Breaking Story: “Prosecutor Fitzgerald Could Send Obama To Jail”
Maggie’s Notebook Saturday, October 11, 2008
URGENT: we are one step closer to Rezko giving Obama up to federal prosecutors
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.
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(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.
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Ted: You are ……. in technocolour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKn6h2x5IcY
Ok, so, if Obama can’t be elected because he’s a crook, I wonder if Bush will put a hold on elections so the Dems can field another candidate, just to be “fair?” I believe he’s foolish enough to do that. If he does, then I’ve got a link I’ll show you about that, but not till then ’cause it won’t be relevant unless that happens.
I read a prediction by a Rabbi or Kabbalist? can’t recall the source who predicted that not only will neither Obama or McCain be president that Bush would continue?
Yonatan, there’s no legal ability to delay elections.
Yamit, you’ll soon find out how reputable this Rav/Kabalist is, won’t you? Need I remind you of Rav Eliyahu’s (AMV”S) rosey prediction some 3 years ago?
“Lo Ba’shamayim He”
I guess I/we will (smiling)
“Lo Ba’shamayim He”
“The innocence of the just will guide them but the corruption of the faithless will despoil them.”
barzel b’barzel yachad, v’ish yachad p’nai rei’eihu
As an aside, I have always loved that last line: ni sh uni banay ( – my sons have defeated me. As an aside, I have always loved that last line: ni sh uni banay (E E Tzhauni son) – my sons have defeated me. (Or, more precisely, ‘my sons are victorious over me’. Ni s a h on means victory, it is related to ne s a h – eternity.) It is an example of the playfulness often found in the Talmudic text. (Or, more precisely, ‘my sons are victorious over me’. Ni s a h on [victory] means victory, it is related to ne s a h [endurance] – eternity.) It is an example of the playfulness often found in the Talmudic text. Remember, the Talmud is a record of actual discussions between real people. Remember Ni sh uni banay doesn’t really make literal sense (if God is saying it), but it effectively conveys the message that Man’s fate is in his own hands, and God approves. Ni sh uni banay doesn’t really make literal sense (if God is saying it), but it effectively conveys the message that Man’s fate is in his own hands, and God approves
I am not sure if this even matters. It is not a settled legal issue, but I have heard legal scholars (including Robert Bork) who claim a sitting President cannot be indicted. I am not sure what happens if the indictment comes before inauguration. Given the race riots and primary challenges that would certainly follow, there is no way a majority Deomcratic House of Representatives will vote to impeach.
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I loved it. I grew up with the Everly Brothers.
Please put Obama in an Islamic jail and put his Islamic dress back on him when he is convicted! That is more fitting of Louis Farrakhan’s messiah!
Everly Brothers! Great!
I grew up with the Smothers Brothers!
I have no doubt these charges against Obama are true, but I do not believe for one minute Obama will actually be implicated and face the consequences. It will be covered up.
Yamit, Sunstar: Please pay very close attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08faadshLvg
yamit82 — October 12, 2008 @ 1:16 am
Something like that.
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And, yes, Shy Guy — October 12, 2008 @ 2:06 am, Bush has already issued an executive order relating to another issue but under which he might be able to, “for the good of the country,” put a hold on the election by instituting martial law.
If the normal election process were disrupted by, say, Obama and many Dems being indicted, then that would be a crisis that I would think might trigger such a response, and it might be able to be done under this Presidential Directive…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
See also here…
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55824
And I am FAR LESS WORRIED about Bush using that than Obama, if he were elected, and don’t think that Commie wouldn’t!
I don’t make things up. You shouldn’t, either.
My first girl friend had all their records.
I’ll give you a hint and we’ll see if you can figure out what your mistake is. No law degree necessary.
From the directive:
Can you figure out why the directive is irrelevant in the case of a presidential candidate being unable to continue his candidacy?
And I never said you “make things up”. Ironically, you made that assumption up yourself.
Congress could always enact a law delaying the election for reasons x y or z. That would cover the law as it exists. That theoretically could be done in half a day.
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