Marathon Pundit: Doubts cast on Rezko's claim of pressure to "flip" on Obama and Blagojevich

Monday, June 16, 2008

Doubts cast on Rezko's claim of pressure to "flip" on Obama and Blagojevich

The pro-Barack Obama media (a redundancy, yes) trumpeted the claim in a letter released last week by recently convicted felon Antoin "Tony" Rezko that "(Prosecutors) are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Senator Barack Obama."

On the surface, it's a pretty good story. But it probably isn't true, as the Chicago Sun-Times explains this morning:

But that letter appears to be misleading, given that Rezko never submitted to an interview with federal prosecutors or any federal investigators, sources said.

Rezko's lawyer, Joseph Duffy, said Rezko never sat down for an interview and was never pressured directly, or indirectly, through Duffy, to talk about Obama, Gov. Blagojevich -- or anyone else.