Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) ties with indicted Chicago developer Antoin Rezko are back in the news after Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) brought them up in last Monday’s Democratic presidential debate. Obama has “been accused of no wrongdoing” in the case against Rezko – who is scheduled to begin trial next month – but his relationship with the businessman dates back to before the beginning of his political career in the early 1990s. (Chicago Tribune)
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