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An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment

By CHRISTOPHER DREW and MIKE McINTIRE

June 14, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/politics/14rezko.html?

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CHICAGO — Antoin Rezko, an entrepreneur of considerable charm who found riches in fast food and real estate, is known around Chicago as a collector of politicians.

Back in the 1990s, Mr. Rezko’s office was adorned with framed photos of candidates he viewed as up-and-comers. Among them was Barack Obama, a state legislator whose first campaign donations included $2,000 from Mr. Rezko’s companies. As Mr. Obama built a career that carried him to the Senate in 2004, Mr. Rezko was there with him, holding fund-raisers and rallying support.

Last fall, Mr. Rezko was indicted on federal charges of business fraud and influence peddling involving the administration of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, whose picture was also on Mr. Rezko’s wall. Since then, Mr. Obama, a Democrat, has had to answer questions about a land deal with Mr. Rezko’s wife, Rita, and about other ties to him.

Since early June, Mr. Obama has given to charity more than $21,000 in donations that his Senate campaign had received from Rezko associates now linked to the federal inquiries. He gave away $11,500 from Mr. Rezko himself last fall.

Mr. Obama says he never did any favors for Mr. Rezko,

who raised about $150,000 for his campaigns over the years and was once one of the most powerful men in Illinois.

...interviews with more than a dozen political and business associates suggest that the two men were closer than the senator has indicated.

Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.

And when Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, bought a house in 2005, Mr. Rezko stepped in again. Even though his finances were deteriorating, Mr. Rezko arranged for his wife to buy an adjacent lot, and she later sold the Obamas a 10-foot-wide strip of land that expanded their yard.

The land sale occurred after it had been reported that Mr. Rezko was under federal investigation. That awkward fact prompted Mr. Obama, who has cast himself as largely free from the normal influences of politics, to express regret over what he called his own bad judgment.

In one instance, when he was running for the Senate, Mr. Obama stopped by to shake hands while Mr. Rezko, an immigrant from Syria, was entertaining Middle Eastern bankers considering an investment in one of his projects.

[Years earlier, as a state legislator, Mr. Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting efforts by Mr. Rezko and a partner to build apartments for the elderly with $14 million in government money, The Chicago Sun-Times reported in its June 13 editions. The developers received $855,000 in fees.]

Mr. Rezko, whose politics were more practical than partisan, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democrats, in particular Mr. Blagojevich, who gave Mr. Rezko’s associates state jobs and contracts. He also raised money for Republicans, including President Bush.

Mr. Rezko sometimes got involved in the private lives of

the officials he backed. Governor Blagojevich’s wife, Patti, did real estate work for him...

By the 1990s, Mr. Rezko was developing low-income housing. One of his partners spotted a news item about Mr. Obama’s being the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and offered him a job. Mr. Obama decided to join a law firm, where he later spent several hours on work involving Mr. Rezko’s housing developments.

Mr. Rezko also owned dozens of pizza and Chinese food franchises, as well as commercial real estate projects. And after he raised $500,000 for Mr. Blagojevich’s election in 2002, Mr. Rezko became the man to see for state appointments.

In addition to enlisting his huge circle of donors, Mr. Rezko and Mr. Obama talked frequently about campaign developments during the Senate race, Mr. Rezko’s associates said. Many of the donors also contributed to Mr. Blagojevich, and several have been linked to the federal charges against Mr. Rezko. One indictment accuses him of seeking payoffs from companies doing business with state boards, another with fraud in his business dealings.

Several other Rezko associates who contributed to the Senate campaign were appointed to the state boards that Mr. Rezko is accused of influencing.

While Mr. Obama was running for the Senate, Mr. Rezko was also raising money for a huge development in the South Loop of Chicago, often playing host to dinners in a private room at the Four Seasons Hotel here.

Former Rezko associates said that Governor Blagojevich attended one of the dinners, and that at Mr. Rezko’s request, Mr. Obama dropped in at one for Middle Eastern bankers in early 2004, just as he was starting to pull ahead in the Senate primary.

By 2004, Mr. Rezko’s pizza restaurants were in trouble, and creditors were suing him. Yet after the Obamas bid $1.65 million for their house in January 2005, Mr. Rezko got involved. Mr. Obama has said that he mentioned the deal to Mr. Rezko.

People familiar with the transaction said that the sellers did not want to close until that June 15, and that the sale would go through only if someone bought the adjacent lot from them on the same date. Rita Rezko paid $625,000 to outbid others for the lot and later sold the Obamas one-sixth of that land, for $104,500.

 

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Justice Dept. Reshapes Its Civil Rights Mission

By NEIL A. LEWIS

June 14, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/washington/14discrim.html?

_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print

 

WASHINGTON, June 13 — In recent years, the Bush administration has recast the federal government’s role in civil rights by aggressively pursuing religion-oriented cases while significantly diminishing its involvement in the traditional area of race.

Paralleling concerns of many conservative groups, the Justice Department has successfully argued in a number of cases that government agencies, employers or private organizations have improperly suppressed religious expression in situations that the Constitution’s drafters did not mean to restrict.

“Not until recently has anyone in the department considered religious discrimination such a high priority,” Professor Landsberg said. “No one had ever considered it to be of the same magnitude as race or national origin.”

The changes are evident in a variety of actions:

¶Intervening in federal court cases on behalf of religion-based groups like the Salvation Army that assert they have the right to discriminate in hiring in favor of people who share their beliefs even though they are running charitable programs with federal money.

¶Supporting groups that want to send home religious literature with schoolchildren; in one case, the government helped win the right of a group in Massachusetts to distribute candy canes as part of a religious message that the red stripes represented the blood of Christ.

¶Vigorously enforcing a law enacted by Congress in 2000 that allows churches and other places of worship to be free of some local zoning restrictions. The division has brought more than two dozen lawsuits on behalf of churches, synagogues and mosques.

¶Taking on far fewer hate crimes and cases in which local law enforcement officers may have violated someone’s civil rights. The resources for these traditional cases have instead been used to investigate trafficking cases, typically involving foreign women used in the sex trade, a favored issue of the religious right.

¶Sharply reducing the complex lawsuits that challenge voting plans that might dilute the strength of black voters. The department initiated only one such case through the early part of this year, compared with eight in a comparable period in the Clinton administration.

Along with its changed civil rights mission, the department has also tried to overhaul the roster of government lawyers who deal with civil rights. The agency has transferred or demoted some experienced civil rights litigators while bringing in lawyers, including graduates of religious-affiliated law schools and some people vocal about their faith, who favor the new priorities. That has created some unease, with some career lawyers disdainfully referring to the newcomers as “holy hires.”

 

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House grinds to a halt in rift over earmarks

Republicans stall Homeland Security spending bill

Thursday, June 14, 2007

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/14/MNGK4QESUB1.DTL

(06-14) 04:00 PDT Washington -- For the second straight day, minority House Republicans ground the House to a standstill Wednesday as they drove home their objections to a Democratic plan to deny a floor vote on lawmakers' thousands of pet projects.

Charges of hypocrisy flew in floor speeches as House leaders huddled behind closed doors to seek a way out of a dispute that Republicans said showed Democrats led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi had backed down on promises of openness and disclosure made when they took power last January.

Democrats had hoped this week to pass four of the 12 annual bills that pay for federal operations beginning Oct. 1. Instead, Republicans have offered 116 amendments to a $37.4 billion Homeland Security spending bill -- the first of the bills on the floor -- in a bid to stall it. And on Tuesday they offered repeated motions to adjourn the House, each requiring a vote, keeping a wary House in session until 2:10 a.m. Wednesday.

But Republicans cried foul over a plan by Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., for the House to pass all of the dozen spending bills without any earmarks.

Obey said House members from both parties -- even while expressing concern about rising government spending -- had inundated his committee with 33,000 earmark requests. He said it would take the committee's staff four weeks to study all those pork barrel requests and pare them to a manageable level.

But once the House-Senate conferees agree on a final bill, the rules of the House and Senate bar members from amending the legislation to remove individual items. That means, the Republicans charge, that Obey alone will decide on billions of dollars of federal spending affecting projects in practically every House district.

When Democrats took over the House last January, they passed rules saying that members behind all earmarks had to be identified, and that earmarks on all spending bills would be identified "before members are asked to vote on them," as Rules Committee Chairwoman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., told the House.


THE COMMITTEE SAYS:

Dems and Republicans play HOT POTATO over Earmarks: Both want them, but Neither wants Oversight or Responsibility

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Corruption Updates 3, “Media Reports: Both Parties Corrupt

Corruption Updates 5, 1st article on page, “Corruption fails as Campaign issue...

Corruption Updates 14, 10th article down on page. “Murtha trades his vote, and ethics, for pork

Pelosi does earmarks well and often, LA Times, 11-13-06, “Speaker-to-be is no stranger to earmarking,” (abstract at LA Times archive, #52 under Richard Simon search)

Corruption Updates 19, 1st article on page, “TOP RECIPEINTS OF LOBBYISTS BRIBES ARE LEADERSHIP OF BOTH PARTIES”

Corruption Updates 19, 3rd article on page, “PARTIES AND THEIR BRIBERS WORK TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE RESTRICTION”

Corruption Updates 20, 1st article on page, 10-25-06, “PELOSI FUNRAISING FRENZY ASSURES SPECIAL INTEREST DOMINATION OF GOVERNMENT INDEPENDENT OF WHICH SIDE WINS IN NOV”

Corruption Updates 20, 6th article on page, 10-27-06, “DEMS RECEIVE SPECIAL INTEREST BRIBES ANTICIPATING VICTORY IN NOV VOTERS ASSURED ONLY CHANGE AFTER NOVEMBER WILL BE WHICH PARTY GETS 60% OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST BRIBES, AND WHICH PARTY GETS 40% OF THE BRIBES

Corruption Updates 21, 2nd article on page, 10-30-06: “SHADOW PARTIES (527S) INFUSE MILLIONS IN BRIBE MONEY INTO ELECTION SPECIAL INTERESTS SKIRT CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS TO MAINTAIN THEIR ILLIGIMATE AUTHORITY THROUGH POLITICAL BRIBERY

Corruption Updates 21, 8fh article on page, 11-1-06: “DEMS BIG CHANCE TO REAP THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION POLITICAL VICTORY OPENS DOORS OF LOBBYING FIRMS TO DEMO INSIDERS: IT'S THE DEMS TURN TO ROB THE PUBLIC BLIND, AND BETRAY OUR DEMOCRACY

Corruption Updates 22, 6th article on page, “MONEY WINS IN ALMOST EVERY POLITICAL RACE”

Corruption Updates 24, 6th article on page, 12-4-06, “POLITICIANS WHO BRIBE POLITICIANS ARE LEADERS UNCONTESTED CANDIDATES REDISTRIBUTE BRIBE MONEY TO BUY PLUM COMMITTEES AND CHAIRMANSHIPS

Corruption Updates 26, 1st article on page, 12-8-06, “LOBBYISTS SEE NO CHANGE UNDER DEMS CORRUPTION PRESENTED AS FORCE OF NATURE, DEM CORRUPTION NATURAL

Corruption Updates 27, 2nd article on page, “DEM LEADERS TO REFORM CONGRESS?”

Corruption Updates 28, 1st article on page, 1-2-07: “LOBBYISTS HIRING-BRIBING DEMS SHIFTING FUNDS AND PERSONELL TO DEMS ASSURES NO REAL CHANGES

Corruption Updates 28, 4th article on page, “Bush and Dems Fight Over Earmarks”

Corruption Updates 30, 2nd article on page, “Democrats set back on earmarks” (REID TRIES TO KILL REAL EARMARK REFORMS)

Corruption Updates 33, 4th article on page, “Lobbyists find new Congress is open for business”

 

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Fundraiser allegedly demanded stock

Now awaiting trial, businessman is said to have sought interests in firms he introduced to a top Democratic official.

By Robin Fields and Chuck Neubauer
Times Staff Writers

June 14, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jinnah14jun14,0,7027689,full.story?coll=la-home-nation

From the Los Angeles Times



When Southern California businessman Ray Jinnah

surfaced after more than a year as a fugitive to face charges of arranging illegal campaign contributions, he appeared weak and lost, collapsing during a brief federal court hearing last month.

That summer, when the Democratic National Convention unfolded in Los Angeles, Jinnah hobnobbed with the Clintons and other VIPs while acting as a broker for at least two companies trying to curry favor with the party, interviews and records obtained by the Los Angeles Times show.

His aid came at a price. In exchange for helping an
Orange County software startup become one of 16 convention technology partners, Jinnah demanded a large block of stock for himself and another to be split among four Democratic fundraisers, the company's founder said.

Jinnah also tried to acquire a piece of another company, a Kentucky-based alternative-energy venture, promising his connections could help pave the way to federal contracts. "He said, 'I can do this for you,' " said Henry Creque IV, chief executive of now-defunct Pure Energy. "He knew people."


Jinnah's current legal troubles arise from his fundraising activities in 2004, when prosecutors say he violated federal law by reimbursing employees and associates for nearly $60,000 in donations made in their names to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political action committee, HillPac, and California Sen. Barbara Boxer's reelection campaign.

Authorities allege he fled the country after being indicted in May 2006, taking refuge in his native
Pakistan.

Fundraisers and business associates have depicted the August 2000 Democratic convention as Jinnah's coming-out party.

He contributed $100,000 to the event's host committee, campaign finance records show, enough to quality for a "convention passport" to exclusive parties attended by the Clintons and presidential candidate Al Gore. On the convention's eve, Jinnah donated an additional $25,000 to attend the star-studded "Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton," a million-dollar benefit for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.

"He was kind of the new guy," one Democratic fundraiser recalled. "He was giving to everybody."

At the same time, friends and business associates say, Jinnah worked to parlay his burgeoning political connections into business opportunities.
Jinnah promised Khan a chance to demonstrate his wares in the Staples Center suite of convention chairman Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic fundraiser extraordinaire who is among the Clintons' closest friends. Jinnah presented Khan with a Time magazine autographed by McAuliffe as proof of his access.

"A.J. Khan — To a great Democrat and Supporter," McAuliffe scrawled beside an article about himself, headlined "The Kingmaker." "Best Wishes, Terry McAuliffe,
7/11/00."

Khan said Jinnah spelled out what he wanted in return: 1 million shares in the privately held company, which Khan assigned to Jinnah four days after Jinnah said Cyrsh had sewn up a slot at the convention, records show. Khan said he also split another million shares as dictated by Jinnah, writing stock certificates in the names of McAuliffe and three other Democratic fundraisers, as well as several of Jinnah's relatives.


...McAuliffe — now chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign campaign — denied receiving the stock. The Times obtained a copy of a stock certificate showing 10,000 shares in the name of Scott Freda, a fundraiser and McAuliffe associate. Freda said he recalled Jinnah promising stock to him, but never receiving it.

Jinnah had confided to Khan that he hoped to be rewarded if the Democrats won, perhaps with a position in the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The following month, he hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his home in Northridge. He also attended a night of music at the White House, giving expensive gifts to the first family that President Clinton acknowledged with a personal note, prosecutors said at Jinnah's court hearing.
"Thank you so much for the exquisite crystal globe and the beautiful Italian fountain pen set for Hillary. Thanks, too, for the wonderful digital video camera for Chelsea," Clinton wrote in the note, dated Feb. 12, 2001.

Khan, too, grew disillusioned with Jinnah. In October 2000, Khan wrote an angry four-page letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew describing Jinnah's unkept promises and demanding the return of all Cyrsh stock assigned to Jinnah and others. Andrew and DNC officials said they have no record of receiving the letter.
Jinnah reemerged in 2004, when he and his family contributed $122,000 to Democratic candidates and causes, and raised funds for
Clinton, Boxer, presidential candidate John F. Kerry, then-Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn and then-L.A. City Council President Alex Padilla.

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Coporate Democrat web of Corruption Exposed

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Corruption Updates 20, 6th article on page,"Dems Woo Buisness Groups"

Corruption Updates 33, 2nd article on page, "Corporate Democrats of the Democratic Leadership Council Laughs at democracy"

Corruption Updates 34, 11th article on page, "In cash race, Clinton context is lacking"

Corruption Updates 62, 6th article on page, "Suit Sheds Light on Clintons’ Ties to a Corporate Benefactor"

Corruption Updates 62, 10th article on page, "Clinton:Pakistani businessman, donor to Dems, returns to U.S. to face charges"

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Britain's highest court upholds detainees' rights

The ruling in the case involving the death of an Iraqi recognizes that people in British custody anywhere are protected.

By Alicia Lozano
Times Staff Writer

June 14, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-detain14jun14,0,3280598.story?coll=la-home-world

From the Los Angeles Times



LONDONBritain's highest court sent a stern message to the country's military Wednesday, ruling that detainees held in British facilities throughout the world are protected under both the European Convention on Human Rights and British laws.

The Law Lords upheld an appeal by the father of Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old detainee in
Iraq who died in British custody. Mousa sustained 93 injuries, including broken ribs and a broken nose, lawyers for his family said.

Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, a human rights organization that helped bring the case to court, said at a news conference: "There could now never be a British Guantanamo. The British will never be able to build a prison anywhere in the world and say it is a legal black hole."
British troops detained Mousa in 2003 while he was working as a receptionist at a Basra hotel. He was taken to a military base where he was "brutally beaten by British troops," according to court documents.

He later died of injuries sustained during "conditioning," during which troops tortured him to make interrogation more effective, Mousa's lawyers said.

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British Defy US on Human Rights: Insists Prisnors Have Rights

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Corruption Updates 21, 7th article on page, “Ex-judges: Detainee law unconstitutional

Corruption Updates 23, 9th article on page, "TIMES SOFTPEDALS PRESIDENTIAL WAR CRIMES AND DOMESTIC CRIMES"

Corruption Updates 25, 7th article on page, 12-6-06, “Italy Seeks Indictments of C.I.A. Operatives in Egyptian’s Abduction

Corruption Updates 31, 1st article on page, 1-17-07, “AG criticizes judges for terror rulings

Corruption Updates 31, 2nd and 3rd articles on page, “Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Indefensible,” and “A Bush appointee's crude gambit on detainees' legal rights”

Corruption Updates 31, 7th article on page, ““DETANIEE” TORTURE, HEARSAY, AND NO HABIUS CORPUS:CRIMINALS ARE RUNNING THE COURTS

Corruption Updates 31, 8th article on page, 1-19-07, “Pentagon sets rules for detainee trials”

Corruption Updates 34, 4th article on page, “BUSH KIDNAPPING ON TRIAL IN GERMANY: WHY IS GERMANY HOLDING US TO THE RULE OF LAW?”

Corruption Updates 34, 8th article on the page, "HABIUS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW CURBED, JUDICIAL REVIEW DENIED TO “DETAINEES:” KIDNAPP VICTIMS HAVE NO RECOURSE

Corruption Updates 38, 2nd article on page, “Legal experts rap media ban at Gitmo"

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Gov. aims for healing, hits a snag with Latino journalists

By Louis Sahagun
Times Staff Writer

June 14, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-latino14jun14,0,7400936.story?coll=la-home-center

From the Los Angeles Times



SAN JOSE — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's views about civilian border patrols, immigration reform and undocumented immigrants were put to the test Wednesday when he was grilled by Latino journalists gathered for an annual convention.

...National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists' 25th anniversary convention...

The governor drew gasps from some of the 700 people in the audience by suggesting that undocumented immigrants "have got to turn off the Spanish-language television" programs in order to learn English.

"I know it sounds odd, and I may be getting myself in trouble for saying this," Schwarzenegger said before launching into a retelling of his own struggle to master English. "I got rid of the television set and learned."

He added: "Even in the state capital, so many Latinos speak Spanish all the time."

Some Latino leaders have faulted Schwarzenegger in the past for his endorsement of Minutemen on the United States side of the Mexican border and his vetoes of laws allowing illegal immigrants to have driver's licenses.
For example, he clarified having once endorsed sealing the border, when he actually meant to support proposals for securing the border.

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Arnie Chides Corporate Slaves for not being Americans

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Study finds huge decreases in bird populations

Many species commonly found in California have declined in number by as much as 96%, largely because of shrinking habitats.

By Alison Williams
Times Staff Writer

8:42 AM PDT, June 14, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-birds15jun15,0,283988.story?coll=la-home-local

From the Los Angeles Times



Many bird species commonly found in California have suffered steep population declines, as much as 96%, part of a nationwide trend that is due in large part to diminished habitat, according to a study that for the first time combines 40 years of data.

The study, combining the National Audubon Society's Christmas season bird counts with summertime surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey, documented declines of 75 to 96% in several
California species, including the Northern Pintail, Horned Lark, and Loggerhead Shrike.

Keith Pardieck, national director of the USGS survey, said his agency has noticed a significant decline in grassland birds in many parts of the country over the last decade.

"The bigger question of the long run," Chisholm added, "is how does global climate change have an impact on these habitats."

Langham said the study points to the likelihood of similar declines in plants and other animals. "Birds are much more easily surveyed than mammals because they are out in the daytime, they are visual, they sing songs, they are easy on the senses," he said. "The declines across so many [bird] species in different habitats underscores the breadth of the problems facing birds and other wildlife."

The USGS survey has taken place since 1967, and the Christmas Bird Counts for more than 100 years.


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Irresponsible Growth sparks Bird Genocide

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