Friday, June 27, 2008

Obama's Name Comes Up in New Unsealed Rezko Court Documents

Here's the new PDF File of Rezko trial documents in which Obama's name comes up.Ben Smith reports:
prosecutors prepared to call witnesses who would flesh out the ties between Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, and Ken Vogel sends over the court document in which they detailed the planned testimony.

The testimony wouldn't have covered new ground, just detailed Rezko's support for Obama and his apparently illegal contributions, which have since been returned.

I'd been told by people involved in the case in Chicago that prosecutors had made preparations for Rezko to call Obama as a defense witness. That didn't happen, and neither did the potential testimony linking them.

This isn't the end of the story for Obama.