OBAMA: A CORRUPT CROOK IN DEEP WITH A CORRUPT CHICAGO REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (VIA PAJAMAS MEDIA):

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said Monday he accepted campaign contributions from Antoin "Tony'' Rezko without knowing that Rezko was a slumlord with problem buildings in the state Senate district Obama represented at the time.

"Should I have known these buildings were in a state of disrepair? My answer would be that it wasn't brought to my attention,'' Obama, who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said at a South Side campaign stop.

His comments came in response to a Chicago Sun-Times report that he had done previously undisclosed legal work between 1995 and 1998 on a series of troubled low-income-housing deals involving Rezmar Corp., owned by the indicted businessman.

Obama worked for a small Chicago law firm -- Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland -- between 1993 and 2004. The firm worked on deals that got $43 million in government funds for 15 apartment buildings Rezmar rehabilitated with not-for-profit community groups. Four of the buildings ended up being foreclosed on.

OBAMA IS OBVIOUSLY LYING.

REZKO AND OBAMA ARE VERY CLOSE: REZKO HELPED OBAMA BUY HIS MANSION - JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. WITHOUT REZKO, OBAMA COULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT HIS HOME.

WE BLOGGED ABOUT THIS CORRUPT DEAL - OBAMAGATE - HERE - DECEMBER 17, 2006.

MORE ABOUT WHAT A SC*MBAG OBAMA IS HERE.