Thread: Gutierrez's corruption,shielded by public support in Chicago

Rep. Gutierrez's corruption is shielded by public support in Chicago
May 4, 8:14 PM
Hector Alamo
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This week Chicago’s inspector general announced that the city will be investigating a program under which the daughter of U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez was able to buy a piece of property and sell it months later at a 55-percent profit.

In 2008 Gutiérrez’s daughter, Omaira Figueroa, bought a four-unit building in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood under a program that reduced property prices and designated them to struggling families. She bought the property for $155,000 and sold it for $239,900 in 2009, earning herself an $84,900 profit in the process.

Rep. Gutiérrez – who has served Illinois’s 4th congressional district since 1993 – has become an ambiguous figure in Chicago politics. The congressman is simultaneously the highly-popular spokesman of the city’s Latino community and the shadowy politician regularly suspected of improper practices.

He has been linked to a 2004 scandal in which he lobbied Mayor Richard Daley to okay zoning for residential development. A few experts at the time commented on the peculiarity of a U.S. congressman lobbying on behalf of a development plan outside his own district. An investigation revealed that Gutiérrez had received a $200,000 loan from the developer, Calvin Boender, just months prior to Gutiérrez’s personal letter to the mayor advocating the rezoning

Boender was later federally indicted in connection with the same development Gutiérrez had lobbied for – the Galewood Yards project on the city’s West Side. Although Gutiérrez was never indicted himself, Ald. Ike Carothers pled guilty to taking bribes in exchange for supporting plans to rezone the area for residential use.

And if any improprieties are uncovered as a result of the city's current investigation, it won’t be the first time the representative is tied to the practice of buying properties at discounted rates only to quickly re-sell them when market prices climb – a practice known as “flipping.â€

If thats the case, than he is NOT unlike most U S politicians with regards to greed and corruption. I think Americans are getting too used to this.

The fact that he is a hispanic supremist and supports marxism, open borders, amnesty, the north american union with mexico, and the new world order means he is part of the BIG problem for Americans who prefer U S Sovereignty, U S Law, and the Constitution though.

Chicago’s Latino community is caught in an ideological dilemma: do they support Rep. Gutiérrez as the local champion of various Latino and Democratic causes; or do they revile him as the crooked politician in Chicago’s long line of crooked politicians?

It appears they’ve chosen the first option.

Crooks will always vote for crooks.

A Ben Velez for our time.

My family & friends apologies ONCE again for the corrupt Illinois politics. If any fool is from Illiois just vote NO!!!!!!!!!!!

And I am sure it leads all the way to the top, too. Good article. When you look at the federal restrictions on lobbying on behalf of foreign interest probably a lot of his ilk are equally guilty.

Luis Gutierrez's daughter's sweet housing deal
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-197598.html

Rep. Gutierrez arrested outside of White House in immigration
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-197259.html