If you have a lot of money, and you have some free time this morning, then head to downtown Chicago today. You can bid on the mansion Antoin "Tony" Rezko once owned. The Bank of America foreclosed on the home in May, today is the auction.Rezko is awaiting sentencing after being convicted last year on numerous corruption charges, most involving his role as an unofficial liaison for the disgraced administration of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
The real estate and fast food tycoon was President Obama's first political sponsor. The Rezko mansion was the site of a key fundraiser for Obama's US Senate run in 2003. While Obama trailed badly in the polls, Rezko shepherded donors to his home, giving the little-known state senator serious cash to run with the next year.
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5 comments:
Looks like a nice place.
Sam the Wonder Cat would adore running around such a roomy place! But he wouldn't enjoy being in Chicago at all! He's a spoiled baby living in central Virginia and loving it!
I have to comment on Tom DeLay going on Dancing with the Stars. All that is running through my head is Charles Durning, playing the governor of Texas, in the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" doing his song "A Little Sidestep" - never have I ever seen such pure evil joy radiating as when Durning was doing that dance! If DeLay can muster that - he might be a winner. And it might be fun watching leftwing heads spinning counterclockwise!
I guess crime does pay, for awhile anyway.
that would be a great place for a HEALTH CARE CZAR ,after all rezko,blago,obama used to pilfer from the fed gov ,in home loans ,fha ,fanny and freddie and YUP you guessed it the health care industry ,while state senator he reduced the HC board from 15 memeber to 9 ,easyer to pay off and rezko even sent Orlando Jones to vegas to steal from health care there too,to bad someone silenced him
I got a dollar
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