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... back to her grandfather and she as well as another advisor and former employer of Barack Obama, AllisonDavis have both been involved in shady real estate deals that used government grants to develop public housing that was later seized by the government, cited for thousands of code violations or simply abandoned as uninhabitable.
For the moment forget about Tony Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, Rev Wright, Rev Pfleger, Franklin Raines, Larry Walsh, Nadhmi Auchi, Martin Nesbitt, Valerie Jarrett, AllisonDavis, Saul Alinsky or any other of Barack Obama’s controversial circle of friends, advisers, associates, colleagues or whatever you care to define them as. The simple fact [...]
... example” of urban revitalization. One of the developers of Stateway Gardens is a firm headed by AllisonDavis, who has contributed tens of thousands to Obama’s campaigns over the years, but neither Davis nor his firm will receive any of the HUD money. That’s it. That’s the whole scandal. As part of a grant application, a public housing authority included letters of support...
Obama ’s Friends and Chicago’s New Slums By Lee Cary [See also “Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers” here.] “Mayor Daley’s always talking about fair housing and decent housing, and he’s got AllisonDavis, who he appointed on the planning commission,” says Smith, who heads the tenants association that represents Evergreen/Sedgwick residents. “We still live in a slum.” [...]
| September 16, 2008 | Lee Cary Excerpted (Very lengthy)[See also "Obama and South Chicago Slum Developers" .][See also | June 27, 2008 | Boston Globe] "Mayor Daley's always talking about fair housing and decent housing, and he's got AllisonDavis, who he appointed on the planning commission," says Smith, who heads the tenants association that represents Evergreen/Sedgwick residents....
Q. At the time of those deals, Tony Rezko was a client of the senator's firm, a campaign donor to the senator, a personal friend, and a business partner with the senator's boss, AllisonDavis. But Mr. Rezko was also a landlord to many constituents living in the state Senate district that Senator Obama represented at the time. And many of those Rezmar properties had fallen into disrepair,...
... elected to the Illinois State Senate, although he continued to work summers at law firm. 1997 — AllisonDavis left the Miner Barnhill & Galland law firm to become now-convicted political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s partner. Davis formed New Kenwood LLC to build a 7-story apartment building for senior citizens on a vacant stretch of land once owned by the City of Chicago. Nearly...
It examines Obama's tacit acceptance of the corrupt politics of Chicago and Illinois, his endorsements of unqualified Democratic machine creatures to secure the machine's blessing, his use of technicalities in state ethics legislation to bury potential conflicts of interest, and his dealings with , now convicted, and with City Hall-friendly developer AllisonDavis.There's also a chapter...
