Archives
- 2011.10.03: Rezko sentencing date moved again. Prosecutors cite Cellini trial.
- 2010.11.08: Congressman Gutierrez questioned about Rezko deal
- 2010.06.02: TONY REZKO: Unlikely witness in Blagojevich trial
- 2009.12.07: EX-GOV ROD BLAGOJEVICH TO BE RE-INDICTED
- 2009.03.09: Buddy of key witness to plead guilty
- 2009.02.10: New Blog
- 2009.02.03: Prosecutors help move Rezko out of MCC
- 2008.12.17: Rezko sentencing off again
- 2008.12.02: Rezko to be sentenced in 5 1/2 weeks
- 2008.11.26: Rezko having second thoughts on cooperation?
- 2008.11.12: Rezko loses bid for new trial
- 2008.10.08: Judge agrees to move Rezko sentencing
- 2008.10.07: Governor not worried about Rezko
- 2008.10.07: Feds checking out Rezko's story
- 2008.10.06: Feds ask to strike Rezko's October sentencing
- 2008.10.04: Feds look into Rezko's ties to Blago rehab
- 2008.10.01: Judge freezes Rezko money
- 2008.09.29: Rezko: Prosecutors hush on talks
- 2008.09.27: Rezko's "intense" discussions with feds
- 2008.09.20: Rezko's lawyers want verdict thrown out
- 2008.08.28: Is Tony Rezko cooperating?
- 2008.08.20: Obama friend Rezko to be sentenced one week before election
- 2008.07.14: Rezko friend's trial postponed
- 2008.07.01: Rezko: Here are Blago and Obama documents
- 2008.06.26: Obama's Rezko ties kept under seal
- 2008.06.26: Rezko: Which version of the truth to believe?
- 2008.06.12: Rezko: Judge releases hold on 27 properties;keeps some Rezko money
- 2008.06.12: Rezko money: Feds want to put a hold on funds
- 2008.06.12: Rezko to judge: 'I did nothing wrong with Obama or Blagojevich'
- 2008.06.09: Rezko: One trial down. Next up in 2009.
- 2008.06.08: Rezko: Will he sing?
- 2008.06.05: Obama: No pardon for Rezko
- 2008.06.05: Tony Rezko: Money troubles don't end
- 2008.06.05: Rezko trial: The day after
- 2008.06.04: Rezko trial: Blagojevich reacts
- 2008.06.04: Juror statement
- 2008.06.04: Rezko trial: Obama's reaction
- 2008.06.04: Rezko trial: Verdict breakdown
- 2008.06.04: Rezko guilty on 16 of 24 counts
- 2008.06.04: VERDICT
- 2008.06.04: Rezko trial: What we know
- 2008.06.03: Jury's gone
- 2008.06.03: "We cannot decide on one count."
- 2008.06.03: The verdict form
- 2008.06.03: Jurors lunching
- 2008.06.03: Rezko trial: Are we there yet?
- 2008.06.02: They're gone for the day
- 2008.06.02: Can a tie be a sign?
- 2008.06.02: Rezko trial: Jury nears verdict; deadlocked on one count
- 2008.06.02: Jury note
- 2008.06.02: Rezko trial: Will today be the day?
- 2008.05.30: Rezko's gambling previously unknown
- 2008.05.29: They're gone! Back Monday
- 2008.05.29: Anticipation is killing us
- 2008.05.29: Rezko trial: Marshals told to bring Rezko to Vegas
- 2008.05.29: Feds made aware of new Rezko warrant
- 2008.05.29: Rezko facing new arrest?
- 2008.05.28: Jury done for the day
- 2008.05.28: Judge won't release blank verdict form -- yet
- 2008.05.28: Verdict form -- covered in spilled coffee
- 2008.05.28: Another jury note
- 2008.05.27: Free defense for the next indicted gov?
- 2008.05.27: Rezko trial: Jury's schedule
- 2008.05.27: Jurors want to "conclude their decision" -- by Thursday
- 2008.05.27: Jury Note
- 2008.05.22: Jury gone until Tuesday
- 2008.05.22: Yes, jury is back
- 2008.05.20: Jury adjourned for the day
- 2008.05.20: Jury leaving early today
- 2008.05.19: Jury's gone
- 2008.05.19: A different take on Stuart Levine
- 2008.05.19: The Piggy Bank
- 2008.05.16: Jury done for the day
- 2008.05.16: Blago memo: Turn over Rezko evidence
- 2008.05.16: The law the jury must follow
- 2008.05.16: Rezko trial: Jurors have case, day two
- 2008.05.15: Jury done for the day
- 2008.05.15: Rezko trial: First jury question
- 2008.05.15: Rezko trial: Finally, the real indictment
- 2008.05.15: Rezko trial: Jury's deliberating
- 2008.05.15: Rezko calling
- 2008.05.14: Rezko trial: Feds hit back
- 2008.05.13: Female-dominated, racially diverse jury
- 2008.05.13: Four juror alternates dismissed -- including sleeper
- 2008.05.13: Rezko trial: Jury's gone, returns Thursday
- 2008.05.13: Prosecution fires back
- 2008.05.13: Duffy's Done
- 2008.05.13: More Joe Duffy one-liners
- 2008.05.13: Rezko trial: Tony on tape
- 2008.05.12: Levine's $1.3 million in cash and 806 calls
- 2008.05.12: Rezko trial: Enough to wake a sleeping juror
- 2008.05.12: Rezko trial: Another Obama mention
- 2008.05.12: Duffy: Live or Memorex, it doesn't matter
- 2008.05.12: Reid Schar's list
- 2008.05.12: Sleeping juror
- 2008.05.12: For the prosecution: Reid Schar
- 2008.05.12: To close or not to close?
- 2008.05.12: Downplaying Levine
- 2008.05.12: Government kicks off closing arguments in Rezko trial
- 2008.05.12: Rezko trial: Tension building
- 2008.05.12: Rezko trial: A Rezko review
- 2008.05.08: Fat tax break for felon
- 2008.05.07: Rezko trial: Jail time in question for those who cooperated
- 2008.05.06: Rezko trial: Obama escapes unscathed
- 2008.05.06: Rezko trial: Defense calls prosecution's case weak
- 2008.05.05: Defense: Prosecution didn't prove case
- 2008.05.05: Rezko trial: Last moments are light and loose
- 2008.05.05: Rezko trial: Defense won't call witnesses
- 2008.05.05: Rezko trial: Prosecution rests
- 2008.05.05: Witness: I wore a wire after I was threatened
- 2008.05.05: Rezko trial: What you need to know as prosecution wraps up
- 2008.05.03: Rezko trial: Man on the run
- 2008.05.02: Trial could wrap up earlier than planned
- 2008.05.02: Defense: Was Rezko really that powerful?
- 2008.05.02: Key witness: 'I had to prove myself' after Sept. 11
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: 'He was being watched'
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: Rezko owes me $2 million
- 2008.05.01: Witness: Rezko shook me down for cash
- 2008.05.01: Mr. Ata justta wrote me a letter
- 2008.05.01: Witness: Governor told me he hoped I made money
- 2008.05.01: Recall amendement killed in Senate
- 2008.05.01: Defense wants to bar "bags of cash" evidence
- 2008.05.01: Visit from feds drove Ata to state job
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: Ata takes the stand
- 2008.05.01: Witness: Rezko's checks bounced
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: The bungled recording
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: Why Cellini wasn't recorded
- 2008.05.01: Rezko trial: Back today
- 2008.04.30: Rezko trial: U.S. seeks to limit questioning
- 2008.04.29: Governor's response to home lien accusation
- 2008.04.29: Blago hired Rezko firm for home renovation
- 2008.04.29: Witness: Rezko wanted cash bribe for Blago home
- 2008.04.29: Witness: Rezko needed cash to fix gov's home
- 2008.04.28: Rezko trial: Finish line in sight
- 2008.04.28: Rezko trial: Who's on the phone with Tony?
- 2008.04.28: This break brought to you by ... Ali Ata
- 2008.04.28: Witness: 'Patrick Fitzgerald would be terminated'
- 2008.04.28: Rezko trial: Obama's name kept hush
- 2008.04.27: Ex-inmate helps free Rezko from jail
- 2008.04.25: Aiham Alsammarae and Tony Rezko
- 2008.04.25: Producer describes shakedown scheme
- 2008.04.24: The Human Stain -- an Allison Davis sidenote
- 2008.04.24: Give me a million dollars, baby
- 2008.04.24: Rezko trial: Predictions
- 2008.04.24: A Hollywood producer, star witness & Ed Vrdolyak in a room
- 2008.04.24: Rezko trial: The Ugly Truth
- 2008.04.24: Rezko trial: Hollywood producer up next
- 2008.04.24: Rezko trial: Associate talks of fee splitting
- 2008.04.24: Rezko trial: Ata could be up next week
- 2008.04.24: Rove, Kjellander deny Fitzgerald plot
- 2008.04.23: Rezko trial: Kjellander tried to oust Fitzgerald
- 2008.04.23: PROSECUTORS: REZKO SCHEMED TO OUST FITZGERALD
- 2008.04.22: Governor's response
- 2008.04.22: Rezko trial: Ata to be called as witness
- 2008.04.22: Blagojevich back in the hot seat
- 2008.04.22: Former official in Blagojevich administration pleads guilty
- 2008.04.22: Rezko trial: $50 million more -- just like that
- 2008.04.22: Rezko trial: Witness chokes up on stand
- 2008.04.22: Rezko trial: Late start today
- 2008.04.21: Rezko trial: Loren chokes up on stand
- 2008.04.21: Rezko trial:Backing up Levine
- 2008.04.21: Rezko trial: Broken ankle bonds Loren and Levine
- 2008.04.21: Rezko trial: Wine and chuckles
- 2008.04.21: Rezko trial: "I don't pay money to get money."
- 2008.04.21: Monday, Monday
- 2008.04.19: Tony's back at home
- 2008.04.18: Mr. Rezko has left the building
- 2008.04.18: Rezko freed on bond
- 2008.04.18: Looks like Tony will be freed on bond
- 2008.04.18: Will judge release Rezko on bond?
- 2008.04.18: Rezko trial: More on investments
- 2008.04.18: Rezko recap
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: 'He's taken millions from his closest friends'
- 2008.04.17: Friends step up to try to free Rezko
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: Finder's fees is the game
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: Another new witness
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: Hannon the adventurer
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: Rezko asks to get out of jail
- 2008.04.17: Non-Rezko trial over
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: Rezko swept for bugs
- 2008.04.17: Rezko trial: New witness
- 2008.04.16: 70-degree day shines on St. Eve
- 2008.04.16: Rezko trial: 'This is how the governor handles patronage'
- 2008.04.16: Joe Cari leaves the stand
- 2008.04.16: And he's ever-present everywhere
- 2008.04.16: Rezko trial: Blago once had higher hopes
- 2008.04.15: Breast cancer conversation
- 2008.04.15: Hug-a-Stu
- 2008.04.15: Blagojevich: 'I'm in good company'
- 2008.04.15: Cari and his conversation with the gov
- 2008.04.15: Cari depressed but says mind is clear
- 2008.04.15: Joseph Cari takes the stand
- 2008.04.15: Levine mum as he left court today
- 2008.04.15: Stuart Levine finishes testifying
- 2008.04.15: Levine might leave witness stand today
- 2008.04.15: Today's story
- 2008.04.14: Obama on Auchi in his own words
- 2008.04.14: Rezko trial: Who didn't bring up Obama
- 2008.04.14: A meeting and a fiery exchange
- 2008.04.14: Rezko trial: Who has the bad memory now?
- 2008.04.14: Obama bomb dropped
- 2008.04.14: Does political fundraising equal corruption?
- 2008.04.14: Can prosecutors pick up the pieces?
- 2008.04.13: Iraqi connection
- 2008.04.11: Rezko trial: Radio talk
- 2008.04.10: Swissôtel refuses to sink to Purple Hotel status --bans Stu Levine
- 2008.04.10: With jury away, the defense will play
- 2008.04.10: Duffy to Levine: 'Do you have telepathic powers?'
- 2008.04.10: Judge to Levine: Answer the questions. Nothing more.
- 2008.04.10: We've reached the point of ridiculousness
- 2008.04.10: Rezko trial: Late start
- 2008.04.09: A facade of politeness
- 2008.04.09: Rezko trial: What's 5% of $20 million?
- 2008.04.09: Rezko trial: Did Rezko really say "You bet?" You bet.
- 2008.04.09: No trial for sleeping men
- 2008.04.09: Rezko trial: Revisiting the Standard Club
- 2008.04.09: Rezko trial: Democratic strategist is morning focus
- 2008.04.09: Rezko trial: How Levine gave back
- 2008.04.08: Levine: I was drunk with power
- 2008.04.08: Levine: Would you repeat that question?
- 2008.04.08: "YESSIR"-God bless you
- 2008.04.08: Down to 16 jurors
- 2008.04.08: Had enough of Levine yet?
- 2008.04.08: Rezko trial: Levine's memory clears up
- 2008.04.08: Rezko trial: Defense questions Levine's cash spending
- 2008.04.08: Rezko trial: Levine talks about day in November
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: Levine's mistaken memory
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: How to spend $40,000 in cash a month
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: Levine 'enraged' at drug use allegations
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: Levine 'amazed' by snorting sounds
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: Armani suit coat bungles covert operation
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: 10/27/06
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: Levine can't remember year he pleaded guilty
- 2008.04.07: Rezko trial: happy Monday morning
- 2008.04.05: Rezko trial: Levine tried to ensnare former Alderman
- 2008.04.04: Rezko trial: The wire that never was?
- 2008.04.04: Done for the day -- weary reporters are happy
- 2008.04.04: A little Xanax and a session with the feds
- 2008.04.04: Rezko trial: Levine's most significant moment
- 2008.04.04: Defense on the attack
- 2008.04.04: Charges at the Purple Hotel
- 2008.04.03: Rezko trial: Lying Levine
- 2008.04.03: Levine: Faced threat of dying in prison
- 2008.04.03: Levine gave to his favorite charity --himself
- 2008.04.03: Rezko defense: Levine made his secretary cry
- 2008.04.03: Stealing from a dead man's children
- 2008.04.03: Suit jacket off
- 2008.04.03: Rezko trial: Defense tricks work on witness
- 2008.04.03: Levine: A bagman is a homeless person?
- 2008.04.03: Rezko trial: Attack on chief witness begins
- 2008.04.03: Explosive cross examination begins
- 2008.04.03: Levine: 'The Big Guy knew'
- 2008.04.03: Rezko trial: Levine still on direct
- 2008.04.02: A name we haven't heard at Rezko trial
- 2008.04.02: LEVINE DROPS ANOTHER ANOTHER BLAGO BOMBSHELL
- 2008.04.02: 'Secret tape reveals extortion attempt'
- 2008.04.02: Rezko to coschemers: Disarm dangerous situation
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: Chris Kelly had a phone in each hand
- 2008.04.02: Levine cross could happen
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: A Pope and a Rabbi
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: 'I'll Take Them Down'
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: Cellini on the line
- 2008.04.02: 'No Way Around Clout'
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: Levine shows some ugly colors
- 2008.04.02: Rezko trial: Levine Day 7
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: Vrdolyak comes up again
- 2008.04.01: Levine: Rezko could 'knock me out'
- 2008.04.01: Levine: "I'm drooling."
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: Obama's former boss comes up
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: Scheme with a Hollywood Producer
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: Levine on the line
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: $3.9 million? 'Tony's fine with all of it'
- 2008.04.01: Rezko trial: Levine back on the stand
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: Money divvied up at Standard Club
- 2008.03.31: Levine: I'm going to the Cubs opener today
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: Defense complains of repeat calls
- 2008.03.31: Levine: Mell wanted to make money
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: Crystal Meth and Special K
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: Defense wants to call Levine's wife to stand
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: Ethics 'just for show'
- 2008.03.31: Enough to make a juror chuckle
- 2008.03.31: Blago to Kelly: 'You're a roofer, I'm an ex-Congressman'
- 2008.03.31: Levine: Pay-to-play was the game
- 2008.03.31: Rezko trial: After a week break, trial is back on
- 2008.03.30: Rezko trial: Cellini says of fund-raising tactics: "I'm a nervous wreck..."
- 2008.03.28: Blagojevich on Levine: "Let me answer that question ... with an answer."
- 2008.03.26: 2nd Blago fundraiser to go to trial
- 2008.03.26: Week break good for incarcerated Rezko
- 2008.03.25: Sharks are circling
- 2008.03.25: Off this week
- 2008.03.23: Another legal headache for Rezko
- 2008.03.22: Rezko trial: Listen to Tony Rezko
- 2008.03.22: More on Obama-Rezko
- 2008.03.22: Rezko trial: Tony Rezko's voice heard for first time
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Juror dismissed because of illness
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Star witness tells of deal with Kjellander and Cellini
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Tony Rezko's voice heard for first time
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Oh yeah, I wrote a check for $3 million
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: From millionaire to bankrupt?
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Neither rain nor sleet nor snow...
- 2008.03.21: Rezko trial: Promise of money got Rezko's attention
- 2008.03.20: Listen to Rezko witness on tape
- 2008.03.20: Victor Reyes comes up in Rezko trial
- 2008.03.20: Senior citizen kicked out of Rezko trial
- 2008.03.20: Witness: Rezko's power unprecedented
- 2008.03.20: Rezko trial: 'Spartacus' revealed
- 2008.03.20: The Governor's deal with Levine
- 2008.03.20: Rezko witness: 'I'll bring the governor."
- 2008.03.20: Star witness at Rezko trial tells co-schemer: 'We'll be protected.'
- 2008.03.20: Rezko trial: One juror gone
- 2008.03.20: Rezko trial: Back in this morning
- 2008.03.19: Second Blago fundraiser dragged into Rezko trial
- 2008.03.19: Rezko trial witness in a 'very difficult situation'
- 2008.03.19: 'Blagojevich drawn into Rezko trial'
- 2008.03.19: Rezko trial: Trial ends early today
- 2008.03.19: Rezko trial: President Blagojevich?
- 2008.03.19: Rezko trial: Blagojevich told businessman he would make money
- 2008.03.19: 'Welcome to the Vrdolyak trial'
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Schools contract
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Putting it in perspective
- 2008.03.18: A Vrdolyak primer
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Star witness didn't waste time
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: star witness drops bombshells
- 2008.03.18: Levine: I paid bribes to Vrdolyak
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Fitzgerald sighting
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Slowing down
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Star witness could be up this afternoon
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Man of means interested in money, never talked to Rezko
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: Investor told to "Back off'
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: 'Witness ties Ald. Mell to scheme'
- 2008.03.18: Rezko trial: businessman to face questions
- 2008.03.17: Dick Mell confronts Fitzgerald
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Monday recordings
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Jurors asked about media coverage
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Dick Mell responds
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Seeing green
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: witness breaks early
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Ald. Dick Mell surfaces
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Talk will turn to kickbacks
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: 'Don't change your vote'
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Ed Kelly on the brain
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: Meeting with Tony unremarkable
- 2008.03.17: Rezko trial: star witness could soon take stand
- 2008.03.16: Tony Rezko in Obama's own words
- 2008.03.15: Rezko trial: Are jurors listening to Obama?
- 2008.03.15: Obama's remarks good for Rezko
- 2008.03.14: Rezko Trial: Cash for Obama
- 2008.03.14: Monday
- 2008.03.13: Rezko Trial: Irony of all ironies
- 2008.03.13: Getting his story straight
- 2008.03.13: Rezko's recommendations
- 2008.03.13: Onetime Metra chairman takes the stand
- 2008.03.13: Rezko trial: Doc on the run
- 2008.03.13: The money's flowing
- 2008.03.13: 'That's how Tony would want it'
- 2008.03.13: 'My mother's sister's husband's sister's son'
- 2008.03.13: Back in this morning
- 2008.03.12: Other phone calls
- 2008.03.12: Here's one of the phone calls
- 2008.03.12: 'Take this job and shove it'
- 2008.03.12: Democrats like hospitals
- 2008.03.12: Tony called the shots
- 2008.03.12: Caught on Tape
- 2008.03.12: Witness gets immunity
- 2008.03.12: More Murphy
- 2008.03.11: Rezko's office
- 2008.03.11: A scandalous trend?
- 2008.03.11: A 'collective gasp'
- 2008.03.11: Frankly speaking
- 2008.03.11: Change of subject
- 2008.03.11: We could hear tapes today
- 2008.03.10: 'What is your opinion...of Gov. Blagojevich?'
- 2008.03.10: Here's the memo
- 2008.03.10: Obama comes up again
- 2008.03.10: Blago's chief counsel back on the stand
- 2008.03.07: Who's giving Blago the big bucks
- 2008.03.07: No trial today
- 2008.03.06: Dirtying up Levine
- 2008.03.06: Rezko raised $1.4 million for governor
- 2008.03.06: Obama surfaces in Rezko trial
- 2008.03.06: For the Defense
- 2008.03.06: Openings begin
- 2008.03.05: The people going to battle
- 2008.03.05: Did Rezko pay bribe for an Iraqi deal?
- 2008.03.05: We have a jury
- 2008.03.04: Down to 44
- 2008.03.04: Only in Chicago
- 2008.03.04: What happened to Obama girl?
- 2008.03.04: Jury selection day two
- 2008.03.03: Who's Taking the Stand
- 2008.03.03: Obama watcher shows up at Rezko trial
- 2008.03.03: Rumor: Obama to be called as witness
- 2008.03.03: Rezko witness list includes Hollywood producer
- 2008.03.03: Jury selection begins today
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Natasha Korecki
Natasha Korecki is the Federal Courts Reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, covering federal news, corruption investigations and trials.
