>>8179800 pb
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDVQe5iRiPw
>>8181815 lb
>Federal investigation into corruption that "caught" Blagojevich was called "Operation Board Games"
>>8182237 lb
>blago and governor blunt had a HUGE bridge deal
>also blago was mixed up with loop capital
https://www.propublica.org/article/you-dont-know-burris-090116
Politicians and the media largely have portrayed Sen. Roland Burris as an upstanding public official. As Barack Obama described his replacement in the Senate, Burris is a "good man and a fine public servant."
But Burris' record as state attorney general contradicts this squeaky clean image. It shows Burris to be more like a stereotypical Illinois politician: He steered state business to friends, gave state jobs to family and later, as a private lobbyist, benefited from his political ties.
Before Burris left for Washington, state Republicans gave him a confirmation hearing of sorts. Republican state Rep. Jim Durkin subpoenaed Burris to testify before an Illinois House panel investigating Gov. Blagojevich, who appointed Burris to the Senate. (The FBI arrested Blagojevich last month for trying to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat for personal benefits.)
As we reported yesterday, even before there was a Senate seat for Burris to covet, he and Blagojevich were partners in politics. Burris has donated more than $20,000 to Blagojevich, worked on his campaign and in 2006 held a 3,000-person fundraiser for the governor, who had already been under federal investigation for two years.
And in 2003, the Blagojevich administration awarded $753,800 in pension bond business to Loop Capital Markets, a Chicago investment bank and a Burris client.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-viii-obamas-state-pension-scheme
State Sen. Barack Obama and members of an Illinois lobbying group representing politically connected minority-owned businesses launched a campaign in 2000 to pressure state pension funds to help their friends and donors.
Obama and his cohorts targeted state officials in charge of pension funds for teachers, police and firemen, and regular government employees.
William Atwood, executive director of the giant Illinois State Board of Investment, or ISBI, told The Washington Examiner that Obama was relentless in applying pressure.
"Anytime I saw him, he brought the issue up. I would see him in Springfield or I would see him at a function and invariably he raised the issue," Atwood said.
John Rogers, Ariel Capital Management's CEO, and James Reynolds, founder of Loop Capital, were ABLE leaders and longtime Obama supporters. Louis A. Holland, chairman of Holland Capital Management, was also an ABLE leader and Obama donor.
The campaign succeeded in early 2001 when more than $500 million from the pension funds was transferred to Ariel and Holland, and Loop was retained as a brokerage firm, according to pension fund documents obtained by the Examiner. The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois, or SURS, awarded Ariel $49 million, while Holland got $26 million. Loop handled the trading of 2.3 million shares, according to SURS documents obtained by the Examiner.
Patrick Fitzgerald revealed in federal court proceedings that Rogers had given $22,500 to bundler Tony Rezko, who was later convicted of influence peddling.
Rogers' money was destined for the campaign of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who, like Rezko, is now serving a federal prison sentence for public corruption. No charges were ever filed against Rogers in connection with the $22,500.
Rogers remains an Obama confidant. He has visited the White House at least 37 times since Obama's 2009 inauguration for both business and social meetings with the president, senior aides in the White House and the first lady.
>Noose is tightening around Hussein
>Rogers had given $22,500 to bundler Tony Rezko
>Rogers' money was destined for the campaign of Gov. Rod Blagojevich,
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chapter-ix-the-arab-american-network-behind-obama
Rezko is now serving a 10-year federal prison sentence following his convictions on federal fraud and bribery charges related to disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich and state contracting.
Rezko offered Obama a job at his Rezmar Corp. after he finished at Harvard Law School, but the new lawyer instead accepted a position at a Chicago firm with close personal and professional ties to Rezko. Their relationship steadily deepened in the years thereafter.
While he was in the Illinois Senate, Obama helped key Rezko associates gain appointments to the state board that controlled health facility contracting for building expansions.
Once his associates were appointed, Rezko sought kickbacks from contractors favored by his friends in a process that became the heart of the federal case against him.
When Obama became chairman of the state Senate health committee that oversaw appointments to the medical board, among his first acts was to gain fast-track passage of a bill to reduce the board from 15 to nine members, thus making it somewhat easier to gain the panel's approval for contracts.
Rezko then used his connections with Blagojevich to stack the restructured board with his political cronies. Their appointments were confirmed by Obama's committee, then sent to the Senate floor.
Soon thereafter, contributions from Rezko and his health board allies began pouring into Obama's campaign coffers, according to federal and state campaign finance data.
https://qanon.pub/?q=loop%20capital
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: c9daa0 No.8091
Jan 6 2018 16:07:34 (EST)
DO NOT LOSE FOCUS ON LOOP CAPITAL.
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