Going to need some halp with this one. Archived article from May 2008 that ties Blago, Bummer and a bunch of Iraqi dual nationals together. Author refers to Bummer as "Wizard of Oz".

Article here: http://archive.fo/kKicO#selection-459.1-438.24

"The investigation called "Operation Board Games" will lead to Obama's downfall and it will begin with what he claims was a "boneheaded" mistake in entering into real estate deal with the Syrian-born immigrant, Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, less than a month after Rezko received a $3.5 million loan from the Iraqi-born billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who ended up with Riverside Park, a $2.5 billion 62-acre development project in the Chicago Loop.

Obama set his sights on a $2 million mansion the month after he was elected to the US Senate. It's now known that Rezko got involved in the house-buying endeavor early on, although his involvement would not known until November 2006, the month after Rezko’s indictment was unsealed in the Operation Board Games case.

Nadhmi Auchi owns General Mediterranean Holdings, a Luxemburg-based conglomerate with investments all over the world in everything from Iraq reconstruction contracts to pharmaceuticals to pizza parlors.

>>8186779 Moar from the article:

In gathering comments for his column, Kass called former US Senator, Peter Fitzgerald, who Kass describes as “the Republican maverick from Illinois who tried to fight political corruption and paid for it. For this sin, he was driven out of Illinois politics by political bosses, by their spinners and media mouthpieces, who ridiculed him mercilessly.”

He asked the Senator, “what do you call that connection that Stuart Levine describes from the witness stand, you know that arrangement across party lines, with politically powerful men leveraging government to make money—what do you call it?”

"The Illinois Combine," he said. "The bipartisan Illinois political combine.”

“And all these guys being mentioned, they're part of it," he told Kass.

"In the final analysis,” the Senator said, “The Combine's allegiance is not to a party, but to their pocketbooks.”

“They're about making money off the taxpayers," he added.

According to Kass, “the Rezko trial is part of the U.S. Justice Department's attack on The Combine.”

“The "Operation Board Games" investigation is about how appointments to state boards and commissions overseeing state pension fund investments and hospital construction were leveraged into paydays for the insiders,” he explains.