Rezko, Blago Pal Dodges Taxes

UPDATE to UPDATE: Kass on the Kelly house tour. And with a few questions for the Feds.

UPDATE: Went off to another Christmas concert and came back to this gift. Tribune:

Christopher Kelly, a close adviser to Gov. Rod Blagojevich and chief fundraiser on his two campaigns for governor, was indicted today on federal tax fraud charges, accused of understating more than $1.3 million in personal and business income on tax returns for five years, federal authorities said.

Of course the governor acts like this has nothing to do with him, it's only the personal troubles of "Individual B" in Operation Board Games, the Fed probe of the governor.

Sun Times:

Chaib gave $10,000 to Blagojevich's political fund in February 2002. He began falling delinquent in tax payments to the state that same year. His tollway deal came together in early 2004.

He now owes $193,227 in overdue unemployment taxes and $166,412 in sales taxes, according to state liens.

"The Blagojevich administration is either woefully blind to these issues, or they just don't care," said Jay Stewart, executive director of the Better Government Association, a government watchdog group. "Would you want someone on a board who's married to an individual who's been sanctioned by that body? I don't think you have to be a good-government expert to realize that's problematic."

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