Rezko, the Illinois Governor and Obama's Senate Replacement

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Rezko, the Illinois Governor and Obama's Senate Replacement

http://buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/146

Submitted by mark karlin on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 2:30pm. EditorBlog

THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG: The View from Chicago

Since the presidential campaign was decided on November 4, the name Tony Rezko has largely vanished from the news. That is because, as BuzzFlash repeatedly reported from our perch in the Windy City, the Rezko case (overseen by Patrick Fitzgerald) is not about Barack Obama, but rather the Feds in hot pursuit of the allegedly "pay to play" Democratic Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.

On December 5th, the Chicago Tribune announced that the Feds had taped Blagojevich recently as he spoke about the Rezko investigation with his former Congressional Chief of Staff, John Wyma (now a lobbyist with big connections; i.e, Blagojevich). Wyma, according to the Tribune (and likely leaked by the Feds as an effort to break loose information from Rezko and other "witnesses") was, as they say, "wired." On December 6th, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a story in which Wyma's attorney appeared to refute the Tribune story, but left enough "parsing of words maneuvering room" to leave one wondering if he was just technically taking issue with the Tribune leak.

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1. not happy that he`s going to pick but...

i`m glad he`s going to be indicted. if the republicans can find a decent candidate the state will have a republican governor....then we will start taking odds on when he/she gets indicted.