Rezko's Judge Was A Deputy For Ken Starr

The Washington Post reports:

Is this is a small world, or what?

Just two days ago, on a java-sipping Sunday morning, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson and Obama campaign strategist David Alexrod were going at it on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopolous" over strange real estate deals. Wolfson was in his element, firing away at Barack Obama for his land deal with accused swindler Tony Rezko; Alexrod said Hillary Rodham Clinton should be the last person "wanting to characterize any real estate transaction as unusual" -- a none too subtle reference to Clinton's Whitewater woes.


None other than Amy St. Eve, the youthful and diminutive former protégé of Ken Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel.

St. Eve was a deputy on Starr's prosecution team in Little Rock, Ark., that convicted Jim and Susan McDougal, famed former pals and business partners of the Clintons in that really unusual -- to paraphrase Axelrod -- Whitewater real estate deal.

St. Eve has made quite a name for herself as a federal judge since being appointed by President Bush in 2002 at the age of 36.

Judge St. Eve's heard about real estate deals.