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Alamo Girl "Clinton and Riady were not new acquaintances. They had met in 1978, when Clinton was attorney general, and had not yet become governor of the state. They were introduced by Clinton's chief political backer, Jackson Stephens, the head of Stephens Inc., one of the largest private investment firms outside of Wall Street. "Thus began a friendship," in the words of Timperlake and Triplett, "that has lasted 20 years, and has spread a web of intrigue, financial corruption and foreign influence into American government." Riady had begun his American banking career earlier in the '70s as an intern at Stephens. Later, they became partners in the Worthen Bank of Little Rock, the very same institution that subsequently experienced a mysterious fire that destroyed records being sought by Kenneth Starr and other Whitewater investigators in their inquiries into Hillary Rodham Clinton's Rose law firm activities. It was through the Worthen bank that Riady arranged the $3.5 million credit to Clinton's failing primary campaign...."

Citizenwells.blog Secret Tapes Helped Build Graft Cases In Illinois, Washington Post, December 22, 2008, Pamela Meyer Davis, IL Health Planning Facilities Board, Stuart Levine, Blagojevich, Rezko, Barack Obama IL senate, Board rigged, 9 members, Obama corruption CHICAGO — Washington Post article excerpts: The wide-ranging public corruption probe that led to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich got its first big break when a grandmother of six walked into a breakfast meeting with shakedown artists wearing an FBI wire. Pamela Meyer Davis had been trying to win approval from a state health planning board for an expansion of Edward Hospital, the facility she runs in a Chicago suburb, but she realized that the only way to prevail was to retain a politically connected construction company and a specific investment house. Instead of succumbing to those demands, she went to the FBI and U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald in late 2003 and agreed to secretly record conversations about the project..... more search terms: Joseph Cari Jr., DNC committee member, wiretaps, Operation Board Games, flip, pat-to-play, on steroids, Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Obama transistion team, Meyer Davis, Chicago Medical School, student housing project, Stuart Levine, GOP fundraiser, courted Blago, health facilities board, teachers pension board, wiretap, discussions with Rezko, Levine indicted in 2005, extortion, kickbacks, cooperation, plea bargain, star witness agains Rezko, Better Government Association, Illinois Finance Authority, Ali Ata, Rezko had shaken him down, large campaign contributions, Jackson's wife for a lottery post, Washington Post

A community group in Chicago is raising concern about the recent murders of two men on Chicago's South Side.

Donald Young, Choir director of the Trinity United Church of Christ and Larry Bland, murdered.

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CitizenWells Spencer Bland Young ...“Scott Covington, owner of The Piano Store in Houston Texas, on Saturday May 17, 2008 called Chicago Police Homicide Detectives claiming to be a reporter for the DrudgeReport, attempting to obtain information on an on going CPD investigation.” Death list, Obama death list, Obama body count, Donald Young, Nate Spencer, Larry Bland, all black, gay, and TUCC, Wright, and also John Stoger, Cook County Board President, and Orlando Jones, both conveniently dead, both targets of corruption inquiry, FuckFrance According to Sinclair in an affidavit to the Chicago Police Department, Donald Young had informed him that he and Barack Obama were "intimate" with each other. Sinclair, it should be noted, declared on a January 18, 2008, YouTube video that on two separate occasions in November 1999, he engaged in sexual acts with Obama, and that Obama smoked crack cocaine-once in a limousine and the other time at a hotel in Gurnee, Ill. RumorMillNews Ashley Turton SCN reprint WMR Larry Sinclair, the gay man who claimed to have had two sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago in 1999, wrote a book, “Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder,” in which he states that Obama was linked to Young’s murder. Sinclair wrote that he was in contact with Young shortly before his murder and Young revealed his relationship with Obama.	American Free Press The murders of Donald Young, more Larry Bland, Nate Spencer, all gay, members of Obama's church, TUCC, GBMNews Donald Young pics IndigoSociety reprint Madsen IsraelTruthTimes reprint Madsen Mpandgs Namebase Felix Rodriguez Political Vel Craft reprint Madsen Yahoo Answers Any of you heard of Larry Bland, Nate Spencer, Donald Young, or Larry Sinclair? All are homosexuals. Three are from Trinity United Church pastored by Obama's dear "uncle" Rev. Wright. Those three including Donald Young, the former choir director, are DEAD. They all died within 40 days of each other starting in November 2007. notes: Sinclair’s book is now the subject of a defamation lawsuit [Daniel Parisi, et al v. Lawrence W. Sinclair a/k/a "Larry Sinclair," et al] brought by Dan Parisi, the proprietor of the website, Whitehouse.com, who is mentioned in Sinclair’s book with regard to his involvement in polygraphs administered to Sinclair after he made his allegations against Obama public during the 2008 presidential campaign. notes The lawsuit is being handled by the politically powerful Patton & Boggs law firm, the same firm that represented George W. Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak, and has been filed against Sinclair, his publishing company, and distributors, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.	American Free Press The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual American Investigator ConservativeByte reprint WMR in comments.... Among the members of the gay “DLC” were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: “septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.” FreeRepublic, Obama Spencer Bland Young. Donald Young "grew up" in TUCC under the auspices of Rev.J.Wright and eventually became ChoirMaster he was murdered point blank with a bullet to the back of his head the Chicago CI Division to the best of my knowledge has SHELVED the investigation for a later date.Young Obambi Anderson Cooper, the gay CIA lover of Barry Soetoro TownHall reprints WMR in comments
Cameldog The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual. ... Another questionable Obama associate is openly homosexual. That person is Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, who was listed during the 2008 campaign as being part of Obama’s “technology initiative.” WMR: Among the members of the gay "DLC" were Obama and TUCC's choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: "septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV." ... "DLC" members often went on camping trips arranged by TUCC. Wright reportedly was the head of the "DLC" matchmaking services and ensured that its members protected each other. ... The "DLC's" clientele included Obama and other gay members of TUCC, including, reportedly Young, Bland, and Spencer. Fox 32 Chicago reported that Bland's mother, Josephine Bland, was so upset at her son inviting men into their home as a result of contacting them through gay web sites like "Adam4Adam," she moved out. ... The gay community in Chicago knows to keep away from the TUCC and "DLC" stories because of the "creepiness" of the operation and the suspicious deaths of the three TUCC gay black men. ... Although Obama protected his alternate life style through the secretiveness of the "DLC," he was not so careful when he proclaimed he was a state senator while frolicking at Man's Country in uptown Chicago.

Both men were shot and both cases remain unsolved. ... A new community group called Critical Caucus wants police and the media to focus on the recent murders of two South Side men. Donald Young, 47, and Larry Bland, 24, were shot inside their homes. Police say so far they are not linking the two murders together. ... Donald Young was the popular teacher and choir director who was shot several times at his South Side home Sunday. Larry Bland was a security guard shot to death inside his Englewood home more than a month ago. ... "We're calling on the police department to let this community know what is going on. Are we under attack? Is this a serial killer?" said Marc Loveless, Critical Caucus. ... Critical Caucus is concerned the police did not issue a community alert. ... "They would not put out a community alert unless there was some type of evidence that lead us to believe there might be a serial incident. And in this case, we are investigating these two incidents separately," said Dana Starks, interim Chicago Police Dept. superintendent. ... Bland was killed in his basement apartment. Hi s brother says he was shot after he walked into a burglary in progress. ... "He worked seven days a week. He was a good guy. He wasn't all outside bothering everybody or nothing, just work, come home like a normal guy," said Len Bland. ... He said he is concerned his brother may have also been the victim of a hate crime. Bland was openly gay. Police say they're following up on all leads and possible motives in the Bland case. ... "We look at an alternative lifestyle and the possibility of a hate crime, but that's in the context of our overall investigation," said Starks. ... Police continue to follow up on several leads in the Donald Young case as well. Young's funeral is scheduled for Saturday morning at the Trinity United Church of Christ. ... Next Monday, Critical Caucus plans on holding a stop the violence march. The group is affiliated with the Gay, African-American Coalition for Justice and Respect.

Federal judge tosses out lawsuit against book sellers by Larry Sinclair debunker, April 1-3, 2011 --

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U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Richard J. Leon on March 31 dismissed a lawsuit brought against the sellers of Larry Sinclair's book, "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder?." The suit against Books-A-Million, Barnes and Noble [B&N], and Amazon.com was brought by Dan Parisi, who claimed Sinclair's book, sold by the three vendors, was libelous against Parisi. Parisi was represented in his unsuccessful lawsuit against the three book sellers by the Washington political powerhouse firm Patton & Boggs.

Leon has yet to rule on the lawsuit brought by Parisi against Larry Sinclair.

Parisi and three of his firms, Whitehouse.com Inc., Whitehouse Network LLC, and White House Communications Inc., sued Sinclair and the book sellers on five counts: libel per se/libel; false light invasion/misappropriation of privacy; business disparagement; tortuous interference with economic advantage; and civil conspiracy.

The court provided the following background to the case in its decision to dismiss the lawsuit against the book sellers: "In January 2008, Larry Sinclair, also a defendant in this case, made public certain allegations regarding the use of drugs with and sexual activity between himself and then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. Parisi, the owner and operator of the website Whitehouse.com, challenged Sinclair to take a polygraph regarding his allegations. Sinclair ultimately accepted this challenge and polygraph examinations were administered by Edward Gelb in February 2008. In June 2009, Sinclair wrote and published a book about his allegations and subsequent interactions with Parisi and Gelb entitled "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder?" ("the Sinclair book"). Jeffrey Rense, also a defendant in this case, wrote the forward to the book. Plaintiffs contend that the Sinclair book, as well as the forward, contain defamatory statements regarding Parisi and the website, and further, that these statements caused the website Whitehouse. com to shut down in 2008.Indeed, Parisi had hoped to sell that site to a mainstream political/news entity during the 2008 presidential election year, but now alleges that he was unable to do so in light of Sinclair's defamation. Thus, he and his fellow plaintiffs claim damages of $30,000,000."

Although Judge Leon has yet to rule in the suit against Sinclair, the following in his decision to dismiss the lawsuit against the book vendors may provide a clue as to the court's leanings: ". . . plaintiffs' claims that because Sinclair, his publisher, and the author of the forward to his book, Rense, were not "reputable" does nothing to advance their claim that B&N entertained serious doubts as to the veracity of Sinclair's book. Not only was B&N under no legal obligation to make itself aware of those parties' reputations, but furthermore, as discussed above, actual malice is a subjective standard that must be shown in the mind of the defendant."

Sinclair has been subjected, since his revelations about his past gay sexual trysts with then-Illinois state Senator Obama, to a concerted campaign of media attacks; false arrest at the National Press Club in Washington in 2008 by District of Columbia police acting on the behest of Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden; and surveillance by the US Secret Service.

WMR has learned from a source who attended Harvard along with Obama and who is familiar with the Obama family and their top aides that Michelle Obama, the First Lady, is the major nexus for ensuring that anyone with knowledge of Obama's past and current personal activities is dealt with and dealt with severely. "Michelle will treat those with knowledge that may threaten her husband like any Chicago gangster would," conveyed the source.

In addition, WMR has learned from longtime African-American activists that Obama was, in fact, placed in south Chicago in the mid-1980s to spy for the CIA and FBI on the Nation of Islam, the Black Panther Party, and the El Rukn gang. All three groups were suspected by the CIA and FBI of maintaining close ties to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, who was, at the time, the Reagan administration's "public enemy number one." "It is why Obama channels Ronald Reagan these days," said one black activist, " and why he [Obama] finds it important to attack and remove Qaddafi from power." "Obama did no 'community organizing' in Chicago," said one African-American community leader from Chicago. The leader also said that Obama challenged U.S. Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL), a former member of the Black Panther Party and member of the Chicago City Council when Obama arrived in the city in 1985, for his House seat in 2002 in order to remove from Congress someone who "has the past good" on Obama and his phony resumé. Obama's loss to Rush in 2002 represents Obama's only political defeat.

Many Chicago African-Americans and Muslims said that while Obama was keen to receive their endorsements and funding in his political campaigns, his actions as President, continuing and, in some cases, starting wars against four Muslim nations: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya (also an African nation), represents a betrayal.

WMR has also received confirmation about Joe Biden's sexual orientation that we first heard about in 2006 from a White House source from Wilmington, Delaware. A former congressional staffer, who also has close ties to Howard University in Washington and top Obama administration officials, revealed that a major reason why Obama selected Biden as his vice presidential running mate was to neutralize any chance that Obama's own past homosexuality might become a political wedge that could be used by the vice president against the president while in office. The former congressional staffer revealed that Biden, for many years, has carried out homosexual trysts with African-American faculty and students at Howard and that this was known to Obama when he selected Biden as his running mate.

It was Biden who pressured his son, Delaware's Attorney General, to have Sinclair arrested after his June 2008 press conference in Washington at which Sinclair revealed his own past gay sexual encounters with Obama. Biden, who was on the extreme short list for Vice President, ensured that the claims about Obama's past were buried and Sinclair immediately discredited in order that Biden's road to the number two spot was ensured. Establishing himself as a "team player," Biden's selection by Obama was a cinch, said our source.

Purple Hotel

August 2, 2010 -- Fitzgerald's ploy in Rezko and Blagojevich trials was to avoid "the color purple"

After US Judge James Zagel repeatedly ruled against the calling or even mentioning of key defense witnesses and the playing in court of a significant portion of government wiretapped communications in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the case brought about by U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most corrupt federal prosecutors in the United States, is now (Aug 2010) before the jury. During the trial, Zagel, a Ronald Reagan nominee, upheld almost every objection by the prosecution of defense questions as either irrelevant or argumentative, a clear indication that Fitzgerald, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Niewoehner and other members of his team were successful in their "judge shopping" for a tainted jurist. On its second day of deliberations, the jury requested a transcript of a segment of the trial from Zagel. In yet another unusual move, Zagel turned down the jury's request.

Zagel was adamant in not having sitting Democratic politicians aligned with Obama and his chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel brought up during the trial by the defense. Off limits were President Obama, his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Obama advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, and powerful Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan. Plans by the defense to call Obama, Emanuel, and Jarrett were stymied by Fitzgerald and the White House. If convicted, Blagojevich could face as much as 415 years in prison.

The final days of the court room proceedings saw Zagel threaten Blagojevich's defense attorney Sam Adam, Sr. with conempt if he dared mentioned the names Antoin "Tony" Rezko or Stuart Levine to the jury. Rezko and Levine were two powerful Chicago businessmen who lavished huge sums of money and favors on Illinois politicians, including Obama and Blagojevich. In the trial of Rezko and Levine, the government argued that in return for political contributions and favors, Blagojevich and his associates attempted to steer state pension funds and other state money to interests in which they had a financial interests. Levine, a Republican, had been appointed to the Illinois Teacher's Retirement System and Illinois Hospital Facilities Planning Boards by Blagojevich and his predecessor, Governor George Ryan, also convicted and jailed as a result of Fitzgerald's prosecution.

The government's investigation of Levine and Rezko was code-named Operation Board Games by the FBI. The investigation also involved Blagojevich's campaign fundraiser Christopher Kelly and Blagojevich's first term chief of staff Alonzo "Lon" Monk. Monk was portrayed as someone who was willing to lie for the prosecutors in return for a prison sentence of two years as opposed to a maximum of twenty years. Kelly, died from what was determined to be a drug overdose last September. Even though Kelly had been stabilized at Oak Forest Hospital, he died after being transferred to Stoger Hospital in Chicago. Among the last people who saw Kelly before he died were reportedly a police officer and an unidentified "grey-haired man." Kelly was to be called as a witness in the Blagojevich trial by the prosecution.

First identified as potential witnesses for the prosecution, and then for the defense, neither Rezko nor Levine were called as witnesses during the trial. WMR has learned that to call either Rezko and/or Levine would have potentially exposed the jurors to the importance of the Purple Hotel in the overall discussion of Chicago's seamier political scene. The Purple Hotel, which is now closed and slated for demolition, was a one-time meeting place for men-only drug and sex parties in suburban Lincolnwood. WMR has learned that the Purple Hotel weekday afternoon parties were attended by Rezko, Levine, and Obama. The Purple Hotel had previously been connected to the murder of Teamsters pension fund mobster Allen Dorfman, who was gunned down in the parking lot of the Purple Hotel in 1983. Dorfman's killers were never identified.

Although Fitzgerald originally planned to call Rezko, who has been held in solitary confinement in the Chicago metropolitan detention facility since June 2008 pending assignment to a federal prison, and Levine as witnesses for the prosecution against Blagojevich, he suddenly changed his plans. Blagojevich's team rested their case without calling any witnesses, including Rezko and Levine.

On April 1, 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on the day-long parties at the 293-room Purple Hotel: "Daylong, drug-fueled parties at the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood and sometimes in Springfield. Snorting crystal meth and 'Special K.' Stuart Levine, the star witness at businessman and political fund-raiser Tony Rezko's corruption trial, told jurors Monday the drugs would make him 'euphoric' and lower his inhibitions as he partied all night with five other men. 'I would stay out all night,' said Levine, testifying that he hid his behavior in order to deceive my family.'"

Purple Hotel at the corner of Touhy and Lincoln, and just off Interstate 94, in Lincolnwood, was reportedly the scene of gay sex and drug parties attended by Obama and two potential key Blagojevich trial witnesses -- Rezko and Levine -- whose testimony was suppressed by Fitzgerald's prosecution team and Judge James Zagel.

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Levine tells of drug-fueled parties -- some at Lincolnwood landmark back

REZKO TRIAL | Levine tells of drug-fueled parties -- some at Lincolnwood landmark

April 1, 2008 BY NATASHA KORECKI AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters Daylong, drug-fueled parties at the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood and sometimes in Springfield. Snorting crystal meth and "Special K." Stuart Levine, the star witness at businessman and political fund-raiser Tony Rezko's corruption trial, told jurors Monday the drugs would make him "euphoric" and lower his inhibitions as he partied all night with five other men.

"I would stay out all night," said Levine, testifying that he hid his behavior "in order to deceive my family."

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Stuart Levine (inset) testified that he took part in daylong, drug-fueled parties at the Purple Hotel (shown in 2006) in Lincolnwood. (Sun-Times Library/AP) RELATED STORIES Blog: Eye on Rezko More on the Tony Rezko trial REZKO TRIAL HIGHLIGHTS Star witness Stuart Levine admitted to frequent drug parties and described a meeting at which he said he and Tony Rezko agreed on a split of illicit kickbacks. Today: Levine is expected to talk about a shakedown scheme involving powerful political insiders.

It was the second time Levine's drug use came up in his testimony. But Monday he gave jurors a more extensive look at drug abuse he said cost him $1 million over four years and offered a peek into what Rezko's lawyers have labeled Levine's "secret life." They've said they plan to use Levine's drug use to attack his credibility.

Levine said at times he'd take leftover drugs from parties to his offices at the Hancock Building and in his Deerfield office and snort "a couple of lines."

"I'd prepare them in lines a ½-inch long and very, very narrow," Levine testified, adding that he paid for all the drugs at the parties, spending about $1,000 each time.

He said he took the drugs at his Highland Park home only "on very rare occasions." Why? "I didn't wish to be caught," he said. "We had a housekeeper, children and my wife all coming in and out of the house."

His admissions about drug use came on the same day Levine described an April 2004 meeting with Rezko in which he said the two men divvied up millions of dollars in kickbacks for state business. Levine testified he reserved a private room on the fourth floor of the exclusive Standard Club downtown. Levine said he asked the waiter not to interrupt and drew up in his notes how he'd split a series of fees paid by firms seeking to do state business.

Levine had many of the firms lined up to get hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of investments from state boards, including one on which Levine sat. Levine said he wanted to cut Rezko in on finder's fees from these firms because "I wanted to further ingratiate myself."

The 62-year-old Highland Park businessman has pleaded guilty to corruption and fraud involving state boards. Rezko, 52, of Wilmette, is accused of scheming with Levine to split kickbacks tied to those boards.

By the end of the meeting at the Standard Club, Rezko agreed to $3.9 million as his cut in a series of illicit kickbacks, Levine testified. Prosecutors showed a receipt from that night and played tapes showing Levine made arrangements to meet with Rezko.

"I told Mr. Rezko that there was an opportunity for a lot of money to be made," Levine said. "I wanted Mr. Rezko to understand the magnitude of what could be done with these companies."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Niewoehner asked how Rezko reacted.

"He asked me what needed to be done in order to accomplish them," Levine said.

"Did Mr. Rezko ask you if it would be legal for him to receive those fees?" Niewoehner asked.

"No, sir," said Levine.

More highlights from Levine’s testimony Monday Star witness Stuart Levine also testified Monday that:

• He worked with political power broker William Cellini to convince Tony Rezko and Christopher Kelly, another adviser to and fund-raiser for Gov. Blagojevich, that three major state pension funds shouldn’t be consolidated into one, as Blagojevich budget chief John Filan had proposed. At first, Blagojevich seemed to back Filan, Levine said Cellini told him. But ultimately the pension boards weren’t consolidated.

In exchange for their killing the consolidation plan, Levine said he agreed to work with Rezko and Kelly to help direct state business for investment firms that the two of them would choose.

“What is your understanding of why Mr. Rezko and Mr. Kelly would recommend investment firms?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Niewoehner asked Levine.

“In order to reward campaign contributors” to Blagojevich, Levine replied.

• He held sway over state Teachers’ Retirement System board decisions because he controlled the agency’s executive director, Jon Bauman. Levine, who headed the TRS board’s personnel committee, said he let Bauman write his own job-performance reviews, which enabled Bauman to get bigger raises and other perks.

But Levine said he grew frustrated with Bauman in 2004, when Bauman didn’t act quickly on investment moves Levine was pushing.

“Jon has a couple of personality traits that are problematic: arrogance and stupidity,” Levine said in a secretly recorded call in April 2004.

In an interview Monday, Howard Feldman, an attorney for Bauman, defended his client, who remains TRS’ executive director.

“The board met and considered the evaluation of Mr. Bauman’s performance,” Feldman said. “They renewed his contract. And, in fact, not a single dollar was lost or an inappropriate investment made.”

• When he relayed to Rezko concerns he had about a new ethics ordinance that Blagojevich had pushed through the General Assembly in 2003, “Mr. Rezko told me nobody of any consequence was going to pay attention to the ethics ordinance. It was there just for show.”

Blagojevich, who isn’t facing any criminal charges, has said he “is not following” the Rezko trial, and “it would be inappropriate for me to comment on a trial I'm not a party in.”

Obama accuser Larry Sinclair monitored by uniformed security at informal National Press Club discussion group

Aug 4, 2010 source:

WayneMadsenReport

August 6-8, 2010 -- Obama accuser Larry Sinclair monitored by uniformed security at informal National Press Club discussion group

On August 4, author and former Florida congressional candidate Larry Sinclair was invited to discuss his allegations against President Barack Obama before a discussion group of members of the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Sinclair, who wrote a book titled, "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder," is being sued for $30 million, along with his book distributor, and book sellers Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com by one-time proprietor of the website Whitehouse.com, Dan Parisi who claims allegations in Sinclair's book are defamatory.

Sinclair believes the suit, using the services of the $600/hour law firm of Patton & Boggs, is being orchestrated with the backing of the Obama White House.

At an informal journalistic study group panel at the National Press Club held on August 4, a uniformed security guard was present during the three-hour dinner meeting with Sinclair. The action was, according to some long-serving members of the organization, unprecedented. At the conclusion of the meeting, the security guard and press club staff insisted Sinclair had to be escorted by security from the premises of the press club. Furthermore, an attempt by this editor to take a photograph of Sinclair in the public lobby for WMR was denied based on the orders of the National Press Club president, Alan Bjerga of Bloomberg News, and Bill McCarren, the general manager.

In early 2008, Sinclair appeared in a Youtube video describing two 1999 sexual encounters with then-Illinois state senator Barack Obama. On June 18, 2008, Sinclair reiterated his allegations at a National Press Club news conference. After the press conference, one in which Sinclair was ill-served by amateurish public relations advisers, he was arrested by Washington Metropolitan Police on a warrant issued by the office of Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of then-senator Joseph Biden. Biden, at the time, was on Obama's short list of vice presidential running mates. Obama announced that Biden was his running mate on August 23, 2008. Just a few weeks before Sinclair's news conference at the press club, Obama had clinched enough delegates to wrest the Democratic nomination from his chief rival, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York.

After his imprisonment in Washington and transfer to Delaware, the Delaware Attorney General's office decided to decline prosecution of Sinclair over past money order forgery charges in Wilmington due to lack of evidence. Sinclair has alleged the National Press Club was fully aware of Washington police plans to arrest him after his news conference but not before they secured $8000 for the rental of the press club venue.

Contrary to information available at the time of his arrest, Sinclair had already spoken to reporters for the Chicago Tribune and New York Post on the allegations of past gay sex and drug use on the part of Obama, however, both papers declined to follow up on the story. WMR has learned that Obama's chief political adviser, David Axelrod, who once worked for the Chicago Tribune, personally interceded with his old paper to back off the allegations by Sinclair and others and ensured the story was killed.

Sinclair also revealed that he had a number of discussions with representatives of the Clinton campaign beginning in January 2008 and continuing up to the time of his press conference in Washington. WMR has also learned that Axelrod allegedly told members of the Clinton campaign during the height of the Democratic primary battle, "We know Sinclair and we will destroy him and hang him on Hillary Clinton."

WMR, at the time of Sinclair's news conference, felt there was not any substantial evidence to consider the veracity of Sinclair's claims. However, as a result of the trial of ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and the pogrom launched by the Obama White House against senior current and former members of the Congressional Black Caucus, WMR has been informed by reputable sources that there is merit to Sinclair's allegations and some of his allegations were verified during a recent WMR investigation conducted in Chicago.

WMR has asked the president of the National Press Club a series of on-the-record questions about why a uniformed security guard was present at the dinner session with Sinclair and whether the National Press Club had any communications, oral, written, or electronic, with White House staff, including Axelrod, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, press secretary Robert Gibbs, or Patton & Boggs, prior and subsequent to Sinclair's meeting with the journalists on August 4.

In answer to the questions about contact between the National Press Club on one hand and either the White House or Patton & Boggs on the other, Bjerga, in an email to WMR, stated there was no contact. As far as the security guard present during the dinner session, Bjerga responded, "We have hired security guards in the past in an abundance of caution when the National Press Club has reason to believe a disturbance may be possible because of an individual's presence in the facility. Given that Mr. Sinclair was arrested the last time he was at the National Press Club, it was not unreasonable to request monitoring in this situation. Should a similar situation present itself in the future, the same practice would be followed."

Larry Sinclair under the National Press Club logo and sign outside the club after being escorted by a security guard from the premises. Press club responds that they were expecting a "disturbance" -- but from where? The White House is two blocks away from the above location.

When Sinclair was arrested at the Press Club in June 2008, it was not as the result of a disturbance during his news conference but was pursuant to a "flight from justice" warrant issued by the US District Attorney for the District of Columbia based on a request from Delaware Attorney General Biden, whose father was already on Obama's short list for the vice presidential nomination. The Delaware charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence. There was no reason to believe that a "disturbance," as described by Bjerga, was imminent on August 4 on the part of any of the dinner attendees, including the speaker. However, it was clear that the constant surveillance of the dinner attendees by club staff was an attempt at intimidation.

.... more search terms: Gibbs, Alexi Giannoulias, Spain, press corps loss of access, Donald Young phone records, Sinclair / Young conversations, Trinity United Church of Christ, drug use, oral sex. see full story at WayneMadsenReport

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