Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for Obama's earlier political campaigns

In a just published interview with Sen. Barack Obama, the Chicago Tribune
reports:

Indicted Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko was a more significant
fundraiser for presidential candidate Barack Obama's earlier political campaigns than previously known. Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for the first three offices Obama sought, the senator told the Tribune on Friday.

Obama also said for the first time that his private real estate transactions with Rezko involved repeated lapses of judgment. The mistake, Obama said, was not simply that Rezko was under grand jury investigation at the time of their 2005 and 2006 dealings. "The mistake was he had been a contributor and somebody involved in politics," he said.

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i found that extremely hard to believe, but i'm betting eventually those favors will bubble to the surface.