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News of Barack Obama’s buddy Tony Rezko the Chicago Real estate Developer and fundraiser for Barack has been found guilty on Federal Corruption charges.

Chicago Sun Times reports:

Tony Rezko the high-flying developer and fast-food magnate who was once a major campaign fund-raiser for Gov. Blagojevich and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and one of the governor’s closest advisers — is now a convicted felon.

A federal jury in Chicago convicted Rezko this afternoon on 16 of 24 charges he faced in a political corruption trial that cast a harsh light on the Blagojevich administration.

The verdict, reached after deliberations that spanned 12 days, could give federal authorities new ammunition in their probe of the governor’s campaign and his administration. They already have subpoenaed Blagojevich’s campaign fund, scrutinized his donors, looked into his wife’s real estate dealings and questioned potential witnesses about whether they were promised anything in return for campaign contributions, sources told the Sun-Times.

Barack had no comment.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s involvement in illegal foreign campaign contributions have been revealed with the disclosure of Clinton’s 11,046 pages of White House activity calendars.

With a large charitable donation in hand, Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady flew to Little Rock to dine with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a 1993 gala honoring her as an “Arkansan of the Year” at a time his company, a multibillion dollar banking conglomerate, was seeking an end to a 30-year trade embargo with Vietnam.

Five days after the March 4, 1993, dinner at the Excelsior Hotel, Mr. Riady took the embargo question directly to President Clinton, saying in a four-page letter that its demise would bring political reforms in that communist country.

By that time, Mr. Riady’s banking conglomerate, the $12 billion Indonesia-based Lippo Group, its subsidiaries and its employees, including his son James and executive John Huang had funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mr. Clinton’s 1992 presidential race and had guaranteed a $3 million last-minute loan to a cash-short Clinton campaign just before the crucial New York primary in 1992.

Within six months of the dinner, the Lippo firm opened its first offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, and a further five months later Mr. Clinton signed an executive order lifting the embargo, which had been in effect since 1964.

The close proximity of Mrs. Clinton’s contact and Mr. Riady’s Little Rock donation to his efforts to lobby for an end to the embargo were never disclosed at the time and only became public with the release last week of 11,046 pages of Mrs. Clinton’s White House activity calendars.

The calendars, released in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based watchdog group, show that Mr. Riady and his wife were among nine people who sat with Mrs. Clinton at the head table. His name is listed next to the notation, “**giving large donation**.”

Hillary Campaign likely response: Let’smove on… That’s old news.

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Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

h/t: Hot Air

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The Truthboating of Hillary Clinton. A damning movie about the Clinton money machine and the corruption that follows the Clintons.

Sorry if you can’t view the video on this page go here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019&pr=goog-sl

First reported here in January 2006

It’s been under the radar for over a year. Could this be the end of Hillary’s campaign. I hope so.

t/b: Stop The ACLU

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A question has been raised about Norman Hsu’s citizenship. Why was ICE involved in hunting him down and finally his capture.

This has been a question circling the blogosphere.

Allah at Hot Air questions Hsu’s Status and finds another Hillary donor that has a criminal history.

As reported here earlier one of the 11 that was arrested on a federal warrant in New Jersey is a major supporter of Clinton. Passiac Mayor SammyRivera .

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