A supporter of Barack Obama has been charged in a $10 million fraud scheme.
Remember Antoin Rezko? When Obama bought a little mansion on Chicago's South Side for $300,000 less than the asking price, that very same day Antoin "Tony" Rezko a Democrat Party fund raiser bought an adjacent empty lot at the asking price from the same owner that sold Obama the house. Coincidence? Wait, there's more.
Six months later Rezko, an old acquaintance of Barak sold him 1,500 square feet of the property giving Obama a nice side yard. Rezko has since been charged with trying to shake down investment firms that wanted to do business with the state. He and his wife had donated $11,500 personally to the 2004 Obama Senate campaign, which Obama eventually donated to the Better Boys Foundation in Chicago two weeks after Rezko's indictment.
Now, Ali Ata, the former executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority, has been charged with trying to help Rezko in a fraud scheme. It turns out that Ata donated $5,000 to Obama's Senate campaign. When questioned by AP, Obama's spokesman Bill Burton said $5,000 from the Senate campaign account would be donated to an unspecified charity.
Is that all it takes? When you're caught taking donations and dealing with known unsavory characters you just give the money to charity and all is forgiven and forgotten? It seems to have as much power as going to rehab. Yet, that's how the press treats liberals, giving them a special amnesty.
True ethics requires making every attempt to remain above reproach and I remain unconvinced that it is the goal of most politicians.
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