Michelle's Friend Kelly

In the news, Michelle Obama's friend Kelly King Dibble. Tribune today:

The way Ali Ata described it, the waiting room in the North Side office of Antoin "Tony" Rezko seemed as busy as an airport terminal. And it was there that Ata, installed by Rezko at the helm of a state loan agency, allegedly learned the risks of crossing his patron.

Testifying against Rezko at his corruption trial Thursday, Ata said he regularly dropped by to get marching orders and often bumped into other top officials waiting for the powerful Blagojevich administration insider.

Ata said one semi-regular at the office was Kelly King Dibble, a former Rezko employee tapped to head a state housing agency. Once, Ata said, Dibble emerged from a session with Rezko looking disturbed. Dibble, Ata said he was later told, had resisted hiring a Rezko relative. So Rezko, Ata said, passed a message to Dibble "congratulating her on her new assignment," making it clear that the new assignment would be unemployment.

More background, Tribune story Jan. 31,2008:

For example, it included money given to Obama over several years by Kelly King Dibble, a onetime Rezko employee whom he helped place at the helm of a state housing development agency. But before Dibble worked for Rezko she struck up a friendship with Obama's wife, Michelle, when they worked at the Chicago Planning Department.

Dibble could not be reached for comment Wednesday, and it was not clear whether donations from her were among those shed. Burton declined to release names of donors whose gifts the campaign considered tainted by Rezko.

More here. Have a nice weekend Obamanoids.