The Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that Eric Holder forgot to mention his Rod Blagojevich situation on his job application.Was Eric Holder concerned about this article that appeared in The Chicago Tribune on Jul. 19, 2005?:
Days after lawmakers authorized the Emerald Casino's move to Rosemont in 1999, the suburb's longtime mayor, Donald Stephens, met with five high-ranking organized crime figures to discuss what control the mob would have over contracts at the casino, an FBI agent testified Monday.Can Eric Holder be an objective Attorney General when the Rezko-Blagojevich investigations deal directly with something Eric Holder has a connection to? For a Chicago Mob chart on the importance of John "No Nose" DiFronzo and Joey "The Clown" Lombardo.Who can forget that Chris Kelly was Blagojevich's point man on gambling expansion in Illinois.Here's more on Chris Kelly and the gambling indictment.
Sitting with Stephens at Armand's restaurant in Elmwood Park were reputed mob leader Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, who is being sought by U.S. officials; John "No Nose" DiFronzo; his brother Peter; Joe "The Builder" Andriacchi; and Rudy Fratto, among others, said John Mallul, head of the FBI's organized crime unit in Chicago.
Testifying at a state hearing about whether to strip Emerald of its casino license, Mallul said agents learned of the May 29, 1999, meeting just days after it occurred from a longtime FBI informant who also was there.
"One topic of discussion," Mallul read from an FBI report based on the confidential source's information, "concerned a casino in Rosemont, Ill., and [organized crime] control of various contracts regarding its construction and operation."
