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Source links Obama to corruption case

Published: Jan. 19, 2008 at 1:30 PM
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CHICAGO, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been linked to an ongoing corruption case against one of his campaign fundraisers, it was reported Saturday.

According to an unidentified source, the contender for the Democratic presidential nomination was indirectly referred to in a document from the corruption case against fundraiser Tony Rezko, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The document is a 78-page statement from prosecutors in which they outline their corruption and fraud case against Rezko and refer to an unidentified "political candidate."

Rezko has been accused of forcing a firm to pay him $250,000 in relation to the group's work with state teacher pension investments in Illinois. The source said $10,000 of that money was later donated to Obama's run for the U.S. Senate, the Sun-Times reported.

Despite the allegations from the source that Obama is that unnamed "candidate," the Illinois senator has not been accused of any wrongdoing and is not named in a court document from the case.



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