Monday, October 11, 2010

Morning Joe on the Alexi Killer Stumble: The Jaws Giorango Debate

Too much to stomach even for the mostly PC media. Morning Joe joins Time's Joe Klein as incredulous. Video. Following from the Kirk campaign is Kirk's visual aid from the debate (who you gonna believe--Alexi Giannoulias or your lying eyes):
Rep. Kirk responds to Giannoulias' contention that he "didn't know the extent" of the criminal activity of his mobster loanees with a visual aid, recreated below, of all the felons to whom Giannoulias awarded loans as the senior loan officer of Broadway Bank -- and that one not need to pull rap sheets to find the extent of these figure's criminal records, but instead open the Chicago Tribune.

Broadway Bank Loans to Criminals

Total Broadway Bank Loans to Criminals: $119,499,045

Total Alexi Giannoulias Loans to Criminals: $80,037,045

Michael Giorango

Name Amount Date

Michael Giorango $1,100,000.00 8/27/1999

Michael Giorango $900,000.00 9/24/1999

Michael Giorango $300,000.00 12/5/2000

2601 Associates $5,000,000.00 5/31/2001

Michael Giorango $6,000,000.00 11/2/2001

Michael Giorango $600,000.00 5/28/2002

2601 Associates $400,000.00 9/19/2002

1201 S Western LLC $1,360,000.00 9/1/2004

1201 S Western LLC $4,400,000.00 12/21/2004

1201 S Western LLC $6,120,000.00 12/31/2004

Sun & Ocean Properties $5,800,000.00 3/31/2005

2601 Associates $1,000,000.00 4/20/2005

Highland Park Real Estate Dev. Corp $3,600,000.00 7/1/2005

1201 S Western LLC $3,400,000.00 9/26/2005

Broadway Bank Total: $39,980,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $26,080,000

Demitri Stavropoulos

Name Amount Date

2601 Associates $400,000.00 9/19/2002

1201 S Western LLC $1,360,000.00 9/1/2004

1201 S Western LLC $4,400,000.00 12/21/2004

1201 S Western LLC $6,120,000.00 12/31/2004

Sun & Ocean Properties $5,800,000.00 3/31/2005

2601 Associates $1,000,000.00 4/20/2005

Highland Park Real Estate Dev. Corp $3,600,000.00 7/1/2005

1201 S Western LLC $3,400,000.00 9/26/2005

Broadway Bank Total: $26,080,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $26,080,000

Boris Stratievsky

Name Amount Date

Arbor Fullerton Corp $1,900,000 4/1/2002

2400 South LLC $6,120,000 1/15/2003

Arbor III Inc $6,000,000 9/30/2004

Arbor III Inc $6,117,045 1/28/2005

Arbor ACQ Inc $5,000,000 2/18/2005

Broadway Bank Total: $25,137,045

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $23,237,045

Ugur Yildiz

Name Amount Date

Ugur Yildiz $710,000 7/24/2001

Ugur Yildiz $800,000 11/2/2001

Ugur Yildiz $92,000 1/24/2002

Ugur Yildiz $600,000 6/4/2004

Ugur Yildiz $900,000 7/3/2004

DCG Holdings $1,360,000 6/30/2009


Broadway Bank Total: $3,102,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $1,500,000

Tony Rezko

Name Amount Date

Chicago-Hudson LLC $10,940,000 1/25/2002

Tony Rezko $1,000,000 9/2002

Riverside District Development LLC $22,750,000 2/14/2006


Broadway Bank Total: $34,690,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $23,750,000


Nadhmi Auchi

Name Amount Date

Riverside District Development LLC $22,750,000 2/14/2006

Broadway Bank Total: $22,750,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $22,750,000

Nick Giannis

Name Amount Date

Nick Giannis $200,000.00 8/15/2000

Nick Giannis $4,000,000.00 8/9/2001

Nick Giannis $200,000.00 10/25/2001

Nick Giannis $350,000.00 2/27/2002

Nick Giannis $1,220,000.00 11/26/2002

Boston Blackies Prop I LLC $4,250,000.00 2/24/2005

Boston Blackies Prop I LLC $1,400,000.00 1/22/2007

Boston Blackies Prop I LLC $500,000.00 4/9/2007

Boston Blackies Prop I LLC $2,100,000.00 6/8/2007

Boston Blackies Prop IV LLC $2,370,000.00 5/23/2008

Broadway Bank Total: $16,590,000

Alexi Giannoulias Total: $5,470,000

Some background on Jaws Giorango, published in 2004 in the Chicago Tribune:

Four elected officials may move out of a North Side office building after learning about their landlord's criminal background.

Michael Giorango has been convicted twice of federal bookmaking charges and was found guilty in January of promoting a prostitution operation, according to a Justice Department press release and court records. [snip]

In 1989, Giorango pleaded guilty to helping direct a south suburban bookmaking ring that used threats of bombings, beatings and robbery to collect unpaid debts. Nicknamed "Jaws," Giorango managed bookie parlors that moved periodically, as well as monthly floating "smokers," or casino gambling nights.

In 1991, while Giorango was in federal prison for the bookmaking case, he was convicted of additional gambling and tax violations stemming from his role in a separate bookmaking operation overseen by Chicago Heights gambling boss Dominic Barbaro. At Barbaro's several wire rooms, Giorango accepted wagers totaling more than $40,000 a week and settled up with customers, prosecutors said.

An April 2006 post of mine--after the primary for state Treasurer. Those questions still haven't been answered. And Alexi's story keeps shifting. Or something.

Another post after this year's primary for the Senate: Loans to Mobsters Business as Usual for Giannoulias Bank

...What did you and Jaws do in Miami Alexi?

...Oh and early voting starts today in Illinois.

Previous posts: Was Alexi a little bit pregnant?, Kirk, Alexi on MTP

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