The Al Copone Approach to Getting Rod Blagojevich

The Chicago Sun-Times features on its Sunday front page an article about federal law enforcement agents putting intense investigatory efforts into how the governor and his wife Patti paid for a $90,000 addition to the Chicago home.

They are keying in what Blagojevich former buddy and big time fund raiser Tony Rezko, now convicted felon facing more trials in the future.

The addition was built right after Blagojevich took office, in 2003.

Blagojevich was flying high.

His wife earned $47,000 real estate commission, as the Sun-Times put it, “from a Rezko land deal.”

And the killer paragraph:

“During Rezko’s corruption trial earlier this year, a former top Blagojevich aide, Ali D. Ata, testified he delivered a plastic bag filled with $25,000 to Rezko to prevent subcontractors from placing a lien on the governor’s home because they had not been paid.”

Hey, the income tax evasion worked with Chicago gangster Al Capone.

Why not try it on the Governor?


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