Were Emanuels tenant demands for $100K related to residency case?

Witness: Emanuel's renter wanted $100K to move out
CHICAGO (AP) - A hearing over residency challenges to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral bid grinded on Thursday with a witness testifying that Emanuel's tenant wanted $100,000 to move out of his Chicago house when the former White House Chief of Staff came back to run for the city's top job. Paul Levy, a friend of Emanuel's who has advised him on Real Estate matters, said he reached out to businessman Rob Halpin and his family about breaking their lease early so Emanuel could move back into his home after...

Making the Case on Rahm Emanuel's Residency
Chicago - After three days of Testimony over Income Tax records, boxes in a basement and the location of a Wedding Dress, lawyers on Thursday laid out legal arguments over whether Rahm Emanuel should appear on the ballot for Chicago mayor. The leading attorney against Mr. Emanuel’s bid, Burt Odelson, said that local case law had found that a Candidate must have a “physical presence” in Chicago for a year prior to an election. He argued that Mr. Emanuel, who worked as President Obam

Emanuel eligibility hearing wraps up
Published: Dec. 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel laughs as he prepares to testify as a witness at a hearing before the Chicago Board of Elections in Chicago on December 14, 2010. Emanuel's candidacy for mayor of Chicago is being challenged on the basis of a law that requires Chicago residency for one year prior to running for municipal office. UPI/Brian Kersey CHICAGO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A hearing on Rahm Emanuel's eligibility to run for mayor of Chicago end...

Boxes found! OR Photos faked?!
Boxes containing some of the belongings of Chicago Mayoral Candidate Rahm Emanuel and his family were found in a crawl space of their home in the Ravenswood community. The mayoral-race mystery of where Candidate Rahm Emanuel stored boxes of personal items has been solved. Attorneys for Emanuel visited the house he owns in Ravenswood at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, located the much-discussed “crawl space,” looked inside and found the valuable items Emanuel had maintained he had stored there. T...

Items Found in Emanuel's Crawl Space
Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel did indeed store stuff in the Chicago home he rented to a tenant when he moved to Washington, the Chicago Sun Times reports. His lawyers visited home and took pictures after his tenant testified nothing was there. Emanuel has argued "the fact they left the items there while Emanuel went to Washington D.C. to work as President Obama's Chief of Staff shows he always planned to return to Chicago -- and therefore should be eligible to run for mayor." ...

Rahm Emanueuls Chicago residency still open to dabate
Attorneys for former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are focused on showing that he always planned to come back to Chicago after he finished working for President Barack Obama. A Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel’s mayoral bid enters its third day Thursday with more witnesses expected to testify. More than two dozen opponents say he doesn’t have a legal right to run because he lived for nearly two years in Washington. Wednesday...

Obama agenda: Aloha?
President Obama will delay his annual trip to his birth state of Hawaii in order to sign the tax bill. The New York Times’s Leonhardt notes that Conservatives’ political attacks against the health-care law are similar to the Conservatives’ (unsuccessful) crusades against Medicare, Social Security, and other expansions of the safety net. "Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, testified yesterday about his wife’s Wedding Dress, family China, and car...

Rahm's crawlspace: Center of the Board of Elections hearing
Day two of Rahm Emanuel ’s Board of Election’s residency hearing turned into a debate about what is and what isn’t in Emanuel’s basement.  Laurie Halpin , wife of Robert Halpin who momentarily ran for Chicago mayor and temporarily refuses to move out of Emanuel’s House which he has been leasing on Hermitage Avenue, challenged Testimony given the day before by Emanuel.  On Tuesday, Emanuel spoke of family treasures being stored in the basement of which Lau...

Rahmstoppers Face Off With Rahm at Hearing
By Dionne Searcey Having spent our formative years of adulthood in Chicago, we at the Law Blog figure we could come up with a list of questions that would settle in a jiffy the kerfuffle over Rahm Emanuel’s residency that is playing out in a hearing there. Hearing officer: Mr. Emanuel, where can you find the best Cheeseburger, best cheese fries, best record store, best band and best tall downtown building to sneak onto the roof of and watch the ice floats along the Chicago River? If he can’t an..

Renter Testifies at Emanuel's Residency Hearing
(Chicago) — A friend of Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel's wife testified Wednesday that she helped pack away their family heirlooms and other mementos for storage before Emanuel moved to Washington to become President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Mee Kim-Chavez spoke at a Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel's bid for the city's top job. She said she helped Emanuel's wife, Amy Rule, store 20 to 30 boxes in a crawl space under a home add...

President Obama's "B.S. list" for Senate seat: Hynes, Duckworth, Jackson and Schakowsky
After Valerie Jarrett publicly pulled out of contention for the U.S. Senate seat appointment, Rahm Emanuel called Rod Blagojevich's top aide. Emanuel had a list of "acceptable" names and it was from the then-President-Elect, according to Testimony in Rod Blagojevich's Corruption trial. Emanuel, now Obama's Chief of Staff, relayed four names whom "the president would find acceptable," according to then-chief of staff John Harris, who is on the witness stand. They were: Tammy Duckworth, State Com...

What's in Emanuel's basement?
The fight over Rahm Emanuel's eligibility to run for mayor turned into a debate Wednesday over what's in the basement of his Chicago home. On day two of a rambling hearing into claims that Emanuel doesn't meet the one-year residency rule for Candidates, Testimony focused on his contention that his family left prized possessions stored in their North Side house when they went to Washington for his job as President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Emanuel's attorneys argue that that shows he intend...

Emanuels Chicago residency hearing enters 3rd day
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorneys for former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are focused on showing that he always planned to come back to Chicago after he finished working for President Barack Obama. A Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel’s mayoral bid enters its third day Thursday with more witnesses expected to testify. More than two dozen opponents say he doesn’t have a legal right to run because he lived for nearly two years in ...

Did Rahm Emanuel steal a NYT vending machine after Obama's Inauguration?
The Chicago Sun Times has a picture of Rahm Emanuel's storage space in Chicago. See it here. You'll notice there's a New York Times machine there. I'm pretty sure it's the edition from the day after Obama's inauguration -- Rahm's first day as White House Chief of Staff. See this picture. Am I right? How did he get the machine? Did Rahm Emanuel steal a NYT vending machine after Obama's Inauguration? ...

Rahm Emanuel's Residency Hearing: Day Three To Focus On Plan To Return From Washington
Chicago — Attorneys for former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are focused on showing that he always planned to come back to Chicago after he finished working for President Barack Obama. A Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel's mayoral bid enters its third day Thursday with more witnesses expected to testify. More than two dozen opponents say he doesn't have a legal right to run because he lived for nearly two years in Washington. Wed...

Spain's bad loan ratio highest in 14 years
A union Activist shouts slogans against the government as they march to Protest outside the finance ministry building in Madrid on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Ratings agency Moody's on Wednesday warned it may downgrade Spain's Debt because the government is vulnerable to a borrowing crunch next year, when the recapitalization of weak banks could prove more costly than expected for public finances. Spain's Central Bank says the bad loans ratio for the country's banks and Financial Institutions ros...

Realtor says Emanuel planned Chicago return
The third day of a hearing on challenges to Rahm Emanuel's place on the Chicago mayoral ballot began with a new witness, Paul Levy, a Real Estate manager who found the North Side home Emanuel purchased in 1998. The Hermitage Avenue home on the North Side was perfect for Emanuel and his family, Levy said, testifying that Emanuel purchased it and moved in after coming home from a post in the Clinton Administration. Read more in Clout Street. ...

At Issue in Emanuel Hearing: Boxes in Basement
Chicago — The contents of Rahm Emanuel’s basement took center stage on Wednesday in an election board hearing to determine whether he can run for mayor. A tenant who is renting Mr. Emanuel’s home here told a hearing officer that she had never seen any of the boxes Mr. Emanuel said he stored in the basement when he left for Washington to work as President Obama’s Chief of Staff. The tenant, Lori Halpin, testified during the second day of hearings over whether Mr. Emanuel meets the

Renter Testifies at Emanuel's Residency Hearing
(Chicago) — A friend of Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel's wife testified Wednesday that she helped pack away their family heirlooms and other mementos for storage before Emanuel moved to Washington to become President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff. Mee Kim-Chavez spoke at a Chicago Board of Election Commissioners hearing on residency challenges to Emanuel's bid for the city's top job. She said she helped Emanuel's wife, Amy Rule, store 20 to 30 boxes in a crawl space under a home add...

Rob Halpin tried to shake Rahm down legally for $100,000
First it was reported that Rob Halpin refused to get out of Rahm Emanuel 's house when Rahm decided to leave Washington, D.C. as President Barack Obama 's Chief of Staff to concentrate on a run for mayor of Chicago after Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he was 'outta there.'  Though the law says a person may be out of the city to be a federal public servant, the trouble began for Rahm concerning elibigility to run, Naturally, Halpin's refusing to get out of Rahm's home assisted two dozen no...

Emanuel awaits board's decision on residency challenge
Deliberations have started in Rahm Emanuel's mayoral ballot challenge hearing and are expected to conclude next week.  That's when the former White House Chief of Staff will learn whether he overcame the objections to his eligibility for the Feb. 22 mayoral primary ballot.  At issue is whether Emanuel meets the one-year residency requirement to appear on the ballot. 

Emanuel's attorney, Kevin Forde, told the Chicago Board of Election officials that the former congressman always inte

Rahmshtupper
Washington Times The Chicago Way is under way…again. This week, a Chicago Mayoral Candidate and opponent of Rahm Emanuel, a successful businessman named Tom Hanson, was removed from the ballot. Why? Because the City of Chicago lost his Statement of Economic Interest. According to Hanson, who previously ran against Rahm Emanuel for Congress, he even has the Chicago Board of Elections’ receipt of filing. Regardless, a hearing on Monday determined that he cannot be reinstated. (Are you laughi...

Closing arguments begin in 'The Large Guy' racketeering case
For the entire five-week trial, Michael "The Large Guy" Sarno has sat in a corner of the courtroom to the rear of his fellow defendants. In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors said the beefy reputed mob boss also was behind them as they committed dozens of robberies, trafficked stolen goods and raked in cash from illegal gambling. Few of the 80 witnesses called to the stand testified they had said more than a few words to Sarno -- and often only four-letter words at that. Sarno made only a...

Protesters complain about oil spill claims process
Baton Rouge, La. — Ministers and others affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference protested at the Louisiana Capitol what they called an unfair process for doling out money to Gulf Oil Spill Victims. About 250 people were part of the Protest Thursday. They say Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of a $20 billion fund set up by BP PLC, isn’t doing enough for the poorest claimants, like hotel and restaurant workers. They say claims are denied with little explana...

Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About Bad Art, Good Biographies, and the Smithsonian Controversy
Amid the chatter about of the videotape by David Wojnarowicz that was removed from the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, someone told me that a New Republic writer has protested that the New Museum is now showing the video in its lobby. Is this true? I’m afraid you heard right. The New Republic writer you’re referring to is the ultra-conservative art critic Jed Perl. He’s a man who regularly disparages contemporary art, and he’s taken this opportunity to grands...