Marathon Pundit: Obama's Chicago skeletons: Rezko and Broadway Bank

The mainstream media is not doing its job in reporting on the many suspicious relationships Barack Obama has developed during his rise to power on Chicago's South Side. The MSM needs to be supplanted, but that's another argument for another time.

Abraham H. Miller of Pajamas Media is doing his job.

Chicago blogs are chirping away about Tony Rezko's meetings with the federal prosecutor. Tony is singing like a songbird. You'd think that the electronic media would be more interested in what Tony might be saying than in how much it cost Sarah Palin to fly her children to state events, something every other Alaskan governor seems to have done.

Tony, you will remember, was Barack Obama’s financial mentor, the guy who subsidized the purchase of Obama's Hyde Park mansion, and the guy who created the "pay for play" hospital construction scheme that was the end result of legislation Obama sponsored in the Illinois legislature.

Tony was overdrawn $450,000 at a Chicago bank with alleged ties to organized crime. You'd think CNN might send Anderson Cooper to Chicago to investigate why the bank doesn't have the same kind of check verification technology you encounter at your local supermarket.

And here is another hint for Anderson's story: What Illinois senator, currently seeking higher office, kept his senatorial campaign funds there and why? Rest assured, it wasn't because he enjoyed the rush-hour commute across town from his Hyde Park mansion to make deposits.

Chicago blogs are chirping away...Where is the rest of the media? Even Chicago newspapers are getting amnesia over Rezko. Two weeks ago the Chicago Tribune, the paper that broke the still-unexplained real estate deal between convicted felon Tony Rezko and Obama, did not even mention Obama's jailbird buddy as it endorsed The One for president.

The bank Miller mentioned is Broadway Bank, owned by the family of Illinois State Treausurer Alexi Giannoulias, whom Obama endorsed over the party slated candidate two years ago. Let me make this clear--there is no way "The Boy Banker" would've won the primary had it not been for Obama's endorsement. No way. Obama also appeared in a television commercial touting Alexi. After Alexi's win, it was revealed that he approved two multi-million dollar loans to mobster Michael "Jaws" Giorango.

Over $10 million was loaned by Broadway Bank to reputed "new mafiya" businessmen Lev and Boris Stratievsky.

And what about Broadway Bank? Are the other mob loans we don't know about?

Where is the MSM? I guess they're too busy looking into Joe the Plumber's trade licence.

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Obama's "sweetheart" mortgage: Was the competing lender Broadway Bank?

Obama, Alexi, and Broadway Bank

Judicial Watch files complaints against Obama over mansion mortgage

Coincidences and the Las Vegas Rezko arrest warrant

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