Brian Cave Law firm, Rezko and Obama ... Fitzgerald casts a broader net

[Iceburg]

It appears that Fitzgerald has many other cases beyond this specific case to be brought forward....

Another law firm surfaces in Rezko case
BY AMEET SACHDEV
March 4, 2008
The name of the Bryan Cave law firm has come up in pretrial legal battles in the criminal case against politically connected entrepreneur Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

In a footnote to a motion last week seeking to exclude some government evidence against Rezko, his defense lawyers disclosed for first time that prosecutors have alleged that Rezko paid a $1.5 million bribe to Iraq's former electricity minister to obtain a contract in that country. The alleged bribe was paid from an escrow account held by Bryan Cave, prosecutors said.

more at Chicago Tribune

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Bryan Cave, a law firm, gave big to Obama:

BRYAN CAVE - 250.00
BRYAN CAVE LLP - 9,386.00
BRYAN CAVE, LLC - 200.00

figures from Barack Obama: Whose Money Is This?

[Alamom]

1. k&r

[sharp_stick]

2. It's an escrow account, so what

Are you implying that Rezco used the Bryan Cave escrow account to pay Obama? I don't see an issue here, at least not yet.

When money is paid from my escrow account it goes out under my name not the name of the legal office that holds it. Are things different in Illinois?

[Iceburg]

3. Bryan Cave ... one of Obama's K-street players/lobbyists...

The Hill

Obama’s K Street project
By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 03/28/07 07:42 PM
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is benefiting from the support of well-connected Washington lobbyists even though he has prohibited his campaign from accepting contributions from them and political action committees (PACs).
{apparently they ARE making contributions}
....

Other K Street players working to build momentum for Obama are former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), a consultant for Alston & Bird; Broderick Johnson, president of Bryan Cave Strategies LLC; Mark Keam, the lead Democratic lobbyist at Verizon; Jimmy Williams, vice president of government affairs for the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America; Thomas Walls, vice president of federal public affairs at McGuireWoods Consulting; and Francis Grab, senior manager at Washington Council Ernst & Young.

[Sir Jeffrey]

4. Bryan Cave is a huge international law firm...

with an office in Chicago. They have over 800 attorneys worldwide.

They also donated $2300 to Hillary Clinton's exploratory campaign:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expend.asp?strID=C00332643&Cycle=2008

on edit:

Just found their 2008 PAC donations. They gave Clinton's campaign another $2300 in 2008.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.asp?strID=C00332643&Cycle=2008

BFD.