Rezko Witness Leaves New Questions about Obama Real Estate Deal Unanswered By Rick Moran
The Bear on Apr 25 2008 at 8:24 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Obama’s connection to a shady Iraqi-born British businessman was confirmed in bombshell Rezko trial testimony on Monday. Who is Nadhmi Auchi and why might Obama be back in hot water over the real estate deal on his house?
The star witness at the Tony Rezko fraud trial in Chicago may have gotten Barack Obama in hot water again over his long term relationship with the Chicago “fixer,” as well as his connection to a shady billionaire who may have played a key role in the real estate deal involving Obama’s home.
Stuart Levine testified that Senator Obama and his wife were guests at Tony Rezko’s house at a party honoring Iraqi-born British billionaire Nadhmi Auchi in early April 2004, according to press reports. This was the second event attended by Obama where Auchi, convicted of fraud in Europe, was the guest of honor. Earlier that month on April 3, Obama met with a group of “Middle East bankers” including Auchi at a reception sponsored by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
There will be many who say this just doesn’t matter: that Obama’s relationship with Auchi, like his relationship with bigoted preacher Jeremiah Wright, like his relationship with Pentagon bombers and domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn, like his relationship with some of the more unsavory elements of the Chicago political machine including Tony Rezko, is all guilt by association and an unfair attack on the candidate.
But the average voter might be asking right about now where does “guilt by association” end and the candidate being guilty of having monumentally bad judgment in picking his associates begin?
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