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This is getting interesting.

According to a Federal informant (Robert Cooley, a former criminal defense lawyer in Chicago in the late 80′s whose testimony for federal prosecutors in Chicago resulted in dozens of mob convictions), before Blagojevich got into politics he was a bookmaker on the North Side who regularly paid the Chicago mob to operate.

From ABC Local–Chicago…

“I predicted five years ago when he ran the first time that he was a hands on person who would be selling every position in the state of Illinois and that it exactly what happened,” said Cooley.

Cooley, who secretly recorded conversations in a Counselor’s Row restaurant near City Hall which brought down the first ward leadership, contends Illinois corruption is unstoppable.

Lynn Sweet, writing in today’s Chicago Sun Times, paints a picture of Michelle as a difficult to manage and extremely ambitious employee at Chicago’s preeminent law firm of Sidley, Austin.

There’s that famous Obama/Robinson hubris again! “Hey, what’s in it for MOI!”

From Lynn Sweet’s column, here’s an excerpt from the new Liza Mundy book, Michelle: A Biography (read her article on the Obama in the Washington Post)…

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Obama might have been more active as a Senator than we thought.

Let’s see if this story gains traction. Excerpt and link…

Obama tied to Iraqi government fraud?
by Aaron Klein
WND

JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama’s office engaged in six months of negotiations with a company controlled by convicted criminal Tony Rezko to lobby the U.S. government to push through a nixed $50 million contact to train Iraqi security personnel at a site in Chicago.

The contract was awarded to Rezko’s company while Aiham Alsammarae, a long-time, close Rezko friend and a contributor to Obama’s campaign, served as Iraq’s U.S.-appointed electricity minister.

Rezko was a major Obama fundraiser and associate for two decades.

Alsammarae also awarded another Rezko-controlled operation as part of a $150 million contract to construct a 250-megawatt electricity plant in Iraq.

Alsammarae later was arrested by Iraqi authorities for bilking the coalition government out of some $650 million. He was sprung from prison under questionable circumstances in 2006 and escaped from Iraq, where he is still wanted for questioning with regard to major financial crimes.

The information raises questions into the nature of Obama’s relationship with multiple deals made by Iraq’s Electricity Ministry while Alsammarae was in charge. Obama has ties to Alsammarae and to the recipients of several of the massive contracts Alsammarae handed out.

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Keywords: rezko, Chicago Political Machine, Chicago politics, Iraq, Alsammarae, fraud, Iraq Electricity Ministry, Aiham Alsammarae, Chicago