Friday, December 12, 2008

Rezko Singing A Different Tune


The Really: Does Rezko's delay in sentencing and a footnote in the Blago charges mean Rezko is singing?

Last summer, convicted operator Antoin Rezko (fundraiser, real estate developer, Chicagoan) wrote to his judge noting that the FEDS were trying to get him implicate the Governor of Illinois and the President-elect in some sort of wrongdoing. HE SAID HE COULDN'T AND WOULDN'T.



But several journalistic sources are putting together the pieces which include the "neglected" land deal between Obama and Rezko which ended with a bank employee's firing and some "missing" paperwork.

Of course given the chance to spend less time in jail one might say anything. Read the sleuthing at WSJ and at Slate: Bam Sandwich? Yikes. 1) Rezko's talking; 2) The FBI's been asking about the house deal (an Election Day story I'd missed). ... 1:44 A.M.

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