Did Roland Burris’s Business Partner Help Patti Blagojevich Land Her Job?

Did Roland Burris’s Business Partner Help Patti Blagojevich Land Her Latest Job?
Did Roland Burris’s business partner, Fred Lebed, have anything to do with Patti Blagojevich landing a full-time job as development director of the Chicago Christian Industrial League?
Lebed, who served on Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s transition team, also serves on CCIL’s Board of Directors.
The question was raised on Sunday night by political pundit Bruce Dumont on his XM Satellite radio show “Beyond the Beltway.” I was a guest, along with writer Salim Muwakkil and Judy Baar Topinka, the former state treasurer who ran against Blagojevich for governor.
When Patti Blagojevich, for the time being, at least, the first lady of Illinois, found her real estate activities scrutinized by the feds–some political insiders expected Patti to be indicted before Rod–she switched careers to the nonprofit CCIL which helps the poor and homeless.
Since 2002, Roland Burris, who will likely soon be the junior senator from Illinois unless something oozes up to taint his reputation, has been partners with Lebed in Burris & Lebed Consulting, LLC. Their website notes that both are registered lobbyists and that “their vast network of relationships are unmatched and stretch within every corner of Illinois and many of the major metropolitan areas in the country.
The website also boasts: “Burris & Lebed Consulting represents numerous clients in front of the Chicago City Council, Cook County Board of Commissioners, suburban local governments, other governmental units across Illinois, Illinois General Assembly, the Governor’s Office and other local elected and appointed officials. ”
Could the Lebed/CCIL/Patti Blagojevich connection provide Senators Harry Reid and Dick Durbin with the ammunition they need to keep the man whose tombstone trumpets himself as a “Trail Blazer,” from joining their club?

And there is also this……………
Uncomfortable spotlight shone on Patti Blagojevich
Chicago Tribune
Her real estate deals are under federal scrutiny, and her rants, now infamous, stand out on descriptions of recordings taken from Blagojevich family home
Even before her voice was heard on covert recordings made by federal investigators, First Lady Patricia Blagojevich was neck-deep in the federal probe of her husband and his administration.
Once a residential real estate broker on the North Side, Patricia Blagojevich left that career this year amid scrutiny from the Tribune and federal agents who have for a year been examining whether clients hired her to win favor from her husband’s administration.
But her decision to change careers didn’t seem to slow the investigation, which sped up in recent weeks after federal agents tapped the Blagojevich’s phones and caught the first lady joining her husband on calls in which he talked about how his authority to pick President-elect Barack Obama’s replacement in the U.S. Senate could be leveraged to help find her a seat on paid corporate boards.
Before that, though, federal agents—following years of news coverage—were probing hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions Patricia Blagojevich earned in previous years as a real estate broker for political supporters, fundraisers and state contractors.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
The party of corruption and the beat goes on and on and on. They do love to keep the corruption in the family too.
I’m glad these vermin are being exposed. Patti Blagojevich was the real estate broker of record in the crooked Tony Rezko deal giving Barack Hussein Obama his Chicago mansion.

….Thank you Eden for sending this to me.