Flashback: Rezko Connected Nadhmi Auchi and Saddam Hussein

The Komisar Scoop

Nadhmi Auchi further outed by John Shaw thanks to Doug Ross

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REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 3 of 3)

Illinois Pay to Play reports:

Nadhmi Auchi, despite his purchased respectability in England, was the financial eminence behind the Chicago-Arab combine, and the man who, with Rezko, helped invent Barack Obama as a political star.

REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 2 of 3)

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REZKO, OBAMA, AND THE NADHMI AUCHI RAILROAD LINKING CHICAGO, WASHINGTON, AND BAGHDAD (Part 1of 3)

Former Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security John A. Shaw has a three part series of articles in Illinois Pay to Play. Here's an extract from part one:

The kingpin of Iraqi corruption, Nadhmi Auchi, and his Chicago henchman, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, built a well-financed network of political influence in Chicago over several decades. Barack Obama is its most famous beneficiary.

There's more:

Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi-born billionaire who relocated from Baghdad to London in 1980 where he adopted British citizenship. Auchi is the engineer who designed a new political railroad that connects the Middle East to the Middle West, with tracks that run through Washington. Auchi financed it all. Think of him as the empire builder for the Chicago, Washington & Baghdad Railroad, with Tony Rezko as Conductor, and Barack Obama as its favored Passenger.

The world of Barack Obama.

Nadhmi Auchi’s London law firm targets American Thinker website

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DoJ silences Obama associate Daniel S. Mahru with his freedom

Illinois Pay to Play reports:

Illinoispaytoplay.com (IP2P) has learned that Daniel S. Mahru, former business partner of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, made a deal with the Department of Justice (DoJ) for his silence. IP2P is the first to report that on, October 4 2012, Daniel S. Mahru will receive probation at his sentencing hearing. IP2P has also learned that this is being done to insure Mahru will not speak of crimes, of which he has knowledge, that implicate Barack Obama, Valarie Jarrett, Allison Davis, Tony Rezko and others. (Remember Tony recently saying he committed crimes for which Fitzgerald did not charge him.) IP2P is also investigating the circumstances surrounding meetings that took place where Daniel T Frawley and Daniel S Mahru (both convicted felons) met with author Jerome Corsi in Chicago to discuss secret meetings between Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko, (now Governor) Pat Quinn, and others.

Ernie Souchak lives!

WikiLeaks on the Auchi-Rezko-Blago Connection

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. & Nadhmi Auchi: Mutual Admiration

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Jerome Corsi's Bombshell Video: Rezko Associate on Tape Talks about Obama Meeting

Illinois Pay to Play reports:

Illinois PayToPlay has learned that, in addition to the Postman video recently released by Jerome Corsi on World Net Daily, Corsi also holds a 2011 recorded interview with former Rezko associate Daniel T. Frawley.

The recording was made late last year in Chicago in a meeting that involved Corsi, Frawley and three other persons who gathered to discuss the possibility of writing a book.

The recording reportedly includes a description of how, in 2004, during Nadhmi Auchi’s visit to Chicago, Auchi, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, and Barack Obama met in the basement “cigar room” inside Rezko’s 30-room mansion in Wilmette, Illinois where they discussed, among other things, the purchase of a 62-acres plot in the South Loop.

Stay tuned, Dan Frawley is supposed to be sentenced next month.

‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’ Nadhmi Auchi, Illinois State Elites, the Obamas

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Rezko-Auchi webscrubbing

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Semir Sirazi vs. Nadhmi Auchi: A Chicago Lawsuit Underway

Illinois Pay to Play reports:

The repercussions of Tony Rezko’s business dealings with Nadhmi Auchi are now playing out in a lawsuit, filed on January 30, 2012 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, pitting Plaintiffs Semir D. Sirazi, Greenstone Capital L.L.C. and Mardini, Inc., vs. Defendants General Mediterranean Holding, SA, Orifarm, SA, and Nadhmi Auchi.

A Rezko update.

Rezko-Related Case Still Unraveling

The Courthouse News Service reports and a lawsuit not gaining much attention:

One of Antoin Rezko's former business partners claims Rezko conspired to sell a 62-acre parcel of land in Chicago's rapidly developing South Loop neighborhood to a Luxembourg-based real estate group, instead of paying his debts.

In 2011, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, an influential Syrian-American political fundraiser, was convicted of running a pay-to-play influence scheme that demanded kickbacks from companies seeking government contracts. He was sentenced to 10½ years in federal prison.

Semir Sirazi and his companies Greenstone Capital and Mardini Inc. sued General Mediterranean Holdings, Orifarm, and Nadmi Auchi in Federal Court.
The complaint refers to the defendants as "the GMH defendants." It concerns events that happened before Rezko was convicted.

Sirazi claims that from 2006 to 2008 the defendants made "efforts to leapfrog the Sirazi plaintiffs, superior creditors of Antoin S. Rezko, by secretly obtaining

Rezko's ownership interests in a 62-acre parcel in Chicago's South Loop co-owned with the GMH defendants in exchange for forgiving Rezko's debts to them and providing Rezko with access to millions of dollars in new capital."

No word yet from Alderman Ed Burke or Barack Obama on this story.

From Baghdad to Chicago: Rezko and the Auchi empire

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Is Fitzgerald Protecting Obama From the Blagojevich Trial???

Nuclear Chicago reports:

As an update to my continuing effort to construct a biography of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as well as provide special reporting related to the retrial of Milorad Blagojevich, I am writing this morning to officially report upon and inform The May Report and NuclearChicago readership of the following:

At approximately 9:15a this past Thursday morning, while en route to the Federal Courts to continue our coverage of USA v. Blagojevich – Nuclear Chicago published the following headline:

USA v. Blagojevich Retrial: US Attorney Patrick “The Sandbagger” Fitzgerald?

http://www.nuclearchicago.com/2011/05/nuclear-chicago-usa-v-blagojevich-retrial-u-s-attorney-patrick-the-sandbagger-fitzgerald/

Among other factors, the prevailing basis for same sensational headline as well as related analysis was due to the fact that Antoin “Tony” Rezko – Uber Confidante to Blagojevich, Obama and Nadhmi Auchi – had not yet testified as a Federal Government Witness in USA v. Blagojevich.

Same refusal by US Attorney Fitzgerald to place Rezko in the Witness Box to bury Blagojevich further corroborates the brutal realities that US Attorney Fitzgerald has been running egregious political interference to both benefit and protect Team Obama (i.e., Allison Davis, Dr. Eric Whitaker, Marty Nesbitt, et al).

Simply put – Antoin “Tony” Rezko is the only witness that can bury Blagojevich and the Chicago Political Thuggery Machine. Why is Fitzgerald holding back Rezko? What has been promised or implied to Fitzgerald as a “reward” for Fitzgerald’s blatant sandbagging efforts.

Same egregious political interference by Fitzgerald can be traced back to as early as 2006 when the Chicago Tribune was preparing to publish an exclusive scoop that convicted felon and Federal Goverment informant John Thomas (formerly Berard Barton) was parading around Chicago procuring taped conversations and other evidence against politicians that were visiting Rezko’s real estate office on the near north side of the City. Evidently, same surveillance efforts procured damaging information against then US Senator Obama and Governor Blagojevich.

As reported in an earlier update (and according to a well-placed source at the Chicago Tribune), the Chicago Tribune finally capitulated to Fitzgerald’s demands and efforts to stop same exclusive John Thomas scoop only when Fitzgerald informed the Tribune that same exclusive John Thomas scoop would impair a 2008 Obama Presidential campaign. Upon being informed of 2008 Obama Presidential campaign implications – the Tribune terminated its efforts. Same scoop was ultimately published in May 2007 via Crain’s Chicago Business to serve as a ‘heads-up’ to Obama for America Treasurer and Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Marty Nesbitt. Same ‘heads-up’ was yet another example of political interference as John Thomas was actively trying to purchase prime real estate owned by the Chicago Housing Authority – 626 West Jackson.

US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald — a modern day Elliot Ness with a Harvard Law Degree?

Hardly.

You'll want to read the whole thing. No word yet on this one from Blagojevich associate Eric Holder of Rosemont casino fame. Is John "No Nose" DiFronzo's favorite Attorney General Eric Holder???

Auchi attorneys go after Illinois Review

Illinois Review gets threatened by Tony Rezko's "friend".

Lawsuit says billionaire Auchi owes investor for Rezko's stake in South Loop site

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

A Wilmette investor alleges that Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi cheated him out of the proceeds from the sale of Antoin Rezko's stake in a large South Loop development site.

Mr. Auchi, chairman of conglomerate General Mediterranean Holding SA, already owned 50% of the sprawling, 62-acre site in a venture that included Mr. Rezko, who was a top fundraiser to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Mr. Auchi structured his purchase of the rest of property so that Mr. Rezko could avoid paying Semir Sirazi, according to a complaint filed last week by Mr. Sirazi in Cook County Circuit Court.

At one time, Mr. Rezko’s development firm had planned to build about 4,600 residential units and 670,000 square feet of retail space on the site at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street. Instead, General Mediterranean put the site on the market earlier this year, although the litigation is likely to complicate efforts to sell it.

No word yet from Chicago Mob linked Alderman Ed Burke on this story.

Obama's Auchi Problem

The Beachwood Reporter reports on billionaire and "friend" of Tony Rezko :

Auchi is apparently still appealing a 2003 fraud conviction in France. He visited Chicago and Detroit in 2004, but wasn't allowed back in the country in 2005.

"Prosecutors in Mr. Rezko's case have said that Mr. Rezko asked Illinois officials to help obtain a visa for Mr. Auchi's visit to Chicago," the Times says. "The officials have not been identified, and Mr. Obama's campaign has said he was not involved in that effort."

Let me ask you a question: You're Tony Rezko and you've bankrolled Barack Obama's entire political career. You helped him buy his house and you and your wife socialize with him and his wife. You've held a reception for a potential investor in which you invited Obama, who had just been elected to the United States Senate, to impress your business partner. And you appeal to Illinois officials to help him get a visa. Are you telling me you do not ask for Obama's help?

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Obama's campaign says the senator "does not recall" meeting Auchi. There's a lot he didn't "recall" about Rezko either for quite awhile. You know, like actually knowing him.

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Via RezkoWatch:

"Rick Moran of Pajamas Media reminds us that, during his March 14, 2008, exclusive interview with the editorial board and reporters of the Chicago Sun-Times, "Obama denies helping Auchi in any way with his visa [in 2005] but can't vouch for his staff":

Q: Did you ever help Auchi enter the country?

A: No.

Q: Or your office?

A: Not that I know of.

The ethics of the one.Steve Rhodes summarizes the situation:

Tony Rezko pimped out Barack Obama to impress Nadhmi Auchi, a bad operator who found the political culture in Chicago and Illinois amenable to his kind of investment acumen. The only problem was that Rezko's deal was in trouble, and Rezko himself was caught up in, among other scandals, a minority-contracting scam with the Dalely administration. At the same time, Rezko was wheeling and dealing with the Blagojevich administration and everyone in the political universe knew he was under federal investigation for it but Obama asked for his help buying a $1.6 million mansion and appeared at a couple of events to help Rezko impress Auchi and others.

Now Obama's memory is faulty because there's that pesky question of judgement, as well as the stain on his meticulously burnished image as a beacon of hope and reform because his relationship with both Rezko and the Machine and politics-as-usual is deeper than he's ever cared to admit.

Obama,Rezko,and Nadhmi Auchi

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