Obama Rezko Relationship Goes Back 18 Years

If this isn't the Tony Rezko Obama knew, as he said when his buddy was convicted the other day of 16 or so felonies, then how in the heck can liberals actually claim this man has the smarts and judgment to become president of the US, or anywhere else for that matter?

Maybe his supposed homeland of Kenya would be a better place for him to start learning how to be a better crook politician, as he sure has bumbled up himself with a real losing cast of characters and hasn't even been vetted completely for the election.

This below excerpted information was taken from the article GOP video uses Rezko verdict to attack Obama :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"Rezko's relationship with Obama goes back 18 years. Some key events:"

1. In 1990, Obama was a Harvard Law School student when he got a job offer from Rezko, then a developer of low-income housing in Chicago. Obama didn't take the job.


2. In 1993, Obama got a job with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that worked with low-income housing developers.


3. In 1995, one of the firm's clients -- the Woodlawn Historic Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama's then-boss Allison Davis -- teamed with Rezko to turn a vacant nursing home at 61st and Drexel on Chicago's South Side into low-income apartments. Obama worked 32 hours on the project, but only five hours came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, according to the law firm.


4. In 1995, Obama ran for the Illinois Senate. Among his first supporters was Rezko, whose companies gave $2,000 to his campaign. Obama won the race to represent a district that included 11 of Rezko's 30 low-income housing projects.


5. In 2001, Rezko's housing empire began to crumble when his company stopped paying the mortgage on the nursing home project. The state foreclosed on the building, which was in Obama's district.

6. In 2003, Obama ran for the U.S. Senate. His campaign finance committee included Rezko, who threw a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion.

7. A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjoining pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood. Obama paid $1.65 million for the mansion, $300,000 below the asking price. Rita Rezko paid the full asking price of $625,000 for the adjacent vacant lot.

The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rita Rezko $104,500 for a strip of her land, giving Obama a bigger yard. At the time of sale, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Obama has since called the deal "boneheaded'' because it might look like he got a favor from Rezko.

8. In October 2006, Rezko was indicted for soliciting kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. The feds say $10,000 of it went into Obama's campaign fund for U.S. Senate, prompting Obama to donate the money to charity.

Quite a list there I have to say, sure doesn't sound nor look too good that the Lib Messiah Obama claims he hardly knew this man now does it? What a blatant liar this clown is, and anyone voting for him for president should have their citizenship revoked for stupidity, and just for kicks treasonous activity against the United States for supporting such a outright lying crook on training wheels like Obama the "Chocolate Liberal Savior" has turned out to be.

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