John Valone
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John Valone grew up in the Little Flower Parish of Chicago, a graduate of Little Flower High School and currently resides in Monee, Illinois
. John Valone is an American, who has been President of Elevator Constructors Local 2 since 2004 and is Chairman of the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund. His name has surfaced in court documents on March 8, 2008 in the Tony Rezko
Federal Corruption Trial.
Website as evidence in the Tony Rezko
Federal Corruption trial. According to the document, John Valone's name surfaces at the bottom of page 2 "Rezko Donation Chart June 2001 to August 2004", it References the July 23, 2003; $10,000 Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC fund contribution that went through Tony Rezko
on July 24, 2003 and was deposited into Blagojevich's coffers on July 25, 2003. CBS 2 Chicago reported on March 4, 2008; that among the issues expected to come up at the Rezko Federal Corruption Trial is Blagojevich's 2003 appointment of a campaign donor to a state safety board.
The Associated Press
broke a story on March 3, 2008 that Union Officers from the Elevator Constructors received three appointments to the Illinois Elevator Safety Board in the same month the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund donated $10,000 to Governor Rod Blagojevich
's campaign in July 2003.
Monee, Illinois
Monee is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,924 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Monee is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....
. John Valone is an American, who has been President of Elevator Constructors Local 2 since 2004 and is Chairman of the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund. His name has surfaced in court documents on March 8, 2008 in the Tony Rezko
Tony Rezko
Antoin "Tony" Rezko is a Assyrian -American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois, convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rezko has been involved in fundraising for local Illinois Democratic and Republican politicians...
Federal Corruption Trial.
Donations and Charitable Cause
Since 2008, John Valone has raised $30,000 a year for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund with his annual Local 2 Golf Outing.PAC Fund donation to Blagojevich through Rezko in court documents
On March 8, 2008 a ten page document surfaced on the Department of JusticeUnited States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
Website as evidence in the Tony Rezko
Tony Rezko
Antoin "Tony" Rezko is a Assyrian -American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois, convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rezko has been involved in fundraising for local Illinois Democratic and Republican politicians...
Federal Corruption trial. According to the document, John Valone's name surfaces at the bottom of page 2 "Rezko Donation Chart June 2001 to August 2004", it References the July 23, 2003; $10,000 Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC fund contribution that went through Tony Rezko
Tony Rezko
Antoin "Tony" Rezko is a Assyrian -American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois, convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rezko has been involved in fundraising for local Illinois Democratic and Republican politicians...
on July 24, 2003 and was deposited into Blagojevich's coffers on July 25, 2003. CBS 2 Chicago reported on March 4, 2008; that among the issues expected to come up at the Rezko Federal Corruption Trial is Blagojevich's 2003 appointment of a campaign donor to a state safety board.
The Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
broke a story on March 3, 2008 that Union Officers from the Elevator Constructors received three appointments to the Illinois Elevator Safety Board in the same month the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund donated $10,000 to Governor Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich
Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago...
's campaign in July 2003.
External links
- http://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?id=15550 " $10,000 Contribution to Friends of Blagojevich on July 23, 2003 - look at D-2 Semiannual Report 7/1/2003 to 12/31/2003"
- http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39897&Itemid=317 "listen to WGN Radio report"
- http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=354438
- http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/tony.rezko.trial.2.668850.html
- http://searchjustice.usdoj.gov/search?q=valone&q=site%3Awww.usdoj.gov&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=iso-8859-1&oe=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection&q=inurl%3A%2Fusao%2Filn%2F "Department of Justice Website for $10,000 Campaign through Rezko"
- http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/hot/us_v_rezko_exhibits/2008_03_07/fob_chart_1.pdf "Note the bottom of Page 2"
- http://www.iuec2.com/