Is Congressman Gutierrez another White House Criminal Czar? Congressman Gutierrez, is out of a job in November unless him and Obama can pull off the biggest illegal alien deal in human history. Among FBI files, Congressman Gutierrez has a few problems and being some kind of unemployed illegal alien advocate doesn't look good to the White House. Luis Gutiérrez always goes over to the White House to push and pull for more Wetbacks inside America. Obama, Holder, Pelosi and Reid are just dumb enough to buy his b.s. With the new Republican Senate, I suppose, that Luis Gutierrez will be questioned concerning his actions and activity, breaking the law and trying to collude and conspire with others to break the law. It's clear that Luis Guiterrez and many others do not represent America they only represent a very focused special interest group. Luis Gutierrez, is the less likely person to succeed in any future Congress. By then we'll have a new and improved DOJ that can investigate some of these illegal advocates and find out who pays them, how much and how many people profit from illegal aliens. Luis Gutierrez does not advocate for you, other groups, just illegal aliens from Mexico and now Central America. The NAACP and other minority groups feel the loss of support and the DNC moved over the blacks to feed the Mexicans. Obama, really doesn't care as long as the progressive democratic socialist party receives the vote. That Gutiérrez is of Puerto Rican descent and spearheads a number of campaigns to aid the Latino community – not only in Chicago, but across the country – goes a long way in Illinois’s 4th congressional district. Illinois’s 4th district is predominantly Latino – 74% – and contains a considerable amount of Puerto Ricans in its northern half. What the community doesn't understand that when the DOJ and FBI investigates Gutierrez they will reach back into every deal he has ever made. Once that's done the people that may have benefited from some kind of shadow relationship may end up in jail and the focus of yet another IRS probe.
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?
One possibility is that he is trying to distract
voters away from certain issues that have arisen, that shows the Congressman is
not necessarily ethical in all that he does.
For example in October of 2008 Gutierrez wrote to Henry Paulson, about Banco
Popular a bank based in Puerto Rico. In
an Oct. 20th letter, Gutierrez portrayed
the bank as a special case in need of an urgent rescue.
“Obviously, it is in the best interest of the U.S.
Government and Puerto Rico that Popular continue providing services to maintain
a safe and sound financial system,” Gutierrez wrote in the letter, obtained by
The Hill under the Freedom of Information Act.
Funny that Gutierrez forgot to mention in his
letter, that he has received almost 15 thousand dollars worth of campaign contributions from the bank
during his congressional career, or that his wife was a Senior Vice President
of the bank until 2007.
Here’s another fun fact
that Gutierrez may not want to become widely distributed, he can’t even vote
for himself, he moved out of his Congressional District two years ago:
The U.S. Constitution
doesn’t require congressmen to live in the districts they represent. The only
residency requirement is this: They have to live somewhere in the state from
which they are elected.
It’s not unusual for
congressional candidates to live outside the district they want to represent.
Typically, those who do promise to move to the district if elected. But it is
unusual for a congressman to move out of his district.
Gutierrez and his wife,
Soraida, moved out of his 4th Congressional District about two years ago, after
buying a condo at 3963 W. Belmont — in Quigley’s congressional district.
Gutierrez changed his voter registration to that address in August 2008, which
means he couldn’t vote for himself in November 2008 when he was re-elected to a
ninth term.
Speaking about
Gutierrez and housing, the Chicago Sun-Times that his daughter may have gotten
a sweetheart deal on her home in Chicago.
Gutierrez was the
mentor of former Chicago ward-26 alderman Billy Ocasio, who initiated
specialized affordable-housing programs in his district. With a $140,000 loan
from her parents, [Gutierrez's Daughter Omaira] Figueroa bought her new
two-bedroom, two-bathroom affordable condo in Humboldt Park in June 2008 for
$155,000, property records show.
Little more than a year
later, she sold it for $239,900 — $84,900, or 55 percent, more than she’d paid.
Had Figueroa’s condo been part of a typical affordable-housing program, that
wouldn’t have been possible. City of Chicago rules, for instance, now bar
affordable-housing buyers from turning big profits when they resell. The rules
also require that affordable homes remain affordable — they can be sold only to
buyers who meet income-eligibility guidelines.
But Ocasio says that
Figueroa purchase was a 26th Ward “community” initiative that “wasn’t an
official government program.”
While both the Ocasio
and Gutierrez say there was no favoritism
in the deal, the facts make that claim questionable.
For example 1,221-square-foot
duplex is on the first floor, facing the alley. She paid 41 percent less per
square foot than the next-cheapest unit, one that’s 1,773 square feet and sold
for $385,000.
In another Sun-Times
story, we learn that Gutierrez may have illegally helped his daughter get a
State job:
Omaira Figueroa became
a consumer counselor for the Illinois Commerce Commission in June 2004, after
Blagojevich aides included her in the then-secret hiring database under a
spreadsheet labeled “Gutierrez, Luis (CONG-D-4th Dist.)”
“There should be no
issues. She should get a letter offering the position in about 2 weeks,”
according to a note placed in the database the month before the ICC hired her.
A U.S. Supreme Court
ruling bans politics from factoring in to most state hiring, including the job
held by Gutierrez’s daughter. But that didn’t keep the since-indicted
Blagojevich from tracking 386 clout-heavy people who sponsored 5,700 candidates
for state jobs, transfers or promotions, according to the records, which list
Gutierrez as sponsoring 36 people.
Not to be outdone, the
Chicago Tribune is reporting that the FBI is snooping around Gutierrez’s real
estate deals:
The FBI has interviewed
City Hall employees and Chicago aldermen about U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s ties
to a corrupt developer, according to records and interviews that raise new
questions about the congressman amid an ongoing federal investigation.
A former alderman
convicted in the investigation told FBI agents that Gutierrez boasted of
helping his longtime political supporter Calvin Boender obtain a lucrative
zoning change for a development on the city’s West Side. Another alderman told
agents this year she thought Gutierrez was going to buy a home in the
development.
And several city
planners told investigators they were stunned by the highly unusual
intervention of a congressman in a local zoning matter.
The FBI asked about
Gutierrez as recently as February, but most of the inquiries occurred during
2008, the Tribune has learned, as federal authorities prepared their bribery
cases against Boender and former 29th Ward Ald. Isaac “Ike” Carothers.
The newly disclosed
details, coupled with the revelation at Boender’s March trial that Gutierrez
met with Mayor Richard Daley on Boender’s behalf, undermine the congressman’s
earlier assertions that his involvement was “extremely minimal.” The Tribune
has previously reported that Boender loaned Gutierrez $200,000 months before
the congressman began pushing Daley to support Boender’s venture.
The Congressman isn’t
new to scandal, although these charges may be the most serious. Back in 2005,
Ed Morrissey wrote about Gutierrez’s
nasty habit of tardy travel expense reporting for trips involving:
…special-interest
groups that actively lobby Congress, including the nation’s largest
government-employee union:
Representative Luis V.
Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat elected in 1992, filed reports last month
detailing 23 trips he took since 2000, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.
Mr. Gutierrez reported
a “fact-finding and educational” trip to Taiwan in 2001 that cost the Chinese
National Association of Industry and Commerce about $8,600, records show. That
same year, he went to Puerto Rico and Los Angeles to participate in an
immigration rally and other events as the guest of the Service Employees
International Union – a trip that cost about $3,700, records show. Mr.
Gutierrez also made trips to Guadalajara and Acapulco in Mexico, to Amman in
Jordan and Tel Aviv in Israel, as well as to less exotic destinations like
Tampa, San Antonio and Phoenix.
Congressman Gutierrez
has a lot going on in his life, helping banks that are campaign donors, moving
to a new home further away from his job, helping his daughter get both a job
and a house, and now an FBI investigation.
The poor man must be dead tired. No wonder why he took a few hours off
to go to a fake protest by the White House, followed by a nice ride in an
air-conditioned Police Car.
The Congressman seems
so tired, that voters of the 4th Congressional District should look very
closely at all the doings around him and give strong consideration to voting
him a nice vacation in November.
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