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"After Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he and Rezko's wife bought adjoining pieces of property, then she turned around and sold him hers for just a fraction of what she'd paid for it."
The truth is that the Obamas bought one sixth of the vacant lot that Rezko's wife owned at one sixth of the price that Rezko's wife had paid for the entire lot. The house is the Obama's residential home, and they bought the one sixth of the vacant lot to extent a walk way.
The rest of the report is factually accurate, but you failed to mention that Tony Rezko was a huge player in both Illinois and Chicago politics, and gave money to just about every Democratic candidate in his district, and quite a lot to governor Blagojevich (in fact he is more associated with Blagojevich than with Obama).
Tony Rezko wanted to be big inside man in Illinois and wield substantial influence over government in Illinois, but Illinois politicians and lobbyist refused to play ball with him, which is why he is now indicted.
I don't want to get into too many details, but there are a lot more dubious characters in Clinton's fund raising past than Rezko, and I have no doubt that Clinton would have accepted his money before the scandals surrounding Rezko broke (just like every other Democrat did).
