Barack Obama and Al Capone
“Read the papers here, and you might think little has changed from the days when Chicago politicians got money from Al Capone.”
So writes Amanda Paulson in The Christian Science Monitor on February 4, 2005. (http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0204/p02s01-ussc.html)
Unfortunately for the citizens of Chicago, Paulson was all too correct, and one of the worst offenders, the man who paints himself as an agent of “hope and change,” as non-partisan – indeed as a great reformer – the man who would be president – was none other than Barack Obama.
The story Paulson was writing about was known as the “Hired Truck” scandal and it’s a bit hard to follow if you aren’t familiar with the city’s politics – or have an accounting degree.
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