Did Rezko find jobs for Obama staffers?
Did Barack Obama use indicted campaign fund-raiser Tony Rezko as a conduit to get jobs for people in Gov. Blagojevich's administration?
The question arises from a list of 39 people Rezko's lawyers said in a court filing he urged Blagojevich to give state jobs.
Among those on the list were two people who appear to have Obama links and a third who's now an Obama presidential campaign staffer.
But did the names come from Obama? His campaign staff's short answer: Don't know -- but it's possible.
"We do not know how decisions were made to fill specific state positions, and we have no records of any individual recommendations we were asked to make or made," says Obama spokesman Bill Burton "But we do know that Tony Rezko, among others, was helping to gather names for the positions coming open with a new administration, and, if it is established any names came through our office, we would have no reason to doubt it."
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this isn't exactly a biggest scandal in the history of politics, but it is emblematic of the greater scrutiny that
The BarackStar! is now receiving. the guy is/was a part of a "big city political machine"; it's almost impossible
to exist in that environment for any length of time without getting defiled to some extent.
