Breaking Story: Prosecutor Fitzgerald Could Send Obama To Jail
Posted on October 12, 2008
URGENT: Big story about to break, we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
Hat tip to Norman Hooben
Oct 10, ‘08
by Becki for group libertyrepublican
The Sun Times today gave a major clue that Barack Obama will indeed go down with Tony Rezko, sooner rather than later. It looks as though Rezko is about to turn on Alexi Giannoulias, the 30-year old State Treasurer of Illinois (who was elected only because Obama backed him).
Here’s where all the clues are…and then we’ll walk you through the local Chicago politics on how today’s hint by the Sun Times has us convinced, for the first time ever, that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could indeed send Barack Obama to jail.
We need to repeat that: we never believed, until now, that Obama would go to jail for anything related to Rezko. Today, this breaking news about what Rezko is singing to the Feds about makes us reconsider all of that.
Barack Obama will serve a prison sentence in the next few years — because knowing Fitzgerald, there is no reason he would be going through all of this if that was not the targeted goal in the long term.
(1) Michael Sneed in her Sun Times column 10/10/08 had the following tidbit:
Sneed hears rumbles political fund-raiser/fixer Tony Rezko, who is now singing sweetly to the feds from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been talking about his “dealings” with a Chicago bank, which has political connections.
(2) We just spoke with someone well-connected in Chicago politics who told us that the bank Sneed is talking about has to be Broadway Bank, which is owned by the politically-connected Giannoulias family. We were told that Sneed’s column confirms rumblings people we know heard independently that Tony Rezko is giving up the Giannoulias family to Patrick Fitzgerald — Rezko and the Giannoulias family are as close and tied together as anyone in Chicago could be. If Rezko is turning on them, then Rezko is going to give up Governor Rod Blagojevich and Obama too.
We don’t want to end up in cement shoes for implying anything here, but if you live in Chicago for any length of time, you hear rumors about Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family, and insert Tony Soprano references here. Kapeech?
(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.
(6) So, the Tony Rezko sweetheart deal was not the first magic home loan Obama ever received to buy a house he could not afford.
There’s more to this that looks like it will break soon. We were STUNNED when we read Sneed’s column because we never in a million years believed Fitz would actually be able to take down Obama.
We do not believe this will come out before the election, however, but we do believe Fitzgerald will continue his prosecution to the highest level, because that is what he does. Jean Valjean got off easy, compared to what it’s like to be in the crosshairs of perhaps the greatest prosecutor this nation has had in a generation. Patrick Fitzgerald is a force of nature.
Sneed’s clue can only mean Broadway Bank…we’ve now heard this from several people in Chicago. And Broadway Bank can only mean Giannoulias. And Giannoulias leads to Obama through that town house home loan and the quid pro quo political endorsement several years later. And that home loan ties back to Rezko, in that it was the first of two shady home buys Obama made with quid pro quos attached to them.
Just thinking that last paragraph out, Obama’s defense in the Rezko business was that he never did anything for Rezko so there was no quid pro quo. What the Giannoulias and Broadway Bank stuff proves is that Obama sits in people’s pockets for a while before the favor is given. He bought that town house sometime between 1997-2000 or so, since he lived there for a few years before trading up to the Obama Mansion with Rezko’s help in 2005, after he was in the United States Senate. And it looks like the payback was not given to the Giannoulias family until 2006, with Obama’s endorsement of Alexi Giannoulias for State Treasurer.
This all stems from Sneed’s clue in today’s Sun Times. She says to stay tuned for more, so please do that.
Postscript: For a superb clarification of this case read Puma Pundit
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Oh please. Never gonna happen. This story has been kicking around forever.
Why do we suspect that a twenty-something Giannoulias scion as Illinois State Treasurer might provide, ah, opportunities for transfer of public monies to more politically deserving coffers?
As a generation older, we doubt that the Hon. Barrack Hussein Obama/Soetoro had more than a passing acquaintance with young Alexi [odd given name; could it reflect a strain of Italian anarchism as well as Capone genomics in the Giannoulias family?]. And absent a corrupt political machine, would Alexi fils ever have attained Illinois State office at an age when his contemporaries remained cocooned in 10-foot corporate cubicles?
After stringing out Plamegate for years, when a Maryland traffic magistrate would have dismissed politicized accusations against Scooter Libby before coffee break, Patrick Fitzgerald’s reputation is that of a time-serving partisan hack. Discrediting Obama via Rezko may make partial amends, but given Fitzgerald’s previous raindance before Chucky Shumer et al., we’re entitled to a note of skepticism.
So we are supposed to jump onboard with the idea of some kind of Right-Wing Fitz-mas??
Do you believe that Fitz will frog-march the Obamessiah out of the White House in handcuffs?? Really??
This article reads well, but it still boils down to nothing more than speculation about what might be. I’ll believe it when I see it, and not before.
If Obama makes it to the White House with a Democrat Congress, all this disappears down George Orwell’s memory hole. The best that can happen between now and the election to prevent this Marxist thug’s takeover of the U.S. government is enough publicity to swing undecided voters to McCain-Palen. Since the print and TV media will never mention anything negative about their Great Socialist Hope, we guess this story, like all the others, is blowin’ in the wind.
I’m skeptical about your reporting, because you should be more informed on the issue of what Obama “did for” Rezko. What about the 2003 board legislation, in which Obama and Rezko worked hand in glove?
It is the PATTERN of appropriations/legislation, contracts and kickbacks which links Obama and Rezko and will convict Obama. Sure, the Bank story may be another quid pro quo. Sure, add another charge to the indictment.
But the real story is Obama (as well as Blago) being functioning members of the pay to pay scheme.
If you want to see it at work, just look at Evelyn Pringle’s wonderfully detailed “Curtain Time” articles at opednews.com.
Indeed, probably the townhouse deal is only one of many exchanges Obama and this family were engaged in. And if the details are now being spilled you will see the same case being made: the PATTERN of actions taken by Obama on behalf of the family, which are then responded to with campaign contributions or other benefits.
Remember the section of the law we are dealing with here: 18 USC 1346. It’s the law Rezko was convicted under, and it will form the indictment against Obama.
Actually, I think this indictment will come before the election.
Appreciate your thoughts, and hope you’re right. It seems to us that our country is at vital crossroad. Take the left fork, and we forfeit our future, probably permanently. McCain seems clueless in this great crisis., but anything is better than this Democrat skunk. At least with McCain there’ll be another election in 2012.
***Come back and post when you sober up!***
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck, but it isn’t going to happen. Receiving a favor from somebody, and doing a favor for somebody else in the same family years later, would pretty easily be explained away as simply a friendship. He can say he just supported the young Giannoulias because they were friends. I think you’re allowed to support your friends. It’s a scandal that might cost some votes, but I doubt there’ll ever be a conviction.
I am a Democrat, and sad to say the Democratic Party of thugs will never let it happen. They have the money in their pockets now, and it seems anyone can be bought off. Sad to say, the same mentality of ignorance and rationalizations for allowing corruptions will elect Obama and it will too be to late.
“Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., and Senator Barack Obama were featured in a radio advertisement endorsing Alexander Giannoulias, a non-federal candidate for Illinois State Treasurer”
http://www.fec.gov/press/press2007/20070213mur.html
This article almost has as much substance as McCain’s economic policies.
Hahahaha …. now let’s see you fit this twisted, tortured and completely unsubstantiated nonsense into a 30 second ad!
Yeah that’ll do it!
It is shocking to read how many think nothing of a man running for President associating with Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Kwami Kilpatrick and Odinga of Kenya. They seem to think having a convicted felon as Obama’s financial banker is ok too. Is there no sense of moral outrage at criminal activities today? This must be investigated or everyone should get a free pass on breaking the law!
Ah Yeah this is believable… If Fitzgerald couldn’t do anything to Cheney for Plame Gate and was only able to nail the sacrificial lamb Libby for it, what makes you think innuendo about favors for a house purchase is going to go anywhere… Get Real!!!
Just face it folks, the free world is over. The controllers are laughing their [edited] off because they love it when we post on an internet forum. They know that it’s just enough to keep us out of the streets with pitchforks and torches, when we make these posts that mean nothing and do nothing.
Your insertion of the Sun Times Header at the top of this editorial falsely attributes this article to that paper. You should remove the Sun Times Image from this article. I won’t even bother pointing out your obvious naivete and ignorance. Thanks anyway. Go back to work.
To Bob Evans – Before attacking someone’s integrity it might be smart to check your facts. I used the Sun Times header because that is the way the article appears in the Chicago Sun Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/blogentries/index.html?bbPostId=Cz8neME9DYOr5Cz34JXBtDpWXHCzEMVI4spqIGIBzncutaTeAh9
To suggest that I would falsely use the banner of a newspaper without even bothering to check it out says something about your naivete and ignorance, doesn’t it? To date, Radarsite has had 44 articles published by the Chicago Sun Times Group.
Thanks anyway. Now go back to work.
Please do not give me the false hope that Obama will be indicted. We get enough of the false hope c**p from the king of hype: Obama. Oh yeh, the CHANGE thing too! Chicago say hello to Karl Marx for me. I know he is alive and well there!
What I see:
If Barack Obama is sworn in, America will change. A bona fide neo-Marxist will be in charge. His red comrades in the Congress and in the states will side with him. Other Democrats will become very ill at ease.
As for any federal prosecutor attempting to investigate President Obama, I would fear for his career, if not his life.
More:
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/rezko-piecing-together-ayers-giannoulias-obama%2C1866/
Boiling down a complex blog entry by P.U.M.A. punding, Tony Rezko used Alexi Giannoulias bank to float $450,000 in bad checks, while campaigning for Alexi’s brother Demetris to be placed on the Illinois Finance Authority Board.
Demetris Giannoulias was on the Board at the Crossroads Fund, a Chicago Based left wing organzation supported by Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Barack Obama, which made grants to such stellar organizations as ACORN and other affordable housing swindlers.
In 2002, Rezko borrowed $10.5 Million from Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family bank, the same bank where Barack Obama kept his Senate campaign funds. In 2006, Sen. Obama endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for Illinois State Treasurer, and gives Sec. Giannoulias a slot to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
Glad to see all these upstanding folks able to work so well together, too bad that Rezko doesn’t want to serve time, and holds quite a bit of information about the Chicago Political Establishment that may be interesting to the Feds.
RNC: Obama’s House of Cards
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS154444+24-Jun-2008+PRN20080624
“Who Owned Obama’s (town house) Home And Who Paid His Taxes?”
(Links to records, deeds etc… found below)
http://gabriellecusumano.blogtownhall.com/2008/10/11/%E2%80%9Cwho_owned_obama%E2%80%99s_home_and_who_paid_his_taxes%E2%80%9D__1993-1997.thtml
The demacrats have been operating like this for 70 years what makes you think this is somthing new.
To: Bob Evans on October 13th, 2008 3:53 pm Your insertion of the Sun Times Header at the top of this editorial falsely attributes this article to that paper. You should remove the Sun Times Image from this article. I won’t even bother pointing out your obvious naivete and ignorance. Thanks anyway. Go back to work.
Just what do you mean, “Go back to work.” I happened to read hundreds of pages by this author…”He’s always working!” As for the Sun Times misinterpretation, may I suggest you go back to work…YOUR HOMEWORK!
Thank you Norm. Did you notice “Bob Evans’” apology in this comments thread for calling me a liar? No? I didn’t see it either. Typical.
See actual footage of Clinton Administration ADMITTING their role in the financial collapse in this Youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
Or Search Youtube for: “How the Democrats Caused the Financial Crisis”
Hint: Democrats bragged they forced banks to accept NINJA loans. (No income, no job, no assets) They rigged the nationalization of the banks and they and the media blame the republicans!
McCain wrote a bill the democrats killed that would have prevented the democrat-caused financial meltdown.
Don’t believe me?
Follow the link above and hear the words from the mouths of the democrats themselves.
Don’t let America become the Obama-nation of Desolation!
You people make me laugh. All the partisan bickering. They both have issues. You don’t get to run for President unless you have help. And that goes for Obama and McCain too! Look up McCain’s family connections with the mob in Arizona. Look at Obama in Chicago. We will never see a “clean” candidate. Not Palin, not Biden. No-one.
well, what can I say, there are a lot of people in my neighbouhood. hehe…..
Nice try…educated people who do their research can see through this crap. Why am I having trouble finding this “breaking story” on CNN? Or in a legitimate independent news source? Beacsue this stuff has been investigated and researched for over 20 months and they come up w/NOTHING. It’s called “guilt by associatiob”. And it’s a pretty casual association to start with. Stop spreading outright lies, half truths and accept the fact that this is a honorable man who will be our next president. For those of you who spread this shameful garbage, SHAME ON YOU.
Snore!!! Give it up man. Grasping at straws is the natural proccess to grieving.
Believe me, I felt that way when Boy Bush won twice.
Sad! You call your self grown ups. it is very simple really, the incumbent treasurer Bar Topinka gave up her job to run for governor and got her a** kicked, Ginolius whom I met once and spoke to, is a very charismatic and smart young man who learned a lot about finance and budgets by owning a bank, he won fair and square. Peter Fitzgerald, the GOP hitman have nothing to hang on but a his own neck tie. The next time his up for reelection, he’ll be sacked no question. Rezko, played everyone regardless of what party they belong to, going back to GOP governor, George Ryan who is now serving a 6 years sentence in a Federal prison for abuse and corruption. Don’t hate Obama, hate the game.
This is all you’ve got??? Pathetic.
Elitists hardly ever pay for their crimes. Witness the klintonistas, Sandy Burglar, Ted “Chappaquiddick” Kennedy, John “Ho Chi” Kerry, and on and on and on.
Nothing will happen here; the mainstream media won’t allow it and they hold the power to control the discussion and public opinion, period!
Fitzpatrick has a duty to indict Obama et al before the election. Otherwise we will face the greatest constitutional crisis in US history at the very time we need it the least.
Well, it’s Oct 31st and no endictment. Sorry no October surprise. Live with President Obama! See ya in 2016, Sarah.
There is no way this issue is going anywhere. This is based on pure speculation from sources that are so far right they are off the table and have no credibility with a vast majority of the electorate. It’s fabricated BS. Get over trying to find something nefarious and get on with life.