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Deep roots of corruption and criminal insider political pandering for cash. The real estate developer Antoin (Tony) Rezko is currently in federal prison for political influence peddling, fraud, and bribery. In 2005 Rezko’s wife Rita purchased the adjoining property next to the Obama’s current home at full price while the Obamas paid $300,000.00 less than market value on the very same day. Given the close personal, political, and professional relationship between the Obamas and the Rezkos, Barrack Obama’s denial that he and Rezko did not coordinate the buying of their adjacent properties is absurd. The FBI was already investigating Tony Rezko when the Obamas and Rita Rezko bought adjacent property from the same seller on the same day. The Obamas and the Rezkos purposely used Tony’s wife Rita as the buyer to avoid a scandal if the public found out that Tony, AKA the FBI target, was the buyer of the vacant lot adjacent to the Obamas. Did Rita Rezko get the money to buy the property next to the Obamas from her husband Tony? Did Rita learn that the property was for sale from her husband Tony? Rita Rezko did not come home one day and say to her husband, “Tony, guess what, I used our money to buy a vacant lot today. You’ll never guess who bought the house next door to my lot?”

In 2006 the Obamas bought a 10 foot wide strip of land from Rita Rezko at $60,000.00 above the assessed value of the property. The Obamas purposely paid money above and beyond the assessed property value because they were heavily criticized for paying $300,000.00 below the assessed value for the house. By the time the Obamas bought the strip of land from Rita Rezko, they were earning big bucks from Barrack’s book, “The Audacity of Hope,” and Michelle’s salary jumped from $122,000 in 2004 to $322,000.00 in 2005 after Barrack was elected to the U.S. Senate. Given the Obamas much higher income, the Obamas could now afford to buy off unfavorable publicity. Barrack Obama donated to charity about $170,000.00 of the $250,000 in campaign contributions tied to Rezko, but the Obamas have not been in any hurry to rid themselves of their house that has convicted felon Rezko’s name written all over it.

Rezko’s company Rezmar used more than $100 million in city, state and federal funds and bank loans to rehab 30 apartment buildings in Chicago. It is quite conceivable that Michelle Obama in her job as Assistant Planning and Development Commissioner helped Rezko acquire funds to rehab his apartment buildings. While Michelle Obama was using her position in Chicago’s Planning Department to help Rezko receive government funding for his projects, Rezko was helping to provide the seed money for Barrack Obama’s Illinois State Senate, U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate races. In 1997 Barrack Obama asked city and state officials to support a Tony Rezko and Allison Davis low-income senior citizen development project. In addition to receiving more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, Rezko and Davis received $885,000 in development fees that Barrack Obama’s support help secure,. The Obamas and the Rezkos helping one another for personal and political gain is a classic example of the “Chicago way.” Rezko will never implicate the Obamas because Barrack Obama is the only person in the world who could use a presidential pardon to free Rezko from prison.

Mayor Daley depended on his high ranking administrators, such as Michelle Obama to participate and contribute to his 16 year hiring and election rigging scheme. In fact, several top Daley officials at Mrs. Obama’s level or above have already been convicted or implicated in federal court. Former Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez and Former Water Department Assistant Commissioner Donald Tomczak have been convicted and are currently serving their sentences. Former Intergovernmental Affairs employee Robert Sorich, who the media often called “Daley’s patronage chief,” is serving time in a federal prison after losing his U.S. Supreme Court appeal. While testifying in federal court Donald Tomczak implicated three successive Intergovermental Affairs commissioners, Timothy Degnan, Victor Reyes, and John Doer, for their participation in Daley’s hiring and election rigging scheme. Sanchez, Tomczak, Sorich, Degnan, Reyes, and Doer were all at the same level of city government or above as Michelle Obama. During the federal court trials it was clearly shown that orders in Chicago’s political hierarchy came from the next level above. For Michelle Obama to survive as a high ranking member of Daley’s political machine, the First Lady had to receive, pass along, and follow Mayor Daley’s political orders regardless if they were ethical or legal.

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