By Lee Cary -- Marty Watters —— Bio and Archives April 27, 2018
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"Bernard Barton's transition to John Thomas began in the late 1990s when investigators in the USA's [U.S. Attorney's] Long Island office in the Eastern District of New York caught Barton and a partner defrauding customers of their billboard leasing company by charging them $350,000 in rental fees for billboard space."Guess who was heading up the Long Island office that transferred Barton's case to Chicago?
"Thomas wouldn't [after Rezko's story broke] discuss details of his work for the FBI. But sources said that, for more than two years when he was giving information to agents, Thomas provided a fly-on-the-wall look inside Rezko's real estate operations and his desperate attempts to keep his projects afloat. Sources said Thomas also logged frequent visits to Rezko from Gov. Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). [bolded in the original] Blagojevich and Obama were among the many politicians for whom Rezko raised campaign cash. Neither has been charged with any wrongdoing. Thomas had good reason to help. He hopes to get probation for his own felony fraud conviction in a New York case. And he said he wants to redeem himself in the eyes of business associates and his family. Sources said Thomas helped investigators build a record of repeat visits to the old offices of Rezko and former business partner Daniel Mahru's Rezmar Corp., at 853 N. Elston, by Blagojevich and Obama during 2004 and 2005."So, there were three F.B.I. moles in Tony Rezko's office wearing wires, recording conversations with, or concerning, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and/or Illinois State Senator Barack H. Obama. There was never any court testimony or public disclosure of any part of any conversation, between Rezko, Blago or Obama, coming from a Barton-Thomas wire, or from the conversations recorded by Frawley or Mahru. Not--a--mumbling word. As Fitzgerald continued to pursue and eventually capture Tony, he also cornered Blago. Blago's arrest was coming, but it came early. Fitzgerald had to interrupt Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s (J.J. Jr. was Co-Chair of Obama's Presidential Election Committee) attempt to pay Blago in exchange for being appointed to Obama's U.S. Senate seat coming open after his Inauguration. J.J. Jr. eventually went to jail, but not for trying to buy a Senate seat. As chronicled here, someone--from the U.S. Attorney's Office?--leaked the news to Chicago Tribune reporter John Chase that Blago's phone was bugged by the feds. Chase then, dutifully, called a Blago associate with the information.
"Columbia University Professor Daniel Richman, another close friend of Comey's who is serving as one of his attorneys and with whom Comey shared some of his memos about his meetings with President Trump to leak to the press, didn't respond to multiple requests for comment for the story."Fitzgerald works today at the "white-shoe" law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. "Fitz" might have had a bigger role in the alleged F.B.I. investigation of Hillary's emails had two now-infamous F.B.I. officials had their way:
"Senior FBI officials involved in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server considered naming former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as a special prosecutor for that probe, according to text messages released Thursday. The proposal for a special counsel appears to have arisen in March 2016, relatively early in the FBI's inquiry into Clinton's email use, based on a limited set of texts exchanged by senior FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page that were made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley."So instead of a starring role in the Band, Fitz is a stagehand in the Comey defense. If he knows anything about the F.B.I.'s handling of Hillary's emails, or about any classified information that Comey may have leaked to the media through Richman, Attorney-Client privilege prohibits him from revealing that information. Comey is like the man who committed bigamy and claimed that his wives couldn't testify against him. Marty Watters is an investigative reporter for the Chicago-based website IllinoisPaytoPlay.
Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam, and lives in Texas.