Witness: Fund Raiser spoke of plan to fire the USA lawyer
A government witness testified Monday of a prominent political Fundraiser governor told him three years ago that Chicago’s Chief Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office allegedly set fire and replaced by a person selected by the time U.S. - House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Restaurant owner Elie Maloof testified that Antoin “Tony” Rezko told him that the person to replace Patrick J. Fitzgerald USA as a prosecutor in Chicago, ending a federal investigation of corruption Rod Blagojevich Dir.
“The federal government would no longer counsel for the Confederation prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald could have been eliminated,” said Maloof Rezko’s Trial fraud.
Prosecutors said last week that the former authority of the Illinois Finance Director Ali Ata, which deals with witnesses was as early as Thursday, show Rezko told him of a plan to replace Fitzgerald.
Prosecutors said U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve, that would say Ata, he spoke with Rezko on these efforts on the part of Springfield lobbyist Robert Kjellander and former presidential candidate adviser Karl Rove.
Kjellander never refused, he had also discussed something. Roves lawyer Robert Luskin, said that he did not recall his client, Kjellander never speak with him Fitzgerald and it is certain that he never spoke to others at the White House on the removal of Fitzgerald.
U.S. attorneys are appointed by the president, but traditionally a senior senator of the president of the party.
Maloof’s testimony Monday was the first time, came the name for Hastert’s Trial Rezko.
An adviser to Hastert, Brad Hahn, said Hastert had never heard something of a plan to dismiss Fitzgerald. He said that the testimony was confusing.
“We can not begin to speculate, unless this is what is proposed,” said the tap.
Rezko, 52, Split is scheming A $ 1.5 million in bribes from a partnership contract, wanted authorization for the construction of a hospital in McHenry County suburb of Crystal Lake.
It is also responsible for scheming to put pressure on companies to bribe their public companies with a pension fund for teachers.
Rezko denies participation in such a regime.
Prosecutors say he has made enormous sums of money to Blagojevich campaign and later won the strike force policy to handle big-money decisions concerning hospitals and businesses have their business with the pension fund. Blagojevich was not at fault.
The process began on March 3 and repression is now in its final phase. The Court referred the jury of holidays, Tuesday and Wednesday and the provisional government provides the rest early next week.
Since the takeover the USA, the prosecutor in the September 2001, Fitzgerald has a vigorous attack on corruption, sending ex-Dir George Ryan, and a number of other policies initiated by Federal Prison.
Last year, the burning of several U.S. attorneys across the country a reaction on Capitol Hill, where the legislator in question, if the trains were politically motivated. Alberto Gonzales joined later, as Attorney General.
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