184 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyTHEN: TINKER TO EVERS TO CHANCE;
NOW: ALSAMMARAE TO AUCHI TO REZKO TO OBAMA
Obama has boasted and strutted about his alleged October 2002 speech opposing the idea of a
US attack on Iraq, but it is quite possible that blood money looted from the Coalition Provisional
Authority may have found its way into Obama’s infamous Kenwood mansion. The old Chicago
Cubs double play went from Tinker to Evers to Chance. Obama’s new triple play of corruption may
have gone from Alsammarae to Auchi to Rezko to Obama, with the US taxpayer being one of the
main victims. As Jerome Corsi commented, “Following this twisted trail of suspicious millions,
investigative reporters have drawn a line from Obama to Rezko to Saddam Hussein’s Oil for Food
scandal, with the key connecting point being billionaire Nadhmi Auchi.”^71
Most of the funding of Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority came from the Bush regime,
and this was the money appropriated from the Iraqi Electricity Ministry by Alsammarae. Might
Alsammarae then have transferred some of these funds to Auchi in London in the course of certain
joint ventures in which these two were engaged? Might some of those same dollars then have
made up part of a $3.5 million loan from Auchi to Rezko? Such money might have helped Rezko
recoup some of his largesse to Barky involved in the earlier below-cost purchase of the lot next door
to Obama’s mansion, a transaction which was indispensable to allow Barky and Michelle to get
control of the property they wanted and later to expand the size of their yard:
When Obama bought his mansion in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood, Rezko’s wife Rita,
purchased adjoining land for $625,000 – land that the house’s owners insisted on selling at the
same time. Seven months later, she sold the Obamas one-sixth of her lot, for $105,000, so they
could expand their yard.^72
According to another account, this time from a left liberal source:
Troubling to the Obamas’ image of civic rectitude is their entanglement with a campaign
contributor named Antoin (Tony) Rezko in a 2005 real-estate deal. (Rezko is now awaiting trial
on corruption charges.) That year, as the Tribune reported, the Obamas moved to a $1.65-
million Georgian Revival mansion in Hyde Park, which features a thousand-bottle wine cellar
and bookcases made of Honduran mahogany. On the day they bought the house, Rita Rezko,
Tony’s wife, purchased the adjacent lot, which was wooded and empty, for $625,000. After the
deal went through, Michelle contacted the city’s landmarks commission, which she had served
on, and received an e-mail from a deputy commissioner with suggestions for obtaining permits
to erect a fence between the parcels. The Obamas paid for legal, architectural, and landscaping
work, while Rezko got the bill for the fence’s construction, for fourteen thousand dollars. (New
Yorker, March 11, 2008)
The impudence and flagrance of this corrupt transaction underline once again what can only be
called Obama’s megalomania, a sense that he has been absolved of obedience to the law in the same
way that earlier false messiahs have proclaimed the suspension of all the rules. It was reckless folly
for Obama to insist on getting the mansion with an assist from an organized crime figure, but he
went ahead anyway. This is the same kind of antinomian mentality which we can detect in the
crimes of presidents from Nixon to Bush. As Pringle comments,
Obama’s entering into real estate deals with Rezko, while it was public knowledge that he was
under investigation for funneling illegal contributions to Illinois politicians, was not a
“boneheaded” move, it was motivated by pure greed. While knowing that he would get caught
up in a major scandal, Obama went ahead with the deal because he and his wife wanted that