Alleged: Blago Hoped To Shake Down Warren Buffett!

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

This isn't any old corruption case we're dealing with (some as where the payoff to the politician was a new deck on his vacation house). We've got Senate seats for sale, threats to the Chicago Tribune, and now we learn that Blagojevich actually thought he might be able to rope Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett into his scheme.

From the complaint. Full complaint below:

On November 11, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with JOHN HARRIS about the Senate seat. ROD BLAGOJEVICH suggested starting a 501(c)(4) organization (a non-profit organization that may engage in political activity and lobbying) and getting “his (believed to be the President-elect’s) friend Warren Buffett or some of those guys to help us on something like that.” HARRIS asked, “what, for you?” ROD BLAGOJEVICH replied, “yeah.” Later in the conversation, ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that if he appoints Senate Candidate 4 to the Senate seat and, thereafter, it appears that ROD BLAGOJEVICH might get impeached, he could “count on , if things got hot, to give up and let me parachute over there.” HARRIS said, “you can count on to do that.” Later in the conversation, ROD BLAGOJEVICH said he knows that the President-elect wants Senate Candidate 1 for the Senate seat but “they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F**k them.”

How much was he hoping to get?

Later on November 11, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with Advisor A. Advisor A indicated that he will stay “on top” of getting the Senate Candidate 5 information leaked to the particular Sun Times columnist. ROD BLAGOJEVICH again raised the idea of the 501(c)(4) organization and asked whether “they” (believed be the President-elect and his associates) can get Warren Buffett and others to put $10, $12, or $15 million into the organization.

http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/alleged-blago-hoped-to-shake-down-warren-buffett

[monmouth]

1. This guy is definitely too dumb to be in Tony Soprano's club....LOL...n/t

[Cattledog]

2. Tony would have wacked him

long ago!

[monmouth]

3. Definitely, and bring the cannolis....n/t

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Not that he doesn't deserve it but. . .

what right-wing shit house did you drag that gif out of?

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

7. please LIGHTEN UP...for your own sake...

[Binka]

8. No Baby Snooks. Veg Does Not Need To Lighten Up You Do

You are not fooling anybody Cash. LOL. You are so in over your head. Just waiting.....

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

11. Who exactly am I "trying to fool." Please, you can keep waiting all you want to.

[Binka]

16. Thanks For Permission On A Site That I Support Cash

You on the other hand just got here and do not support and just spew endless BULLSHIT. Everything you have posted on this board is rubbish. Still waiting Baby Snooks.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

19. oh.

[rvablue]

10. Instead of lecturing people to "lighten up" won't don't you just provide

the provenance and we can do that lightening up on our own.

C'mon.....you're not nervous are you? :scared:

[rvablue]

9. Love how you get told to "lighten up" but the OP is "crickets" on the source....

so you were right! :yourock:

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

12. uh...or maybe I just haven't checked this site again yet?

this is so ridiculous, but here you go: http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/1796837.html

[Maru Kitteh]

14. thanks for the mouthbreathing FoxSnooze confirmation

You types just can't resist outing yourselves.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

20. um...what are u talking about? thats a livejournal community full of young OBAMA SUPPORTERS.

[ShortnFiery]

5. Perhaps we can now send him to Gitmo?

:eyes:

[Occam Bandage]

6. Love the MySpace'd pic.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. look harder OB, and read upthread.

OP has a........ history.

The kind that craves pizza but falls just shy of the proper phone call required to obtain said pizza.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

21. a history of what exactly?

maybe you didn't like my posts about Bush stripping away reproductive rights, my post about what I'd like Michelle to wear, etc?


but no, I'm a republican b/c i posted something from mediatakeout.com (because you know how much REPUBLICANS LOVE AND ARE ALWAYS CHECKING THOSE BLACK GOSSIP SITES LIKE MEDIA TAKE OUT AND THEYBF.COM). . .

[gravity]

13. Warren Buffett is untouchable

You have to be a fool to think that he will put his money into shady deals

[sohndrsmith]

17. and he thought he'd be successful?? Really?? n/t

[snowbear]

18. LOL!

I love that image you put up!



.....

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

22. THANK YOU. You would think I was making fun of Obama the way

some people reacted to it. Maybe they don't understand the references(the Fergie song, etc)...lol.

[Robb]

23. Buffett? HA! Reminds me of the Lucius line from Dark Knight...

"Let me get this straight. You think that your employer, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is spending his nights running around the city beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck." :rofl:

[Jennicut]

24. Nutcase. He is almost Cheney like in expecting people to go along with all his needs and wants

except Cheney got away with it. And Blago has a lot more hair.