Rezko: Feds pushed for dirt on Obama

[Truth2Tell]

Source: Politico.com

Imprisoned Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko has accused federal prosecutors of improperly pressuring him to implicate Barack Obama in a corruption case.

In a letter to the U.S. District judge who presided over his trial, Rezko, who was convicted this month of 16 corruption-related counts including fraud and money laundering, called prosecutors “overzealous.” And he singled out what he said were their efforts to get him to turn on Obama, an Illinois Senator and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and Illinois Gov. Rod Bagojevich.

“They are pressuring me to tell them the ‘wrong’ things that I supposedly know about Governor Bagojevich and Senator Obama,” Rezko wrote in an undated letter released by the court this week. “I have never been party to any wrongdoing that involved the Governor or the Senator. I will never fabricate lies about anyone else for selfish purposes. I will take what comes my way, but I will never hurt innocent people.”

Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago, wouldn't comment on Rezko's allegation.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11041.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Whoa - the republicon homelander of 'justice' is rotten to the core

Ptoooey on the amoral, unjust, and generally filthy corrupt republicons...

[jasonberlin]

2. Rezko

I hope there's no dirt to uncover on Obama-Rezko. 'Cause if there is, it will come up by November. OY.

[truthisfreedom]

3. Yeah.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Thank you for your concern. Did you read the OP?

[jgraz]

14. Thank you for your concern.

[IsItJustMe]

16. swiftboating huh?

[BOSSHOG]

4. Relevance????

Everyone imprisoned (convicted) chats about "improper pressure??" Rezko is a felon and will be used by the grand old party against Obama. To me (a wacky democrat who has voted straight party line since 1980) that is a reflection on the gop, not you and me.

[Truth2Tell]

7. Relevance is that

the Bush Justice Department is apparently trying to gin up dirt on Obama. Obviously Rezko is not an entirely reliable source, but he is only confirming what we already knew.

[madrchsod]

6. he`s looking for a lighter sentence

the feds would have asked him about obama and bagojevich because he did contribute to their campaigns.

bagojevich is history in illinois and the sooner the better.

[Supersedeas]

8. Mukasey style justice.

[Tempest]

9. Shades of Ken Starr

This is nothing new.

Ken Starr did it with Susan McDougal and Bush appointees have been doing it for years.

[Wizard777]

10. So basically Bush is trying to Impeach Obama before he's even elected.

[weezy2736]

11. The 'slim-ball' with a moral compas? Amazing.

[VP505]

12. If you have no policy, no solutions to problems,

no plan other than more of the same, you dig for dirt and throw as much crap against that wall and see what sticks. So far and as hard as they have tried nothing seems to be sticking to nominee and future President Obama. I sure hope McSame's crew thinks real hard about going down that road, it might not be too smart of an idea for their candidate.

[DailyGrind51]

13. I would not believe anything Rezko says!

Gov. Blagojevich is as corrupt as his Republican predecessor George Ryan, but Obama is clean and Rezko is just attempting to appeal for sympathy.

[elehhhhna]

17. Yeah. I trust Bush'd DOJ waaaaaaaaaaay more than, well, anybody!

[DailyGrind51]

24. Patrick Fitzgerald convicted Illinois Republican Governor

George Ryan who had been Bush's Illinois campaign manager in 2000. Fitzgerald also convicted Scooter Libby. Sure, Fitzgerald has convicted a few of Ritchie Daley's pals, but, as a Chicagoan born and raised, they deserved it! Fitzgerald is a bi-partisan convictor!

[IsItJustMe]

15. This is scary. Why would the feds want to do Bush's dirty work? I guess all levels of our

goverment have been corrupted.

[AZ Criminal JD]

18. Patrick Fitzgerald is in charge of the Rezko prosecution.

The guy everyone on DU thought was such a hero such a short time ago.

[Truth2Tell]

20. Fitz is in charge of the Chicago US attorney's office

and therefore has supervisory authority over the investigation, but he's not "running" it himself.

[AZ Criminal JD]

23. He knows what is going on and has to approve of any acts in the case.

Much as you want to defend him.

[DailyGrind51]

25. Illinois government smells

from both sides of the aisle and Fitz and his team of prosecutors have done more to clean it up than anyone in the last four decades. This state "...needs an enema!"

[ms liberty]

19. I'm not sure I believe this...Fitzgerald is the US Attorney there

and I don't think Fitz would do this. Unless it was an end-run around Fitz, done by the Bushco's.

[Imagevision]

21. The feds should have just water-boarded him... works everywhere else...

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