The Prosecution’s “Ladder”
Published by Al Adomite on June 5th, 2008
It seems almost everyone is talking about the Rezko Verdict today. Even my wife saw the headline on Drudge yesterday. I thought I’d point us back to a December 2005 Chicago Magazine article about Joe Cari that summarizes and chronologically narrates some of the connections and about how prosecutors are looking at this case.
Granted, some things have probably changed and gained better focus in 2.5 years, but this paragraph sums up the meat of the politics of this case, and why prosecutors would like to turn yesterday’s conviction into a new state’s witness:
According to the plea agreement, Levine told Cari that someone identified in the document as Public Official A, working through two associates, had used the system as a campaign fundraising strategy. Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, declined to comment. But a source familiar with the case confirms news reports that the two associates are the construction mogul Chris Kelly and the businessman Tony Rezko, two members of the kitchen cabinet of Blagojevich-who himself is said to be Public Official A.
The Chris Kelly trial is scheduled to start in November.
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