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To: i-node who wrote (608653)	4/22/2011 6:12:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575614

Then there's the IL state senator who was chairman of the IL Senate Health and Human Services committee and who got a bill passed that lowered the number of Health Facilities Planning Board members from 15 to 9. The better for his first and #1 patron, Tony Rezko, to stack the board with cronies who'd use their positions to help Rezko demand kickbacks for approving new health care facilities. The fewer members, the fewer corrupt ones you need to control the board. Rezko is in prison for kickback schemes involving stacked Health Facilities and Teachers Retirement Boards. But his water boy is in the White House. We shouldn't forget Obama himself is a political creation of crooks and slumlords who wanted political favors. .... Gov. Blagojevich signed the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act with an effective date of June 27, 2003. However, before he could sign the act, a bill had to be passed by the Illinois House and Senate. As discussed prior (in her series), then- Illinois State Senator Obama was the guy in the Senate who pushed through the legislation that finally resulted in the Act. State records show Barack Obama was appointed Chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The minute the bill was introduced, it was referred to his committee for review. The sponsors of the bill ALSO served on this committee with Obama. Within a month, Chairman Obama sent word to the full Senate that the legislation should be passed. Records also show that on May 31, 2003 Senate Bill 1332 passed and specified that the “Board shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.” The legislation also reduced the number of members on the Health Facilities Planning Board from 15 to 9, paving the way for the appointment of a new five-block member majority that could rig the votes. The new members appointed included 3 doctors who contributed to Obama. Michel Malek gave Obama $10,000 on June 30, 2003 and donated $25,000 to Blagojevich on July 25, 2003. Malek also gave Obama another $500 in September, 2003. Fortunee Massuda donated $25,000 to Blagojevich also on July 25, 2003, and gave a total of $2,000 to Obama on different dates. After he was appointed to the Board, Imad Almanaseer contributed a total of $3,000 to Obama. He did not contribute to Blagojevich. Ms. Pringle further reports that when the first “pay-to-play” scheme was put in play, and the application for approval of a new hospital (Crystal Lake) was submitted, the Department of Human Services, along with four other Illinois agencies, sent recommendations that the project should be approved even though experts said the hospital was not needed. Only two pay-to-play schemes succeeded before the Feds swooped in and shut them down, however. Gov. Blagojevich did not receive the original $1.5 million from the Health Facilities Planning Board deal (but others apparently did receive money kickbacks) because the hospital was never built.” ..... madashell.com