Barack Obama and Operation Board Games

We strongly recommend everyone read Evelyn Pringle's excellent post.Remember,this isn't a Republican writing this.Here's a little excerpt:

The investigation dubbed "Operation Board Games," into the influence peddling within the cesspool of corruption that encompasses Illinois politicians from both major parties, has developed into multiple subplots, many of which feature Barack Obama.

Therefore, Obama should start bidding for the starring role in the movie that is sure to follow the criminal trials involved in this case because he has absolutely no chance of winning the White House, even if the leaders of the Democratic party allow this sorry charade to carry on and his name appears on the ballot.

The major media organizations continue to ignore a story that is destined to become the biggest political scandal of the decade, except for a bleep here and there. By now this can only mean one of two things. They are either unwilling to commit the manpower necessary to connect the dots of all the subplots or they know the Republicans will supply the goods free of charge the minute Obama becomes the nominee.

This two-part article is the last article in a 3-part series. The first two, Barack Obama - The Wizard of Oz and Barack Obama - Operation Board Games For Slumlords, cover Obama's rise to fame in the political mafia of Illinois, bankrolled by the now infamous Syrian-born influence peddler, Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

They also give the details of Obama's involvement in a slumlord business largely operating out of the Chicago-based Davis, Miner & Barnhill law firm, which hired Obama in 1993, with his boss, Allison Davis, reaping in the profits with Rezko's development company, Rezmar.

The "Board Games For Slumlord" article gives in-depth details of the federal investigation along with the names of people who are listed as "Co-Schemers" and "Individuals" in the indictments issued thus far. Therefore for the most part, this article will refer to all the scams collectively as what prosecutors refer to as "pay-to-play" schemes.

The mainstream media continues to refer to the corruption trial currently taking place in a Federal courthouse in Chicago as the Rezko case, never mentioning the fact that Rezko is sitting in the courtroom alone at the defendant's table only because many of the co-defendants have already pleaded guilty, or have not been indicted yet.

Some of the people listed in the indictments as co-schemers and individuals include William Cellini, a long-standing Republican powerbroker in Illinois, and Robert Kjellander, treasurer for the Republican National Committee.

In the April 3, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times, Mark Brown wrote: "For more than three decades, William Cellini has been the unseen hand pulling the strings of Illinois government, adroitly manipulating it to his purpose."

"That purpose," Brown noted, "was mainly to make himself rich -- through lobbying fees and insider contracts, government loans and leases for his real estate developments, and finally the coup de grace, his own riverboat casino company."

Cellini was a co-founder of Commonwealth Realty Advisors, "a firm that has received hundreds of millions of dollars in pension funds to invest on behalf of retired state employees and teachers," according to a report by Rick Pearson in the April 6, 2008 Chicago Tribune.

You'll want to read the whole long post by Evelyn Pringle.Remember,Obama is from the same town that elected a high ranking "made member" of the Chicago Mob to Chicago's City Council.