{"id":189563,"date":"2010-03-11T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/11\/the-next-senator-from-illinois-will-be-a-republican\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T04:33:00","slug":"the-next-senator-from-illinois-will-be-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/11\/the-next-senator-from-illinois-will-be-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Senator from Illinois Will Be a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Dems nominated a guy, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexi_Giannoulias\">Alexi Giannoulias<\/a>, whose family made its money from the dodgy Broadway Bank, and he was its loan officer during the bubble years.<\/p>\n<p>And now, we have this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanchicagonews.com\/beaconnews\/news\/2097408,boston-blackies-check-fraud-031110.article\">Boston Blackie&#8217;s owner hit with bank fraud charges<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nick Giannis a big financial supporter of Alexi Giannoulias<\/p>\n<p>March 11, 2010<br \/>By RUMMANA HUSSAIN, ABDON M. PALLASCH and FRANK MAIN Staff Reporters<\/p>\n<p>On the same day Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias tried to shift the spotlight off his family\u2019s struggling bank and onto his opponent\u2019s bank ties,<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> police arrested a major Giannoulias contributor<\/span> and customer of the family bank as he tried to flee the country ahead of check-kiting charges.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Giannis, owner of the Boston Blackie\u2019s restaurant chain, was caught at the Canadian border with his Greek passport as he was being driven by a man believed to be an employee, sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it should be noted that one of the reasons that he got the Democratic nomination was that he is a close friend, a basketball buddy, of Barack Obama, though there was not, to the best of my knowledge any endorsement made during the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the Dems nominated a guy, Alexi Giannoulias, whose family made its money from the dodgy Broadway Bank, and he was its loan officer during the bubble years. And now, we have this: Boston Blackie&#8217;s owner hit with bank fraud charges Nick Giannis a big financial supporter of Alexi Giannoulias March 11, 2010By RUMMANA HUSSAIN, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}