JB PRITZKER CAUGHT ON FBI WIRETAP
November 2008
ROD BLAGOJEVICH
JB PRITZKER
EXPOSED: INSIDER DEALINGS WITH ROD BLAGOJEVICH
http://www.pritzkerblago.com/
Jay Robert "J. B." Pritzker (born January 19, 1965) is an American venture capitalist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. He is a private business owner based in Chicago and a managing partner and co-founder of the Pritzker Group. He is a member of the Pritzker family who own the Hyatt Hotel chain, and has an estimated personal net worth of $3.5 billion.[2]
He is the Democratic Party's nominee for Governor of Illinois in the 2018 election.[3]
Political activities
In the 2008 Presidential election, Pritzker served as national co-chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign and as a delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and the 2016 Democratic National Convention. He supported President Barack Obama in the 2008 general election and helped bring the Clinton and Obama campaigns in Illinois together.[13]
Pritzker founded Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century,[14] a national organization dedicated to attracting voters under the age of 40 to the Democratic Party. He also served on the Washington, D.C. legislative staffs of U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC), U.S. Senator Alan J. Dixon (D-IL), and U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), for whom he handled multiple domestic and international issues.
In 1998, he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois's 9th congressional district, spending a half million dollars from his personal fortune on television ads in the Chicago market.[15] Pritzker finished last among three candidates in the Democratic primary, receiving 20.48% of the vote, to then State Representative Jan Schakowsky's 45.14% and State Senator Howard W. Carroll's 34.40%.[16]
Controversies
Rod Blagojevich FBI wiretap
In May 2017, the Chicago Tribune[29] published an 11-minute FBI wiretap of J. B. Pritzker and then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in 2008 discussing campaign contributions and options for Pritzker to be appointed to statewide office.[30] At the time, Pritzker was described as a "businessman with political ambitions". On the tapes, Blagojevich asked Pritzker if he would like to be appointed state treasurer, to which Pritzker responded, "Yeah, that's the one I would want." The tapes have raised questions of "pay to play politics", with both Republicans and Democrats, including incumbent GOP Governor Bruce Rauner and Pritzker's Democratic primary opponents, taking issue with Pritzker's conduct.[31] Pritzker has responded to the allegations by stating: "I’ve not been accused of any wrongdoing. I have not done anything wrong."[32] No allegations of wrongdoing were ever made by law enforcement against Pritzker, and Pritzker has said: "over decades of my life, I have been doing public service, and the opportunity to continue to do public service as treasurer of the state was something that had been brought up, and so there was a conversation about that."[33]
moar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker