ABC News: $100,000 in Rezko-Linked Contributions Not Returned by Obama

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4192358&page=1


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ABCNews.com Review Shows an Additional $100,000 in Rezko-Linked Contributions Not Returned by the Campaign


Months after reporters started asking Sen. Barack Obama to account for contributions raised by longtime friend and donor Antoin "Tony" Rezko, questions remain about the full extent of the accused Illinois political fixer's role as a patron of Obama's political career.
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"We have returned any money that we know was associated to Mr. Rezko," Obama told Diane Sawyer on Wednesday morning during an appearance on "Good Morning America." "That is something that if there's additional information we don't know about, we'd be happy to return the money."

The Obama campaign says it has given away more than $85,000 in Rezko-linked contributions since Rezko was indicted on federal fraud and extortion charges in the fall of 2006.

An ABCNews.com review, however, has identified an additional $100,000 in contributions made to Obama from Rezko's associates that have not been returned, including $19,500 in contributions from Rezko's wife and employees of Rezko's business enterprises. The ABCNews.com review includes individuals who have been linked to Rezko in news reports, court documents and public records.

edit: PDF Link here: http://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/obama_rezko_contributions080125.pdf

[sunonmars]

1. Oh dear

caught lying again have we!

[durrrty libby]

5. That's "Hope" for ya. Got any "Change"?

[xultar]

2. Accounting of $ from assoicates is tough. Obama will return the $ and it will be no biggie. NEXT.

[jillan]

3. ooops.

[Alexander]

4. Rezko's associates? So is this guilt by association?

Hmm, the Clinton supporters didn't much like that when it was done to Hillary.

[xultar]

6. EXACTLY!

[shaniqua6392]

7. I just do not know what to think of him any more.

Some things just don't smell right. I want to like him but......

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. a lot of people care about this

a lot of people care about soap operas too. Both people have too much time on their hands.

[LiberalHeart]

9. Shows Edwards is right again: small donations from folks like us is the way to go.

[Adelante]

12. Edwards has had to return a good amount of money, as well nt

[SeattleGirl]

15. Drive-by slam! What money does he have to return?

I'd really like to know, so I can check it out.

[Occam Bandage]

17. Here you go. Returned $4600, still kept $81,000 that was raised by the bastard.

http://www.talkleft.com/wireservice?articleId=9065483&channelId=1180&buyerId=talkleftcom&buid=3042

[oviedodem]

10. So of all the thousands of people that have donated

You expect that ANY campaign is going to research each and every donor? Really come on. I would not expect Hillary to do that either. He probably returned what explicitly said "Rezko" on it or a company that he knew was affiliated.

[sabra]

11. PDF of analysis here:

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/obama_rezko_contributions080125.pdf

[Occam Bandage]

13. Rezko-linked? Reminds me of all the "Abramoff-linked" funds that Dems had.

[rinsd]

16. Its the taint theory.

Its why when the Hsu brouhaha came up, Hillary returned everything remotely associated with him.

As Xultar said upthread weeding out associates can be difficult and that the Obama campaign will likely straighten this out.

[Blackhatjack]

14. As I predicted "Death by a thousand cuts...." Obama needs to get EVERYTHING OUT once and for all

Or the bleeding is never going to stop.

[rodeodance]

18. Not just Rezko Assoc---But family and employees--see pdf file in IP

[oviedodem]

19. There is a total of $100,100 on that list Obama said he

returned $80K+

We are now arguing over $20K

Or am I missing something?

[BenDavid]

20. this is way worse than whitewater, where there was no crime