Let's see now - a multi-million dollar loan from a corrupt foreign national. Check. Handled by a murky fundraiser currently under invsetigation. Check. Resulting in a sweet real estate deal for a Democrat presidential contender. Check.
Hillary? Not this time - it's Barak Obama, who is in a bit of, um, Whitewater over this questionable scheme to allegedly finance some property:
"A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.
The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.
A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Antoin "Tony" Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.
Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city's South Side while Mr Rezko's wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15."
UPDATE: As of 12:45pm CST, dead silence in reporting this story by the American Mainstream Media. ABC News. Check. NBC/MSNBC News. Check. CBS News. Check. The New York Times. Check. Not like this should surprise anyone.
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