Who's Dirty, Who Isn't?

You'd hate to think that anyone would involve their spouse in shady business dealings. After all, if one party got caught, at least someone would be out of jail to raise the kids while the other party spent some time in prison. At least, that's what normal people would think.

• Within months after first lady earned nearly $50,000 in a real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, several of his associates were appointed to state boards and hired by state agencies, according to a published report.
  
  Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office acknowledged last year that Patti Blagojevich has had a business relationship with developer and fundraiser for at least eight years. Records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times for Friday's editions reveals for the first time that a deal between her and Rezko and the state's hiring of Rezko's associates occurred around the same time.
  
  The governor's office denies that the real estate transaction and the appointments and hirings are related.

Of course they deny that anything is related. Then you might recall that Patti Blagojevich is the daughter of Aldercreature Dick Mell, and Dick Mell is nothing if not a player in the great political game that is Chicago. Dick Mell MADE Rod Blagojevich and Rod has been nipping at the hand that made him for a while now. And of course, Patti may have learned quite a bit from her father's years of political gamesmanship and business dealings.

And the game continues.

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