Obama Donates More Tainted Cash
April 30th, 2008 at 12:05pm Matt Margolis
This just hasn’t been the best of weeks for Obama.
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama is giving $2,300 in presidential campaign contributions to charity — money he got from Aiham Alsammarae, a dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen who posted more than $2.7 million in property to help spring Tony Rezko from jail.
Alsammarae, Iraq’s former electricity minister, gave to Obama’s presidential campaign six times in January, February and March.
“The contributions were made online,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said. Obama is giving them to charity “given the circumstances brought to light by recent news reports.”
The Chicago Sun-Times reported in its Sunday editions about Alsammarae posting his Oak Brook mansion and two South Loop condominiums to help free Rezko — a onetime Obama political fund-raiser and patron — from jail earlier this month.
According to the report, Obama has had to rid himself of nearly $160,000 in Rezko-connected cash.
UPDATE: Ouch: Rezko Trial Witness Says Obama Attended Party for Auchi at Rezko’s Mansion
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Corruption, Democrats
6 Comments
1. OhioOrrin | April 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
wait a minute - is rezko muslim too? (nuck, nuck,nuck)
the swifties need to get on this muslim-gate !
2. phnx | April 30th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Barry is having trouble distancing himself from the Rezko cesspool. The fun is only just begining.
Don’t ya just luv it when Dems try to squirm out of their corrupt backgrounds.
(Now I’m wating for DP to change the subject like she always does).
3. js | April 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
the billionare is the one that was convicted on political corruption charges in France…and somehow…just before rezko and obama bought the two side by side properties, you know the one that obama benefits from rezko buying by getting his house price decreased…this billionare gave rezko 3.5 million dollars….
its strange how these loose ends come so close…all we gotta do is figure out what ties them together….
4. FmrMarine | April 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
JS
Earbama seems pretty close to these guys also
http://runn.smugmug.com/photos/271481422_EuVeq-O.gif
5. js | April 30th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
lol, surely gotta be earbama in tehran, no?
6. navigatum-aestuatum.info&hellip | May 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Obama Donates More Tainted Cash
OMG..my primary sch teacher added me on facebook! She was like my fav pri sch teacher la. Was still in contact wif her in sec sch..but after tat..kinda lost the connection there..and now she found me haha. Nice to see she’s fine n more …