From the New York Times last summer:
Mr. Obama has portrayed Mr. Rezko as a one-time fund-raiser whom he had occasionally seen socially. But interviews with more than a dozen political and business associates suggest that the two men were closer than the senator has indicated.
I didn't need the Old Gray Lady to tell me that!
Going back a couple of months earlier, I'm going to turn to yet another Chicago Sun-Times article.
After graduating from Harvard's law school, Obama took a job where the first listed name-partner was Allison S. Davis.
From the Sun-Times:
Five years later, having left his Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland firm, Davis invested in Antoin "Tony" Rezko's final government-subsidized, low-income housing project, state records show, in a deal handled by Davis' former law firm.
Davis and Rezko also went into business together, building upscale homes in the booming Kenwood neighborhood where Davis lives. The legal work on those deals was also done by Davis' former law firm, where Obama was working.
Davis, 67, and Rezko are still business partners "in a technical sense," Davis said in an interview, though he added, "There's nothing going on in the last couple years."
He said he didn't recall how or when he met Rezko, a businessman and political fund-raiser under indictment on federal charges that include demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state pension investments under Gov. Blagojevich.
Yes, the business dealings of Davis and Rezko started after Davis left his firm.
But Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland did some legal work for the firm Rezko's co-owned company, Rezmar. Although how much Obama did for Rezmar while an attorney there is still unclear.
When Obama practiced law there, the firm was a small one, as it is today.
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