Will the Chicago Machine corruption story break wide open in 2010?

If you think Chicago crook and long-time Obama buddy Antoin Rezko is serving out his jail sentence, think again.

Antoin “Tony” Rezko is a forgotten man. During the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton tried to make Barack Obama’s connection with Rezko an issue.


On June 4, 2008, Rezko was convicted in federal court on 16 charges of corruption. For a day or so, he was big news.


After that, a national media that ignored Obama’s connections with the corrupt Chicago political machine lost all interest in Rezko.  After all, there was an “historic” election to influence, and anything that made Obama’s shady past the subject of a national conversation had to be squelched. (more…)