Tony Rezko is, well, everywhere. Barack Obama's onetime property neighbor was part of a $50 million security deal with the Iraqi government.
And as is often the case with Rezko, Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich's fingerprints can be found in the Rezko deal.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Two years ago, Iraq's Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company owned by now-indicted businessman Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop with a checkered financial past.
Within a month, an Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo.
Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States.
Companion found support last summer from Gov. Blagojevich, whose staff offered to let the company lease a military facility in western Illinois. Since then, Companion has been lobbying officials from Washington to Baghdad about its Iraqi deal, according to documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
It was publicly known months earlier that Rezko was under federal investigation for various corruption charges.
A Blagojevich staffer told the Chicago Sun-Times that the Chicago Democrat was unaware of any Rezko link to Companion.
Well, if you want to believe that, I should be able to convince you that Mt. Everest is in Ohio.
In the photo inset, that's Tony Rezko with Gov. Blagojevich. Graphic courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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