NewGeography.com Questions Chicago Press Complicity In Illinois Corruption
Pay-to-Play Editorial Staff Steve Bartin, writing for the website NewGeography.com, in an article entitled “Blago’s Historic Sentencing: Organized Crime in Illinois,” asks an important question. One...
View ArticleThe Fitz Solution to Corruption: The Citizens Report It
Jontel Kassidy, Senior Capital Correspondent While commenting on Blago’s prison sentence, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald repeated what has become for him a common theme: Illinois citizens are...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Fitzgerald has known of Frawley’s Obama-bribe accusation
Jontel Kassidy, Senior Capital Correspondent Since at least last January 22nd, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has known of Daniel Frawley’s claim that he gave Tony Rezko $400,000 in cash that Rezko...
View ArticleMission Accomplished: Blago Joins Rezko in the Silence Chamber of Federal Prison
Hugo Floriani, Investigative Reporter The crime spree that plagued Illinois, and that was boldly brought to a stop by the sudden arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich, is now officially over. Blago is...
View ArticleWikiLeaks on the Auchi-Rezko-Blago Connection
Thomas Barton, Illinois Pay-to-Play Political Commentator The photo above originally appeared in a “Middle East website” and shows, left to right, Nadhmi Auchi, then Governor Rod Blagojevich, and a man...
View ArticlePat Quinn, destined to be third in the trifecta of jailed IL governors?
Martin Rivers, Introducing Illinois PayToPlay’s Springfield Correspondent Is a third Illinois governor in- a-row destined for a trip up-the-river to the Big House? That’s Blago on the left, on a bad...
View ArticleAnother Mission Accomplished: Frawley joins Blago and Rezko in the Silence...
<<BREAKING NEWS>> Thomas Barton, Illinois Pay-to-Play Political Commentator On April 19, 2012, Federal Judge Ronald Guzman sentenced Daniel T. Frawley to one year and one day in...
View ArticleThe Frawley-Cooley emails, more to come
Ernie Souchak, Editor-in-Chief, Illinois PayToPlay Since last February 27, Illinois PayToPlay (IP2P) has posted five emails sent to Robert “Bob” Cooley by Daniel T. Frawley. Here are links to the...
View ArticleThe Sun Tribune, Chicago’s Newspaper Combine
Annabel Kent, Chicago Media Critic Chicago Tribune columnist and political satirist John Kass coined the term “combine” to refer to the combination of Illinois pols from both the Democrat and...
View ArticleHey Chicago Tribune: What’s on the secret Blagojevich tapes?
Ernie Souchak, Editor-in-Chief A reliable source informs IP2P that Tribune Company spokesman Gary Weitman has stated, for-the-record, that the decision to publish or not publish the Blagojevich wiretap...
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