Uh-Oh, Eric Holder and Blogojevich caught in bed together

Holder holding out on Blagojevich connections

Up to now, the only member of the incoming Obama administration worried about ties to Rod Blagojevich was Rahm Emanuel. Today, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that another key appointment by Barack Obama hasn’t told the complete truth about his work for the disgraced governor of Illinois. Eric Holder, who already will face questions about his role in the controversial Marc Rich pardon and the deportation of Elian Gonzales, left off a key role on his resumé:

Before Eric Holder was President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be attorney general, he was Gov. Blagojevich’s pick to sort out a mess involving Illinois’ long-dormant casino license.

Blagojevich and Holder appeared together at a March 24, 2004, news conference to announce Holder’s role as “special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board” — a post that was to pay Holder and his Washington, D.C. law firm up to $300,000.

Holder, however, omitted that event from his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire made public this week — an oversight he plans to correct after a Chicago Sun-Times inquiry, Obama’s transition team indicated late Tuesday.

Team Obama claims that Holder merely forgot about this part of his work experience, but that doesn’t wash. Holder completed the questionnaire after Blagojevich’s arrest on December 9th. With all of the attendant publicity, how likely was it that Holder forgot his work with Blagojevich — especially on casino investigations, where one might expect to find a cesspool of corruption?

Not bloody likely. It looks a lot more like Holder wanted to minimize his connections to Blagojevich and hoped people would forget about it. Reading the Sun-Times report, it’s easy to see why, too. Blagojevich had named crony and fundraiser Christopher Kelly to the Gaming Board, who would later face charges of corruption. Kelly’s business partner was Tony Rezko. Remember him? He’s the man singing to the feds about corruption in Illinois after being convicted on multiple counts of corruption himself. Kelly and Rezko had interests connected to the Rosemount casino; they had options on land next to the site to build a hotel.

The Gaming Board refused to hire Holder, concerned about his connections to Blagojevich and his apparent mandate to make sure that Kelly and Rezko got their casino. That’s the verdict from retired FBI agent and Gaming Board commissioner Jim Wagner, who said that they viewed Holder’s appointment as a means to secure the interests of Rezko, Kelly, and Blagojevich. Wagner wants the Senate Judiciary Committee to probe Holder’s relationship to Blagojevich in this manner — and that gives a clear explanation of Holder’s omission on his questionnaire.

Remember that cesspool of corruption I mentioned? Looks like it existed after all — and the corruptocrat Blagojevich felt comfortable in appointing Holder to look after his interests, and Kelly’s, and Rezko’s. Maybe we should find out why.
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Chicago-Sun Times article ..
Holder omitted Blagojevich link from questionnaire :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich

Holder was vetted by Obama .. AND Obama knows Chicago/Illinois politics.

Why didn't Obama know this?

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It is a safe assumption that a politician coming out of one of the most politically corrupt states is corrupt.

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Fixed.

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You can't be a pimp and a prostitute too

thanks

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You can't be a pimp and a prostitute too

It is a safe assumption that you don't know shit.

There's no doubt in my mind that Obama would certainly have been aware of Holder's presence in such a capacity. Like anyone who would consider running for Senate, much less presidency, ambition is characteristic of the man. Nothing wrong with that, but in politics, by definition one always is aware of where the power is, in this country it's at the national level. Holder is and was there, well before Barack.

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It's a safe assumption you can't think for yourself and believe everything you're told

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Once again we find Tony Rezko in the middle of the soup. How is it a guy could be in so much soup and be next door neighbors with a conveniently politically powerful Obama, and Obama's not in the soup, he's never see the soup, if there was soup, and he can't confirm that there ever was any soup, because he didn't know about it, didn't hear about and didn't know anybody who'd even had soup. Well, he knew somebody who had soup, but he didn't know that he'd had. Well really, he was deep in the soup, but he didn't know he was in any soup, after all he never came to his house with soup.

Geezz! Is anyone buying this?

This is like a meeting I was in this week. The mayor's schedule was thrown off because they couldn't build in the rain, but everyone kept insisting that construction would be done by 12/31, "weather permitting." Like they didn't know 5 days of rain were predicted over the next 5 days.

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Obama lied, hope died

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Nice response.

I am not fond of Holder, but Obama is about as clean as a politician gets.

All this guilt by association stuff gets old after a while.

I'm not saying Obama is guilty of anything, but it's one thing if you know some guy that turns out to be a bad guy somehow. OK, whatever.

But, when damned near everyone you know and have been close to for ten to twenty years is a bad guy, I think it is fair for people to start looking into these guys. Not Obama per se, as you say, no evidence he is guilty of anything. But, it's fair to investigate Rezko, Obama real estate partner, Blago, the guy Obama helped strategize into office and the guy Obama campaigned for on many occasions. The troubling thing is these relationships are not tangential, they are central. Maybe he's not guilty of anything, but he's far from clean. You can't get that close to mud and be clean.

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it's all they have Chris so you might want to get used to it.

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Or you could respond to my post.

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I haven't associated anyone with Obama.

I just said it is a reasonable assumption that a politician who heralds from the most corrupt political machine in the country is corrupt. To what degree is to be discovered but i am confident that it will be.

We already have implications of corruption and of course BHO will come out clean. it just remains to be sen who the fall guy will be.

Are you so naive to think that BHO or one of his lackeys had no discussion with blago about BHO's senate seat?

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