the rezko/obama/blagoj connection  any boomers here remember the 2008 election scandals involving obama's connections to tony rezko? people involved were > obama > blagojevich  > valerie jarrett > rahm emmanuel > pritzker > the list goes on basically tony rezko was a big shot donor and fixer in chicago politics, and the scandal was first centered around why he helped obama buy an expensive house. rezko also owned slum buildings in obama's illinois senate district and received millions in subsidies for his buildings, naturally the money evaporated and the buildings remained slums. the buildings were also managed by a company valerie jarett was involved with. this slumlord connection was first brought up by hillary clinton during a democratic primary debate tony rezko was also a huge donor to illinois governor rod blagojevich, which allowed rezko to put alot of his friends in blagojevich's administration. rezko then went around receiving kickbacks from various businesses that had gained regulatory approval from the blagojevich administration. this is what rezko went to jail for blagojevich later went to prison for attempting to sell obama's vacant senate seat. he alleges that it was either obama or rahm emmanuel's people that had approached him about selling it, but it's still disputed to this day. chicago politics is a fucking mess, and the blagojevich investigation became the first scandal of obama's administration since obama was very close to the whole illinois political machine and had to give an interview to the fbi, which remains sealed current governor of illinois tony pritzker was also involved, as he was the other speaker on the wiretap that got blagojevich convicted   y6wr9xku blagojevich ended up doing 10 years in prison until trump pardoned him, and still feels he took the fall so that obama could avoid scandal and become president. rezko did 15 years for various corruption charges
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