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Hope, Change, & Another Indicted Friend [Reader Post]

Posted by: Aye Chihuahua @ 6:03 pm in Barack Obama, Politics  | 2 views

Oh dear.

This will give Obama something to think about tonight in his DC hotel.

Federal Agents announced today that they have enough evidence to indict longtime Obama friend and close associate Illinois Governor Blagojevich.

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Sources tell CBS 2 News Chicago that Federal agents claim to have enough evidence to indict Blagojevich on fraud and conspiracy charges. However, the report says the investigators aren’t the ones who make the decision to prosecute. That would be up to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the Justice Department in Washington.

WBBM-TV mentions the Rezko connection:

Prosecutors also mentioned Blagojevich in an indictment as the intended beneficiary of at least one extortion attempt by Blagojevich fundraiser and businessmen Antoin “Tony” Rezko.

Rezko was convicted June 4 on 16 of the 24 counts against him. He awaits sentencing in October on mail and wire fraud, aiding and abetting bribery and money laundering convictions. He still faces two more trials.

The Chicago Sun-Times has reported Rezko could cut his prison time significantly by cooperating in investigations of other public figures, including Blagojevich.

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14 comments so far

Timothy
 1Reply to this comment  

Not to worry Dems….just a “third-rate” corruption case.

September 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Craig
 2Reply to this comment  

Like attracts like!

September 25th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Brian
 3Reply to this comment  

Fleas… what fleas?

September 25th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
luva the scissors
 4Reply to this comment  

when will the kool aid drinking masses pull their heads out of their asses and realize what a piece of crap he is. how is this going to be covered up by the msm?

September 25th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Scrapiron
 5Reply to this comment  

Rezko could get a ‘walk’ if he revealed the crimes Hussein O has committed.

September 25th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Larry Sheldon
 6Reply to this comment  

“DC hotel”???!???!?

Don’t most US senators have homes in or near DC?

Or is he not there enought to bother?

September 25th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
stix1972
 7Reply to this comment  

Uh oh another Illinois Gov in trouble. Man I am shocked I tell you I am shocked that there is shananigans going on in the Illinois Government.

Let’s make it 4 or is it 5 ex-govs in jail. It is the Illinois retirement program for Governors.

September 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Missy
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Blagojevich thinks he’s a great governor and is planning on running for another term.

I pass a gigantic campaign sign everyday with the MoveOnDickDurbin web address on it. Other posters from Illinois might want to sift through it, it’s interesting.

Here’s the article that talks about the gov, guess even though he is Obama’s home state gov, he wasn’t allowed to speak at the convention.

http://www.moveondickdurbin.org/friends.asp#013

Obama doesn’t want to talk CAC, Ayres, Rezco and now wants to hide his governor.

September 26th, 2008 at 4:04 am
joe from chi
 9Reply to this comment  

Blowgo is just one of many that needs to be in handcuffs…..

September 26th, 2008 at 5:52 am
jainphx
 10Reply to this comment  

Chicago still runs Illinois. The state was run by Capone, and now the Daley machine. The people in Illinois always seem to be two steps behind for one they take forward. I’m taking odds that FizGerald doesn’t prosecute, he knows which side of the bread gets the butter. It’s no coincidence that Gore chose A Daley to over see vote stealing in 2000. Obambi has the whole Chicago machine working in his behalf. Polls are close so that after the vote stealing no one will be all that suspicious. I just wonder how many elections the Democrooks could win without fraud. I would suspect very few.

September 26th, 2008 at 7:19 am
cald
 11Reply to this comment  

When and where was the above photo taken? What was the event?

Thanks for any details.

December 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Aye Chihuahua
 12Reply to this comment  

Cald,

The photo was taken in 2004.

December 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
cald
 13Reply to this comment  

Thanks!

December 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

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