On Aug 30, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Chuck Bennett wrote: > Is that all they've got? Resco is far worse.. A sweetheart deal > for a house you can't cat afford from a crook and now convicted felon?
Rezko. But, how was it a sweetheart deal? Asking price was 1.95 million, Obama paid 1.65 million, which was the highest offer on the property. Sounds like he negotiated, but it's a reasonable outcome and it's not like he brought the house from Rezko anyway. Rezko bought the house next door, and I'm perfectly willing to believe that Rezko wanted to be next-door neighbor to a Senator, but that's nothing Obama did. Later, Obama paid $104,500 for a strip of Rezco's land (assessed at around half that), in order to erect a fence. So... Obama bought a house, someone bad bought the house next to him, and then Obama spent twice market value to put a fence between them. Clearly, Rezko's a sleaze, and there's enough smoke here to trigger a closer look, but there's no fire here, and people have been trying hard to find it for a while. Now, if you want to talk about influence peddling, we can talk about the Keating Five. :-) -Patrick _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
