Could this be a reason for Obama's unpopular Syrian refugee push?

[Revmitchell]

President Barack Obama’s longest-running Syrian problem may not but refugees, but Chicago’s powerful Syrian-American “godfather” Antoin “Tony” Rezko who was released from a federal penitentiary in July.

Rezko was born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, and came to the United States in the 1970s. Before his arrest and imprisonment, he became Chicago’s most influential Syrian-American. He also was Obama’s political adviser, personal friend and biggest Arab-American fundraiser.

Importantly, Rezko introduced Obama to the city’s Arab-American activist groups, including the Arab American Action Network whose leader’s home was once raided by the FBI. Rezko has not given interviews since his release.

He was convicted in 2010 of 16 federal counts involving fraud, money laundering and kickbacks for government contracts that included securing state jobs for Arab-Americans, many of whom had no qualifications for the posts. He spent seven years in prison.


Rezko’s re-emergence in Chicago’s Arab American politics could raise uncomfortable issues for the president about his controversial transactions with Rezko, as well as his relationship with Chicago’s strident Arab-American community.

The Rezko-Obama story began when the Syrian-American tried to recruit Obama out of law school. Instead, Obama joined a small Chicago activist law firm that also did business with Rezko.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/23/heres-obamas-other-syrian-problem/

 

[carpro]

So, Obama's buddy and criminal benefactor is out of prison.

Interesting...

 

[Rob_BW]

That's way better than my theory that President Obama is a Mac guy and Steve Jobs' biological father was Syrian.

 

[poncho]

Why are we calling these people refugees all of a sudden? Seems like most of them (young men of fighting age) are migrants seeking the freebies Obama and the democrats have promised them once they get here.

 

[777]

Tony Rezko? Now that name is a blast from the past - didn't he get in some shady real estate deal with Obama years ago, something about a vacant lot in Chicago?

I'd forgotten he was from Syria. It's true that many of the refugees aren't Syrian after all and do all seem like young single men. Few women, few children, few elderly people.