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To: Land Shark who wrote (116394)	3/4/2008 9:51:34 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 173976

What a f'ing dumbass post! Don't you ever get tired of playing thread moron? ROFL!!

To: Land Shark who wrote (116394)	3/4/2008 9:55:56 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Fundraiser's Kickback Trial Begins Chicago Businessman Sold Property to Obama in 2005 By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 4, 2008; Page A03 CHICAGO, March 3 -- For businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the goal was to get close to politicians who might matter someday. He targeted a raft of up-and-comers, including a young state senator named Barack Obama. His most questionable alliance, prosecutors will tell a federal jury this week, was with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D). When Blagojevich was elected in 2002, Rezko became a member of the governor's "kitchen cabinet," where he allegedly leveraged his role as fundraiser and political patron to seek kickbacks from companies pursuing state business. The trial is also expected to fill out the portrait of Rezko, a onetime investor, restaurant owner and Obama fundraiser who contributed to his campaigns and sold the senator from Illinois a piece of property in 2005 on Chicago's South Side. Obama is expected to be no more than a footnote to the three-month trial -- Rezko allegedly contributed $10,000 in extorted funds to Obama's campaign -- yet Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has bombarded reporters with Web links and word that the proceedings are beginning. Searching for an advantage after 11 straight primary losses, Clinton strategists said Obama should be questioned more closely about his relationship with Rezko, who faces a separate trial on charges of swindling $10 million from a financial institution.