Oopsie Daisy...... My life as an FBI mole..... Uh oh!!!!!

[boston bean]

For the first time, the FBI "mole" who's expected to be a key prosecution witness against indicted developer and political fund-raiser Tony Rezko is talking.

In an exclusive interview with the Sun-Times, John Thomas said his life became frantic as he amassed hundreds of hours of recorded conversations for federal investigators while trying to maintain the real estate business he built on pluck and hustle.

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"Now, all I want is a little bit of peace," says John Thomas, an FBI mole expected to be a key witness against Tony Rezko.
(Scott Stewart/Sun-Times)

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The Mole
Some key dates and events in the life of FBI mole John Thomas:

Late 1990s — Ran a Manhattan company that leased billboard space. Stole several hundred thousand dollars from clients’ credit cards. Helps federal authorities in probe of mob influence in billboards.

2000 — Changes name from Bernard Barton Jr. and relocates to Chicago, where he starts a brokerage, Carnegie Realty Partners LLC, and a billboard company.

2003 — Signs on to represent developer Jeffrey Grossman in a condominium deal at 60 W. Erie. Within days, Grossman is arrested for bank fraud, and Thomas agrees to help the feds. Grossman and Donald Grauer later plead guilty.

2004 — Thomas pleads guilty in New York fraud, gets the case transferred to Chicago. Yet to be sentenced, Thomas begins cooperating with feds’ probe of developer and political fund-raiser Tony Rezko, with a focus on Rezko’s financing deals on 62 acres at Roosevelt and Clark and vacant land at the southwest corner of Chicago and Hudson.

2005 — Still cooperating with prosecutors, Thomas builds business portfolio and attempts several downtown development deals.

2007 — He’s publicly identified as a government mole in the Rezko case.
A fly on the wall
"Now," Thomas said, "all I want is a little bit of peace."

Thomas wouldn't discuss details of his work for the FBI.

But sources said that, for more than two years when he was giving information to agents, Thomas provided a fly-on-the-wall look inside Rezko's real estate operations and his desperate attempts to keep his projects afloat.

Sources said Thomas also logged frequent visits to Rezko from Gov. Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Blagojevich and Obama were among the many politicians for whom Rezko raised campaign cash. Neither has been charged with any wrongdoing.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/786015,CST-NWS-mole10.article



This guy has spilled the beans about Rezko's frequent visits to Obama.

[scheming daemons]

1. Desperation of Clinton supporters reaches all time high....

...America not interested in Rezko.....


....but keep trying.


It's all you have left.

[fascisthunter]

2. Plan B

Lose Maine and well.... you get the rest.

[thunder rising]

3. There is no enuendo to small for the Hillary camps to wave out as fact.

[boston bean]

9. This is an article in the Tribune, not just some silly thought off the top of my head. nt

[flyarm]

4. i am an Edwards supporter and do not support either standing candidate yet..

so please do not smear those of us who are seeking the truth...it is below all dems ...or do we only look into the backgrounds of Repubs?? is that who we are as dems?..well not me..i want to know everything about any candidate i might support...that is part of who i am as a democrat.

fly


( READ THIS) no one knows where Fitz will take this ..his office does not leak..
my question still remains..
why did Obama take money for this campaign when this crap has been being investigated so long?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4525501&mesg_id=4527584

Edited on Sun Feb-10-08 07:31 PM by flyarm

THIS INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN GOING ON A LONG TIME..CHECK THIS OUT!


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/200...

The man behind CIA leak inquiry
Special prosecutor said to be immune to political pressure
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Sunday, October 23, 2005

here is an old article..and here you see where this may lead..asnd i say ..may..lead..

snip:

Fitzgerald's 161-attorney office is busy on other fronts as well. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was questioned in his City Hall office for two hours in August in connection with an ongoing scandal involving alleged violations of a 40-year-old court order that bars most political patronage in Chicago. And Fitzgerald's office also is looking into fundraising for the campaigns of Ryan's successor, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat.

snip:

"He's one of those rare individuals who follows the law wherever it goes. He doesn't care what the public thinks,'' said Adrienne Drell, who teaches at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

A longtime reporter at the downtown Chicago federal building, Drell has known every U.S. attorney in the city since James R. Thompson, a Republican who parlayed his prosecution of Kerner and other Chicago politicians into a victory in the Illinois governor's race in 1976.

"Fitzgerald is as straight as they come,'' she said.

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, criminal defense attorney and a longtime observer of the capital's investigations, surmises that Fitzgerald has prevented leaks in the Plame case by not using a prosecutor's tactic of disclosing information to selected reporters as a way of pressuring witnesses or possible defendants.


**oh yeah and look at this artyicle..written in Oct 2005..this investigation has been going on a long time..so now..just now Obama took money from this crook..and didn't have any idea he was taking money from an indicted man??????????

oh yeah..i sure believe that...well one person who won't be swayed by that bullshi tis Fitzgerald.

fly

[boston bean]

7. thanks fly, it's nice to know some people want to hear truth and read real articles.

not just poo poo on the poster.

[thevoiceofreason]

5. This is the 6th or 7th thread on this

[boston bean]

6. not this one, that I was aware of.

[BeatleBoot]

8. I agree. Not this one..

Keep telling the truth, MassDem.


It shall set you free

[boston bean]

10. Thanks Beatle. I plug along! nt

[flyarm]

11. K&R..people need to read this!

[sjdnb]

12. So, far no guilt or innocence has been proven ... both Obama and Clinton supporters

need to keep an open mind and judge on the facts that come to light during the trial.

But, to summarily dismiss any thought that Obama may be implicated is as equally pig-headed as assuming he is guilty of some wrongdoing.