POLITICS - Obama grant being probed

[45Jack]

Obama's $100K Grant for a Garden Never Built
From the Chicago Sun-Times:

September 25, 2008

BY CHRIS FUSCO AND DAVE MCKINNEY

A group headed gy Kenny B. Smith (top right) was awarded a state grant by then-state Sen. Barack Obama to create a botanic garden in Englewood. Plans now call for the city to take back the garden site because the project never happened. Attorney General Lisa Madigan is investigating.


A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.

The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood...

Full Article: http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/ ... 25.article#

[Birdman]

I can't believe something like that would happen in Chicago.

[Old Ironsights]

But but... How could Emperor Daley's TuQuoque'ing son-of-a Muslim ever be involved in Chicago Outfit Politics?