In the Rasmussen poll taken on February 3, 2010 the Democratic party nominee for the US Senate Alexi Giannoulias had support of 40% of Illinois voters. Giannoulias is currently 6% behind Republican Nominee Mark Kirk. Alexi Giannoulias was elected Illinois Treasurer at the age of 30 making him the youngest in the nation. Giannoulias was also a professional basketball player in Greece.
However, there is a side to Alexi Giannoulias that he really does not want the voters of Illinois to know about. During the primary campaign Giannoulias noted that the Republican front-runner Mark Kirk had accepted more than $320,000 in campaign contributions from insurers. It is interesting that Giannoulias was so interested in digging up stories involving campaign funds. Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients of the Broadway Bank have included Michael Giorango, who was a Florida real estate developer who's been convicted of running illegal bookmaking and was also convicted for operating prostitution rings. Other clients of Broadway Bank included Boris Stratievsky and his son Lev Stratievsky, who were eventually convicted of money laundering of drug money for the Ukrainian mafia. Yet another client of Broadway Bank was Tony Rezko, who was a developer who was later convicted of both fraud and money laundering for his part in the attempted selling of the US Illinois Senate seat during the administration of Governor Blagojevich.
In response to Giannoulias's relationships with this long list of questionable characters, Giannoulias tried to explain it away during an interview with Chicago Tonight. 'In a perfect world, we'd only lend money to the most morally upstanding citizens,' ... 'when you have over 10,000 customers, a $950 million bank, there are a handful of customers—not unlike other businesses—who have legal issues, legal issues which are completely unrelated to the conduct of the bank.' Alexi Giannoulias seems to believe it is ok to do business with gangsters as long as you really did not know how bad they are. Maybe next time Mr. Giannoulias will remember to ask.
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Just read Evelyn Pringle's online "Curtain Time" articles on Alexi, Barack and Rezko. All these people work for General Mediterranean, which is a front for the Syrian mafia.
The only question now is, does Patrick Fitzgerald also work for General Med? Is he the Manchurian prosecutor?
If not, where is the indictment of Obama for the kickbacks he took in connection with the 2003 Hospital Facilities Planning Board legislation which allowed Rezko to keep control of the board?
There is enough on the secret Levine tapes RIGHT NOW to send this scummy clown Obama to jail. Why hasn't this lunatic dog been indicted?
I could not vote for A Giannoulias knowing his pass with the banking business he and his family where involved in. Plus he is a Blago supporter. Giannoulias is a corrupt Chicago politician. We need change in IL and Giannoulias is not it. Giannoulias is the same as we have now...Chicago corrupt thug.
Giannoulias is wrong for Illinois! It is only a matter of time before his past catches up with him.
Alexi deserves to lose
Giannoulias couldn't lead a horse to water!
Even Blago is a better choice
Will the corruption in Illinois never end?
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