The Obama camp isn't denying it.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, three names linked to Obama, including one person on Obama's campaign staff, appear on a list of 39 names of people for whom Rezko tried to land jobs with the Blagojevich Administration.  The Sun-Times contacted Obama's staff:

"We do not know how decisions were made to fill specific state positions, and we have no records of any individual recommendations we were asked to make or made," says Obama spokesman Bill Burton "But we do know that Tony Rezko, among others, was helping to gather names for the positions coming open with a new administration, and, if it is established any names came through our office, we would have no reason to doubt it."

Burton obviously knows something about the facts of the story, and he's not denying it.  "We have no records," he says, not "Nobody knows anything about it."

Assuming it happened, the next question is who was Rezko's contact?  If it wasn't Obama, did he or she communicate with Obama about the process?  If so, what was said?

Barak Obama's name appeared in the opening statements today at the Tony Rezko trial. Obama was just one of many politicians that Rezko was connected with and we will soon see just how involved our potential Democratic Nominee was involved with this individual.

Any thoughts on why Obama was mentioned on day one?