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security company
owned by now-jailed political fundraiser
Tony Rezko sought
help from Obama
and then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in an effort
to gain a lucrative
contract in Iraq,
according to a report published in 2007.
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Chapter
IV: For the Slumlord's Defense, Barack Obama, Esq.
From the Washington Examiner
From the Washington Examiner
Writing
in his 1995 autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Obama said he
became "a civil rights lawyer" because "to lend meaning to a
community's suffering and take part in its healing -- that required something
more."
There
was indeed "something more" to Obama's legal career, but it wasn't
civil rights litigation at the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill &
Galland, where he was employed for a decade.
"He
spent about half his time working with Bill Miceli and my former partner,
Allison Davis, and that team," senior partner Judson Miner told The
Washington Examiner. Most of the entries on Obama's client list for the firm
from that period were in real estate, construction and finance.
Miceli
and Davis were the partners in charge of the firm's housing and real estate
practices. Davis would later leave
