Lawmakers question sale of student loans
In a heated hourlong hearing Thursday, state lawmakers questioned why the student loan agency's top official wants to sell a majority of the state's $3.4 billion loan portfolio. They also...
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Blagojevich allies help state sell off student loans
State officials are preparing quietly to sell the majority of the state's $3.4 billion in student loans to lending companies in a controversial deal involving longtime friends and contributors to...
Rezko sells lot next to Obama
A land sale recorded this month ended the neighborly relationship between U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and indicted political insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko, Obama's friend and former fundraiser. On Dec. 28,...
FBI mole had long history of fraud–but looked great
Andre P. Johnson cut a dapper figure as he tooled around the South Side with Ald. Arenda Troutman. An elder in his Baptist church, the slender 38-year-old ran a bevy...
Obama intern had ties to Rezko
Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko made a modest pitch to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama last year. Rezko recommended a 20-year-old student from Glenview for one of the coveted summer internships...
Loan plot allegations grow
When officials at a Kansas bank started digging into a bad mortgage loan they made in Chicago in 2004, their lawyers soon saw evidence of what they believed was a...
Loan plot allegations grow
When officials at a Kansas bank started digging into a bad mortgage loan they made in Chicago in 2004, their lawyers soon saw evidence of what they believed was a...
2 men are charged in home loan scheme
A member of the Gangster Disciples and a North Side mortgage broker ran a mortgage fraud scheme for at least two years that ripped off "unsophisticated" home buyers for hundreds...
Obama: I regret deals with Rezko
Sen. Barack Obama expressed remorse Saturday for a series of financial arrangements he made with an indicted political fundraiser to improve their adjoining South Side properties. Obama has described his...
Rezko is `wildly in debt,’ U.S. says
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's longtime friend and one-time top fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko is more than $50 million in debt, according to disclosures in court Friday. The hearing before a federal...