What Was This Woman Doing In The Blago Jury Pool?
Was the Blago trial fixed? Well, being Chicago, who would be surprised? Some websites and Free Republic are reporting that the one holdout on the jury that sat in judgement of Blagojevich, and refused to find him guilty in the face of persistent persuasion from the other 11 jurors, has connections to Chicago “community groups”, Blagojevich himself, Barack Obama, and the Chicago Democrat Party.
FOX Chicago News also reported that speculation is centering on juror Jo Ann Chiakulas of Willowbrook, after a second-hand acquaintance said that she has been saying for weeks that she would find Blagojevich not guilty.
The official Justice Dept handout on the jurors has this to say about Chiakulas-
“Juror # 106, a black female believed to be in her 60s, is a retired state public health director who has ties to the Chicago Urban League. She has handed out campaign literature for a relative who ran for public office. She listens to National Public Radio and liberal talk radio shows.”
Freepers are claiming they have evidence that her late husband was a campaigner and donation ‘bundler’ for Blago, and that he also served on the Chicago Federation of Musicians board with Blago. The husband died in a car accident last year.
Dr. John Lumpkin was the holdout juror’s former boss. Lumpkin came from a well known Chicago Communist Party family. When John Lumpkin unsuccessfully stood for Alderman in Chicago’s 7th Ward in 1979, the “Committee to Elect Dr. John R. Lumpkin” was led by several Communist Party members, as well as activists Timuel Black and Quentin Young.
Black and Young both went on to join Democratic Socialists of America. Both also became personal friends, mentors and political supporters of Barack Obama. Quentin Young was Obama’s personal physician at one stage and attended the famous meeting where Obama’s political career was launched in the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Dr. Lumpkin & his staff (including Chiakulas) were also instrumental in the Hospital Management Career of one Michelle Obama.
More information here .
Freeper thread here .
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