis, was, and is, a member of the Chicago Plan Commission, appointed by Mayor Daley. Davis was also a friend of Rezko. Davis and Rezko would eventually go into business together, developing homes." (Novak)
It was also convenient that Judson Miner, the other law firm partner was the legal administrator for Chicago's Law Department under Mayor Harold Washington. When Novak asked Judson Miner for a list of the cases Obama worked on, he said he would provide them but never did. Is it surprising that he would not want to?
Meanwhile as Obama prepared for bigger and better things, it was necessary to build a persona which would be appropriate for an up and coming politician and to leave all the dark shadows outside and skeletons locked away in the closet. Getting that information is like getting reliable information on George W. Bush's time in the National Guard. In Obama's book(s) (there are two of them now), he tells about how he worked to improve conditions in poor neighborhoods. He doesn't mention those people who are freezing in Resko's slum housing.
In biographical information Obama submitted to the Sun-Times in 1998, he says he specialized "in civil rights litigation, real estate financing, acquisition, construction and/or redevelopment of low-and moderate income housing..." And along the way he amassed enough to buy that $1.6 million dollar mansion.
"Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s."
"Tony was one of the biggest fund-raisers."
AND Rezko has helped to raised millions more. "Rezko was among the people Obama appointed to serve on his U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, the Sun-Times reported in 2003. The committee raised more than $14 million, according to Federal Election Commission records, helping send Obama to Washington in 2004." (Novak)
"...Obama bought a mansion on the South Side, in the Kenwood neighborhood, from a doctor. On the same day, Rezko's wife, Rita Rezko, bought the vacant lot next door from the same seller. The doctor had listed the properties for sale together. He sold the house to Obama for $300,000 below the asking price. The doctor got his asking price on the lot from Rezko's wife." (Novak)
Hank RothDoes this really seem like a casual relationship to you? It would be far fetched to think so. - It looks a lot more like a plan. And this one has been in the making for 17 years.
What do lawyers do? They lie. He doesn't remember.
Does this really seem like a casual relationship to you?
Much of this was written before the election for all the good it did (I've updated some of it). See the TheCrypt for other articles. Read how the election was a charade. Obama didn't win anything. He was annointed by the left which is beginning to regret it - and over 96% of the blacks who wanted a different color in the oval office. They are also not seeing their hopes realized. The only change is more of the same. But we haven't seen anything yet. I dread the future. He is not what he claims to be. When the truth is finally told it may be too late to put things back and save us all.
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