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
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