Clinton Got Money From Rezko Codefendants

Clinton Got Money From Rezko Codefendants

Daily Kos   |  First Amendment   |   March 9, 2008 11:08 AM


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The vetting of the Clinton's is just beginning. This was a risky strategy by the Clinton's in the first place, because the boomerang effect will expose much more of their shenanigans to the American people....

...Since the name of Chicago defendant Antoin 'Tony' Rezko has come up in national debate, it seems fair to look at donations from other defendants in Chicago's "Operation Board Games."

Of the other five defendants, three have donated to the Clintons or to Clinton supporters, three have donated mostly to Republicans, and at least two have donated to Obama's political opponents. None have donated to Obama.


 
 

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Well all this who's dirtier than who is getting boring... This is actually a Dem party problem. I'll back off on flaming my preferred candidates opponent.

Meanwhile lets look to the future....The Dem Convention!!!!

After the so called loyalist party members dubbed the superdelegates make their decision as to who the Dem nominee for President will be for the General 08 election "We the peon voters" Indies, Newbies & Crossover voters will have a chance to have our say. But NOT until after these superdelegates vote as their rules dictate. ... for anyone and for any reason they decide. thats the rules so nothing more to be said about it.

So what happens after the convention... A few scenarios...

1 In the General vote FOR your states entire Dem Senate and Congressional seats.

2 Decide to vote AGAINST the Dem nominee by leaving the Presidential slot BLANK in Nov 08

3 Vote with your feet by not showing up to vote in Nov 08

4 Vote for the nominee just because thats the only choice you have been given

5 Most importantly vote FOR the candidate because this Candidate is YOUR choice.

I assure you Sen Obama being a loyal Dem party member will urge his supporters to toe the Democratic Party line... I am voting for a candidate for President of the United States... NOT a Party...
I am NOT a follow my party right or wrong voter..I'm not even a member ..It will be interesting to see how many Indies and newbie & crossover voters feel the same way.

Btw no offence to those that are card carrying Democratic Party members is intended. I actually give you kudos and wish your party the best of luck in November!! Will you be able to heal your party in time from August 25-28- thru- Nov 4th... I personally think it was a mistake to carry out a General type election during a Dem primary campaign...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:50 PM on 03/10/2008

Building a loyal following of political supporters Using OPM
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/26/hsu_raised_big_money_for_clinton_supporters/

Rendell had said last week he planned to keep nearly $40,000 of Hsu's money even though he was wanted for failing to appear for sentencing after pleading no contest to a felony charge of bilking investors out of $1 million.

"Though Norman is my friend, and remains so, his failure to appear casts a new light on his assertions regarding the original case," Rendell said in a statement before Hsu's arrest Thursday. "As a result, I will follow other elected officials and donate the money he contributed to me to charity."

Ultimately the $850k to Clinton & the $40k Rendell recieved were donated to charity... It really is interesting to map out who got Hsu's donations... Of course building friends and alliances using OPM is the lifeblood of politics. Anyone think that Norman picked the ultimate recipients of his donations out of a hat?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/07/politics/main3240773.shtml

BOP prisoner NORMAN HSU 60590-054 56 Asian M.. has a lot of political friends he can still count on.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:34 PM on 03/10/2008

So did Bush

look it up

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:23 PM on 03/10/2008

ROFLMAO... Chinese organized crime figures pay ALL sides not to do so is suicide... Who gets the lions share of the funds???

Wait.. their just philantropists.....


Charle Trie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op080397.htm

Norman Hsu's Boss Chan Tse-Chiu aka Eddie Chan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D6173AF931A3575AC0A966958260

Norman
The return Of Dollar Bill's magic money men ...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 PM on 03/10/2008

will these guys get fired!!

Ooops just kidding they are clintonions peeeps!!

they dont atand up for morals!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:27 AM on 03/10/2008

Oh yeah and to the MSM that continue the lie that Rezko belongs to Obama and not the Clintons...

You would think if the picture is posted here, with a story....that they already know this FACT and are therefore distorting the Rezko connection for the purpose of discrediting Obama and supporting Sybil McClinton. Now why would GE do that?????

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 03/10/2008

Thanks for the helpful link to the Clinton/Rezko photo. Picture says a 1,000,000,000,000 words.

I plan on saving it and posting it to every Clinton apologist on Huff Po that continues to help Sybil McClinton lie about this fact.

Must appreciated.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 AM on 03/10/2008

This picture has been out for months - you Hillary abusers are behind the times. Daily Kos of course knows that the photo has been out for months. Good luck with this one, but it's a souvenir picture..

Did you know that politicians have their picture taken with 10s of 1000s of people?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:24 PM on 03/10/2008

You are truly a moron, the pic was taken at a CHICAGO fundraiser for Carol Mosley -Braun, who was the Senator from Illinois. Tony Rezko helped Obama BUY HIS HOUSE, go read about their 17 year relationship, Rezko was Obama's biggest fundraiser and is on trial in Chicago this week for Political Corruption. If you can read go to the Chicago papers and take a look, you wouldn't read anything about it on the Huff

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 PM on 03/10/2008

Building a loyal following of political supporters Using OPM
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/26/hsu_raised_big_money_for_clinton_supporters/

Charle Trie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op080397.htm

Norman Hsu's Boss Chan Tse-Chiu aka Eddie Chan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D6173AF931A3575AC0A966958260

Norman
The return Of Dollar Bill's magic money men ... err pass it on to Hillary please...$850 Thousand Dollars
Norman
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5643329

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 AM on 03/10/2008

Another Clinton LIE.

Attagirl, Hillary! It's what you do best!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:39 AM on 03/10/2008

Hey about the fact that rezko helped finance obama's run for the senate. With the help of the Iraqi crook now living in Britian Auchi. The same guy that helped rezko get financing from a Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA on May 23, 2005 to secure the 1.5 million dollar financing for obama's 1.5 million dollar house.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PICTURES OF OBAMA AND REZKO SHAKING HANDS WITH AUCHI...now that's something the MSM should have distrubuted...but it never happened. this crook finance obama's campaign to get off the ground so obama would get him a visa to the US after our government had banned him...

HAVEN'T HEARD A WORD ABOUT THAT IN THE MSM EITHER. As per usual there is a ban on negative press about obama and anything goes, any lie, any manufactured piece of crap, any hateful post about Hillary is posted and added to .

OBAMA IS STILL NOT GOING TO BE THE CANDIDATE. SOME HOW THE MOST DAMAGING THING ABOUT HIM IS GOING TO COME TO LIGHT.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:56 AM on 03/10/2008

The truth hurts, doesn't it?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:45 PM on 03/10/2008

How much does Hillary pay you? They way you people lie, I don't know how you sleep at night.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:07 PM on 03/10/2008

This information is pointless if Obama and the media does nothing with it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:14 AM on 03/10/2008

Shh! It's OK if it's Hillary! She is teflon.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 AM on 03/10/2008

Here are the donations of Rezko's co-defendents to Hillary Clinton or husband Bill Clinton:

Co-defendent Cari (out of $203,000 donated): gave to Hillary Clinton $500 in 2000 and $1000 in 2003, gave money to HILLPAC in 2002, and gave money to a PAC that donated to both Clintons. Cari gave $2000 13 years ago in 1995 to Bill Clinton.

Hillary returned at least the $1000 donation. No direct Obama contributions are listed, but Obama returned $1439 from apportioned DNC and/or Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee contributions.

Co-defendent Stuart Levine (out of $255,000 donated): gave nothing to Hillary Clinton; gave $1000 13 years ago to Bill Clinton.

Co-defendent Hurtgen (out of $48,000 donated): gave nothing to Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton.

Co-defendent Kiferbaum (out of $27,000 donated): gave nothing to Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton.

Co-defendent Loren (out of $1,500 donated): gave nothing to Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:47 AM on 03/10/2008

wow, the clintons are busted!

hahah what a joke.

thanks for pointing out how little of an issue this is. they will try to do anything to make Rezco a Clinton problem and not an Obama problem.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:27 AM on 03/10/2008

To anyone reading this post, you need to go to you tube and search out "The Hillary Movie" and watch all 9 segments and then ask yourself if you could vote for her .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 PM on 03/09/2008

the clintons are dirty . . . how anyone would vote for billary is beyond me . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:45 AM on 03/10/2008

The pork barrel comment below should be ammended to include the FACT that Hillary's pork dwarfs that of Obama. It is nice to see the HillTrolls NOT wanting to discuss Rezko anymore. Funny stuff.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 PM on 03/09/2008

Obama benefits from pork barrel earmarks he sent to his district.


SPRINGFIELD - Barack Obama has expressed pride in his ability to bring home old-fashioned pork....

...some of the larger grants Obama sponsored were tied to political allies and show how difficult it is even for politicians advocating reform to avoid the appearance of favoritism as they dole out taxpayer funds. Several non-profit directors, for instance, gave money to Obama's campaigns soon after their allotments were awarded....

The Tribune analyzed 119 grants in which Obama steered more than $6 million for Chicago projects between late 1999 and late 2002, the heart of his Statehouse career and the center of a state government frenzy in which Obama said the pork-barrel process was "wide open."

Obama steered $75,000 to a South Side charity called FORUM Inc., which promised to help churches and community groups get wired to the Internet. Records show five FORUM employees, including one who had declared bankruptcy, had donated $1,000 apiece to Obama's state Senate campaign.

FORUM founder Yesse Yehudah, who unsuccessfully ran for state Senate against Obama in 1998, denied wrongdoing and, without admitting guilt, settled the attorney general's lawsuit by paying $10,000 to a charity. He declined to comment....

One of those long-time supporters was Rev. Michael Pfleger, the politically active leader of St. Sabina Church. He gave Obama's campaign $1,500 between 1995 and 2001, including $200 in April 2001, about three months after Obama announced $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs.

Personal ties to Obama also were evident in some pork dispensed by his political allies. The Chicago-based Muntu Dance Theatre received a $4.5 million grant to help pay for a $10 million cultural center.

Obama's mentor in Springfield, state Sen. Emil Jones (D-Chicago), sponsored the grant. And at the time $2.25 million of the grant was disbursed, Obama's wife, Michelle, sat on the non-profit dance group's board.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-0705030035may03,1,4518503.story?coll=chi_news_politics_util

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:10 PM on 03/09/2008

You are off topic here, what does pork barrel spending have to do with the Clintons' involvement with Rezko?

If you want to talk about influence peddling let me provide you with a list so you can see for yourself the unparallel level of corruption of the Clintons.


http://hillaryclinton.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/dirty-politics-and-dirty-money/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:14 PM on 03/09/2008

So, pork is where you want to go?

O.K....Here's a little teat for you 1968:

Clinton Earmarks Land Her In Top Ten In Senate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/clinton-pork

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/15/clinton-earmarks-land-her_n_86890.html

For Clinton, Even Presidential Politics Is Local

On the same day that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) announced that he had raised $25 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) made her own $25 million announcement -- a federal grant to restore oyster beds in Long Island Sound.

She also lined up $14 million for the Montauk Point Lighthouse and $18 million to stop erosion at Orchard Beach. A few days earlier, Clinton took a break from her presidential campaign to applaud a new Bass Pro Shops megastore in Buffalo and to meet with the federal railroad administrator about train derailments in New York. Another day, she toured Upstate veterans hospitals and visited troops at Fort Drum instead of heading to Iowa or New Hampshire.

In the 6 1/2 years since she was elected to the Senate, Clinton has paid close attention to the constituent services and pork-barrel politics that earned one of her predecessors, Republican Alfonse M. D'Amato, the nickname "Senator Pothole."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701987.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:59 PM on 03/09/2008

Note, you can "flag" Susan1968's spam posts if you don't want to read them.

Some of us have been doing that earlier when she was spamming the site with inappropriate posts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:21 PM on 03/09/2008

Flagging should be saved for personally offensive or inappropriate posts. Not posts that we disagree with.

I haven't seen any posts by Susan1968 that were inappropriate.

Completely inane, yes. Inappropriate, no.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:07 PM on 03/09/2008

Spam is inappropriate.

Repeat cut-and-pastes of entire articles in non-related threads is a Susan1968 specialty. FLAGGED

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:49 PM on 03/10/2008

LOL

It's supporters like Susan who give Hillary supporters a bad rep.

Spam much?

Then again, she seems more interested in trying to prove someone "wrong" rather than supporting her candidate.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 PM on 03/09/2008

To anyone reading this post, you need to go to you tube and search out "The Hillary Movie" and watch all 9 segments and then ask yourself if you could vote for her .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 PM on 03/09/2008

Yet Clinton, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, placed $2.2 billion worth of earmarks in spending bills from 2002-2006.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aXWIZU3DOyr4

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:36 PM on 03/09/2008

Here are earmarks for the current fiscal year - FY2008. Clinton asked for less than Obama by herself, but much more than Obama with other members of Congress.

Clinton
Solo Earmarks $ 98,000
Solo & With Other Members $342,403,455
Solo & With Other Members & Bush $1,209,611,755
Obama
Solo Earmarks $3,334,520
Solo & With Other Members $ 98,648,720
Solo & With Other Members & Bush $ 106,520,720

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:34 AM on 03/10/2008

Serious?

E'gad... I didn't know that.

That's a lot of wasted money.

But what about Obama?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:19 PM on 03/09/2008

You can feel free to call him President Obama. Go ahead and try it on. You'll be saying it for 8 years.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:45 PM on 03/09/2008

Big Shocker.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:00 PM on 03/09/2008

from Blue Jersey & Cathy Callahan

Clinton finance committee member jumps to Obama and speaks!

I voluntarily left the Hillary Finance Committee after I discovered more than $3, 000 in unauthorized charges from HRC campaign on my own VISA card! And that set off a wave of overdrafts and $400 in bank charges that I was stuck with. And thE compliance officer Allison Wright at Hillary VA headquarters refused to reimburse me for the charges. And the senior finance reps who I notified about more than $3, 000 in Unauthorized Visa Charges: never once aplogized or empathized with my plight...Much less send me a "sorry for all the trouble" note and a check!

Unbelievably, it took me more than a month of pleading and begging VIA email to get the money back. I was told verbatim:

"Kathy Callahan, you are going to be with us all the way to the White House...So let's leave the money where it is and we'll save time on inevitable future donations and transactions!"

I went into a state of abject shock, disbelief and later anger! Heartbroken. I didn't want to report this entirely correctable problem to anyone outside the Hillary campaign! One long month later, and at the behest of a bank executive who said to me a few days before Christmas Eve,
"You are way way way over the legal donor limit, Kathy! What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?"
So I followed his direction and filed a police report in Ridgefield. I then notified Allison Wright and Cc'ed senior finance reps (who I met many times) via email again -about the police report and said,
"Enough is Enough, already! Christmas is coming!"

It was then and only then and within a matter of seconds that I got a cell phone call and email from Allison Wright imploring me, "Kathy, please don't do anything, formally! I will send you whatever you want back, immediately!" I told her,
"You can send all of my money back!" Finally, $5, 300 large came back to me but not $400 in overdraft charges. And to think that the legal limit during the primary is $2, 300 and I had already generously and enthusiastically donated $2, 000 to Hillary legitimately!

I had no other choice but to walk away! And I am so glad that I did. Every cloud has a green, gold and silver lining. And in my case it's Barack Obama.

-Kathy Callahan, MSW, NJ LCSW, MASS LICSW



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:43 PM on 03/09/2008


Did a little more searching on this Kathy Callahan story snowcat posted. If she really was on the HC Finance committee she would have known what the legal donation limit is.

Also, you can donate with your credit card but when the campaign finds out you over-donated they refund it.

I still think, judging from Kathy's posts on HuffPo she's a little off kilter. And I think this story was made up to cover the fact that she was using her credit card to make illegal donations.

However, I found this information from Open Secrets and it's clear $5800 of Kathy's money was refunded in Nov-mid December.

Callahan, Kathy - Ridgefield, NJ - $1,200 - 11/2/2007 - Refund

Callahan, Kathy Ridgefield, NJ - $1,800 - 12/3/2007 - Refund

Callahan, Kathy Ridgefield, NJ - $2,300 - 12/18/2007 - Refund

Callahan, Kathy Ridgefield, NJ - $500 - 12/18/2007 - Refund

http://opensecrets.org/pres08/expend_detail.asp?ID=N00000019&cycle=2008&code=R90&Page=5

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:26 PM on 03/09/2008

SNOWCAT ... do you beleive everything posted on the net?w

This Kathy Callahan used to post here on HuffPo and announced she was an Obama supporter as far back as 2007. If you read her posts in her profile she sounds a little off, toput it politely? (her profile linked below.)

It's hard to beleive Kathy was working for Hillary while supporting Obama here including her email address on some posts. Here's some of her posts from huffpo. I especially like the one where Kathy calls herself a shapeshifter.

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I hope and pray you endorse Barack Obama. I respect whatever you choose to do!

Kathy Callahan, LCSW, LICSW posted 01/21/2008 at 13:01:50
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As a psychotherapist I know for sure that that -shocking disasters, catastrophes, careless mistakes in judgment and reckless behavior typically happens when and after people "greatly Underestimate the task, circumstance and or challange that's before them..." "A healthy dose of befitting worry is focusing and empowering!"

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Kathy Callahan was born in Jersey City. Her first childhood shapeshifting memory was being at the assasination of John F Kennedy -propped up on her da's shoulders on Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Nov 22, 1963. And all the Irish American Tribal emotion was felt from Dallas and back to NJ. She dreamed about joining The Peace Corps and making a real DEM difference as a clinical social worker. The DLC and all that goes along with it -never "fired up" or captured her imagination or elevated her soul. posted 01/17/2008 at 00:22:47

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On the day after New Hampshire in NJ at 3pm: Senator Barack Obama is leading a fired up and ready to go RALLY for CHANGE and new possibilities with Jersey City Mayor Jeremiah Healey at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ! This is followed by a Barack Obama fund raising event just minutes away in NYC in the evening.
-Kathy Callahan, NJ LCSW, MASS LICSW

posted 01/08/2008 at 09:22:06
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/profile/kathcalla



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:51 PM on 03/09/2008


Obama: Just another mug-slinging politician:

Quote:

Barack Obama"s presidential campaign "scored a significant hit" against chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "by helping to place" a story about tainted Democratic donor Norman Hsu ...
The story, titled Teacher and Apprentice by associate editor Marc Ambinder, describes how Obama campaign staffers were "frustrated" because the press was not covering Clinton "in the way they expected it would."

"¦And at a campaign event in Iowa, one of Obama"s aides plopped down next to me and spoke even more bluntly. He wanted to know when reporters would begin to look into Bill Clinton"s postpresidential sex life," Ambinder writes. ...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Norman_Hsu

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:41 PM on 03/09/2008