Flashback 2006: Opponent questions Giannoulias connections to Chicago Mob

WLS TV Chicago reports:

September 28, 2006 (WLS) -- New questions were raised Thursday about a political candidate's alleged connections to organized crime. Alexi Giannoulias is a Democrat running for Illinois state treasurer. His Republican opponent, Christine Radogno, is asking these questions. But she isn't the only one.

Political newcomer Alexi Giannoulias is not only facing Republican Christine Ragogno in the state treasurer's race, he is also battling with the chairman of his own Democratic party, House Speaker Michael Madigan, who agrees with Radogno that Giannoulias hasn't provided the right answers to questions abut loans from his family bank to unsavory characters.

The Democratic candidate for state treasurer, Chicago banker Alexi Giannoulias, is still facing the same questions he has been answering for months about multi-million dollar loans from his family-owned Broadway Bank to convicted felons with mob ties. Some of the questions are coming from his Republican opponent, state senator Christine Radogno of southwest suburban LaGrange.

"Clearly, he is the banker for people with mob associations, and, yeah, I don't think there's any question about that," said Christine Radogno, (R)-nominee for state treasurer.

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