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   > OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL   
   > Rezko attorney 'owns' Obama mansion   
   > Lawyer at firm where Democrat worked receives tax bill   
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   > Posted: December 25, 2008   
   > 11:40 pm Eastern   
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   > By Jerome R. Corsi   
   > © 2009 WorldNetDaily   
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   >       William Miceli   
   > An attorney for convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko is listed as the owner and   
   > taxpayer for Barack Obama's Chicago mansion, according to records obtained   
   > by WND.   
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   > William Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill &   
   > Galland, which also formerly employed Obama.   
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   > The controversy began when a website called News and Commentary for Thinking   
   > People published a 48-page document that lists Miceli as the owner of the   
   > Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood.   
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   > Miner, Barnhill & Galland was Obama's employer when he did extensive legal   
   > work for Rezko, who awaits sentencing after he was convicted in June of   
   > fraud, money laundering and bribery-related counts.   
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   > Miceli, as a senior attorney at the firm, supervised Obama when the future   
   > president wrote letters on behalf of Rezko urging public authorities to   
   > award him new public properties to rehabilitate, notes the "Barack Book"   
   > website maintained by GOP.com.   
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   > WND asked for comment from Obama's transition team and the Democratic   
   > National Committee but did not receive a response.   
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   > Investigative reporter Tim Novak at the Chicago Sun-Times has identified 15   
   > building projects that Rezmar, Rezko's development company, redeveloped   
   > while it was represented by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland during Obama's   
   > time at the firm.   
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   > The law firm changed its name when senior partner Allison Davis left to join   
   > Rezko in his schemes to take out loans on low-income housing projects.   
   > Several of the transactions remain under investigation, because the millions   
   > of dollars Rezko borrowed against the properties to make redevelopments are   
   > gone, while many of the properties remain boarded up and uninhabitable.   
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   > Following the Jan. 21 Democratic Party primary debate, Miceli told the   
   > Washington Post that he was Obama's supervisor at the law firm, in response   
   > to Sen. Hillary Clinton's charges Obama had worked for a Chicago slumlord,   
   > Rezko.   
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   > The Post said "Obama denied doing any legal work directly for Rezko or his   
   > companies," contending Obama had done only "about five hours worth of work"   
   > on a joint real estate development project involving Rezko and a Chicago   
   > church group.   
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   > Miceli told the Post Obama "was a very junior lawyer at the time, who was   
   > given responsibility for basic due diligence, document review."   
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   > Miceli said Obama "did what he was told by the firm," minimizing the   
   > importance of any work Obama admittedly did for the Rezko account.   
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   > WND confirmed the tax bill for the Obama home is mailed to Miceli, not to   
   > Obama or the Northern Trust account through which Obama has claimed the home   
   > was purchased.   
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   > Records from the Cook County Treasurer's Office give the PIN number for the   
   > Obama property as 20-11-115-037-0000 and list Miceli as the person who   
   > receives Obama's property tax invoice by mail.   
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   > Eric Herman, a spokesman for the Cook County assessor, confirmed to WND that   
   > the Treasurer's Office records were correct and that Miceli did receive the   
   > Obama property tax invoice by mail.   
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   > Miceli did not return a call WND placed to him at Miner, Barnhill & Galland.   
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   > Herman told WND a second PIN number, 20-11-115-036-0000, identified the   
   > vacant lot next to the Obama mansion that was purchased by Rita Rezko, Tony   
   > Rezko's wife.   
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   > Here, WND found conflicts between the tax records maintained by the Cook   
   > County Treasurer's Office and the deed information maintained by the Cook   
   > County Recorder of Deeds.   
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   > Rosslyn Whitlock, an Internet support specialist at the Cook County Recorder   
   > of Deeds, confirmed to WND that the office has no information listed for the   
   > Obama home under the PIN number 20-11-115-037-0000, the number used by the   
   > Cook County Assessor's office for property tax purposes.   
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   > Records at the Cook County Recorder of Deeds list Rita Rezko as the holder   
   > of the warranty deed for the vacant lot at 5050 S. Greenwood adjoining the   
   > Obama mansion, under the PIN number 20-11-115-036-0000.   
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   > WND was able to locate warranty information at the Cook County Recorder of   
   > Deeds , which Herman at the County Assessor's office told WND was the "old   
   > PIN number" assigned to the Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood Avenue, before   
   > the home was sold to Obama.   
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   > Neither spokesman could explain to WND the discrepancy in PIN numbers, nor   
   > why the Cook County Recorder of Deeds has no information filed under the new   
   > PIN number assigned to the property after the Obama purchase.   
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   > Records with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds under the PIN number   
   > 20-11-115-034-0000 indicate the mortgage is held by Northern Trust Company   
   > under trust number 10209, which Obama has indicated was the trust the Obama   
   > family used to purchase the home.   
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   > Meanwhile, WND has reported that since arresting Illinois Gov. Rod   
   > Blagojevich, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has taken new interest in   
   > Rezko's involvement in the Obama mansion purchase.   
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   > WND also reported real estate credit analyst Kenneth Conner has filed a   
   > civil suit alleging he was wrongfully dismissed by Mutual Bank of Harvey for   
   > objecting to what he considered a fraudulent appraisal of the vacant lot.   
   > The appraisal was submitted by the Rezkos at an intentionally high figure,   
   > he claims, permitting them to borrow an additional $125,000 that amounted to   
   > a "political payoff" to Obama.   
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   > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84101   
      
      
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