Rezko Jurors: 'We were here to represent the people who didn't have a voice'

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

On the first day the 12 jurors in Tony Rezko's corruption trial sat down to deliberate, they were split nearly evenly between those who thought he was guilty and those who thought him innocent, juror Randall Franz, 30, recalled.

"That first day, there was a lot of dissension," the postal carrier said Wednesday night in his Montgomery duplex. "Some people sitting through the trial saw one thing, some saw something else."

They didn't focus on Gov. Blagojevich or Barack Obama -- two beneficiaries of Rezko's fund-raising whose names surfaced at trial. Instead they looked at the shakedown schemes involving the state Teachers' Retirement System and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board.

"We were here to represent the people who didn't have a voice in this case," said juror Susan Lopez, a school administrator.

An article well worth your time.Two politicians names came up.You've got to wonder if those two politicians are under the U.S. Attorney's spotlight.