Saddam and Auchi
"Allow me to introduce you to Nadhmi Auchi. He was charged in the 1950s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, when the future tyrant was acquiring his taste for blood. He was investigated in the 1980s for his part in alleged bribes to the fabulously corrupt leaders of post-war Italy. In the 1990s, the Belgium Ambassador to Luxembourg claimed that Auchi's bank held money Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi had stolen from their luckless peoples. In 2002, officers from the Serious Fraud Squad raided the offices of one of Auchi's drug companies as part of an investigation of what is alleged to be the biggest swindle ever of the NHS."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2 763,1086487,00.html
Auchi and Rezko
"A firm founded by shopping mall mogul Edward J. DeBartolo Jr. is planning a $750-million retail and housing project on part of an expansive South Loop site that Chicago developer Antoin S. "Tony" Rezko gave up last year."
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"Last fall Mr. Rezko's partnership sold the property for $130.5 million to a company led by Iraqi-born British billionaire Nadhmi Auchi."
Auchi and Rezko gets FBI upset
"An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke."
"Obama actually represented partners of Rezko's company in government-subsidized apartment rehabilitation projects, not Rezko himself. Obama says he did no more than five or six hours of work for the partners."
"An FBI affidavit said Rezko actually received $3.5 million from a Lebanon-based bank account of General Mediterranean Holdings, a Luxembourg company owned by London-based Iraqi billionaire Adhmi Auchi. Rezko's attorney said Rezko has had business dealings with Auchi."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/28 /indicted-obama-fundraiser_n_83674.html? load=1&page=2
"Two years ago, Obama bought a mansion on the South Side, in the Kenwood neighborhood, from a doctor. On the same day, Rezko's wife, Rita Rezko, bought the vacant lot next door from the same seller. The doctor had listed the properties for sale together. He sold the house to Obama for $300,000 below the asking price. The doctor got his asking price on the lot from Rezko's wife.
Last year, Rita Rezko sold a strip of that vacant lot to Obama for $104,500 -- a deal Obama later apologized for, acknowledging that people might think he got a favor from Rezko. Obama called the episode "boneheaded'' and a "mistake.''
At the time Obama bought that strip of land, it had been reported that Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling involving the administration of Blagojevich, whose campaign also received Rezko's financial support."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/35382
9,CST-NWS-rez23.article
"In addition to a land deal, Sen. Barack Obama's ties to indicted dealmaker Antoin "Tony" Rezko include an internship the senator provided the son of a contributor at the request of Rezko, an Obama spokesman confirmed today."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/18
4540,122306obama.article
Excellent blog on the Obama house deal
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/4/20117
/25087
Coverup. note the story itself is deleted and I needed to use Google cache.
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Update: Raw Story on the scrubbing of the site with the Rezko-Blagojevich pictures . After rumors began circulating that Auchi may have met with Obama, information was deleted from two websites connected to Auchi's company about a spring 2004 visit to the United States that occurred as Obama was campaigning to be Illinois' junior senator. And then this at the bottom, More recently, according to the FBI, Rezko had contacted "certain Illinois government officials" to help Auchi get a visa to the United States."
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