The One better get into office quick and start issuing some pardons:
A former Illinois real estate specialist says FBI agents have questioned him about a Chicago property that had been bought by convicted felon Tony Rezko’s wife and later sold to the couple’s next-door neighbor, Sen. Barack Obama.
The real estate specialist, Kenneth J. Conner, said bank officials replaced an appraisal review he prepared on the property and FBI agents were investigating in late 2007 whether the Rezko-Obama deal was proper.
“Agents and I talked about payoff, bribe, kickback for a long time, though it took them only a short number of minutes of talking with me while looking at the appraisal to acknowledge what they already seemed to know: The Rezko lot was grossly overvalued,” Mr. Conner told The Washington Times Monday.
“Rezko paid the asking price on the same day Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price to the same seller for his adjacent mansion,” he said. “This begs the question of payoff, bribe, kickback.”
It doesn’t really beg the question – this is just par for the course in Chicago politics. The way things are done is via payoffs, bribes and kickbacks, and President-elect Obama has been hip deep in it. Perhaps a full airing of what went on will show that Obama was just an innocent bystander in all this, but I doubt it – and thus we’ll see this investigation fizzle out very shortly after January 20th.
I wonder, though, if Obama will pull a Clinton here and fire all of the US Attorneys in order to get rid of the one he really wants gone, Fitzgerald in Chicago? What will the liberals say, then? And don’t any of them want to rise to the defense of the “Merry Fitzmas”?
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