Obama Partied with Crook Rezko & "taste for blood" Saddam hatchet man Auchi

Obama was partying with extortionist thug Antoin Rezko and blood for money dealer Nadhmi Auchi at a party in 2004. Auchi was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Iraqi President Abdul-Karim Qasim in 1959. Qasim was injured while his bodyguard was killed; Saddam managed to flee the country. Auchi was arrested for delivering weapons to the assassins but was later pardoned by President Qasim. Auchi is currently barred from entering the US by the state department as an undesirable alien.^[3](more here)

Obama appeared at 2004 party at Rezko's home Chicago Tribune hat tip cherie

April 14, 2008; 12:57 p.m.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's name came up again at the Antoin "Tony" Rezko corruption trial and in a way that earlier filings in the case did not telegraph.

Stuart Levine, the prosecution's star witness, said he and Obama were at a party Rezko threw at his Wilmette mansion on April 3, 2004, for Nadhmi Auchi, a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who Rezko was trying to get to invest in a South Loop real-estate development.

Auchi, now a citizen of the United Kingdom, has faced criminal charges in Europe. He also figured in the revocation of Rezko's bond early this year after attempting to wire him more than $3 million. Upon learning of that attempt, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve declared Rezko a flight risk and ordered him held in a federal jail in the Loop.

The Rezko party in 2004 was designed to induce Auchi to pour money into the South Loop investment. Obama's presence at the party was not previously known. At the time, Obama was fresh off a surprise win in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and was riding a crest of national publicity.

More on Auchi here (Jack Kelly RealClearPolitics):

A great deal of Mr. Auchi's money was made doing business with the regime of Saddam Hussein, much of it under the table. In 1987, Mr. Auchi helped French and Italian firms win a huge oil pipeline contract in Iraq, chiefly by paying off Iraqi officials, according to testimony given by an Italian banker to prosecutors in Milan. In 2003, he was convicted for his role in what was then the largest scandal in French history, involving payoffs from executives of the oil company now known as Total to political figures in Spain, Germany and Africa.

Oil for food bloodsucker.

"He has been able to collect British politicians the way other people collect stamps," wrote Nick Cohen in a 2003 profile of Mr. Auchi in the left wing British newspaper the Observer.

Mr. Auchi was a leading supplier of arms to Saddam's regime. A former Belgian ambassador to Luxembourg charged that a bank in Luxembourg owned principally by Mr. Auchi laundered funds -- including oil for food money -- for Saddam and other Islamic dictators.

The London Times describes him this way:

London's left-wing Guardian newspaper described him like this in 2003:

He was charged in the 1950s with being an accomplice of Saddam Hussein, when the future tyrant was acquiring his taste for blood. He was investigated in the 1980s for his part in alleged bribes to the fabulously corrupt leaders of post-war Italy. In the 1990s, the Belgium Ambassador to Luxembourg claimed that Auchi's bank held money Saddam and Colonel Gadaffi had stolen from their luckless peoples. In 2002, officers from the Serious Fraud Squad raided the offices of one of Auchi's drug companies as part of an investigation of what is alleged to be the biggest swindle ever of the NHS. With allegations, albeit unproven, like these hanging over him, wouldn't you think that British MPs would have the sense to stay away?

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Comments

[chsw]

Auchi is even sleazier than you have written. The only reason that Auchi is in the UK is that as head of Iraq's central bank, he allegedly skimmed too much for Saddam Hussein to tolerate. No one knows how much he stole or where it is stashed. FWIU, the present government of Iraq wants the stolen money. Nevertheless, the leaders of the minor Gulf states have used him to broker deals with European companies. Perhaps they see Auchi as the People's Republic of China saw Johnny Chung and the Lippo Group, as conduits for cash and influence.

Isn't the potential conflict of interest obvious enough? Oily cash from the Gulf states might influence American policy. Senator Clinton is not immune from such a charge. Her husband has been rewarded handsomely for advising these petty sheikhdoms. Hence, Ms. Clinton has the same conflict of interest. Clinton and Obama - what a pair of jackasses!

chsw

[ajacksonian]

Looking at Nadhmi Auchi we find him at once removed from the other two candidates, also. His web of contacts is huge, stretching into the Red Mafia, to the al Qaeda and HAMAS banking networks, via Marc Rich to the Iranian funds system... the man is dirty.

[siddah]

Keep up the heat. We in Chicago know the Swiss Obama Cheese has nothing to offer except leftist diatribes.