Key witness at political fundraiser trial details drug binges
CHICAGO - The government’s star witness at political
fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s fraud trial gave an
embarrassing, detailed account Monday of how he gorged on powerful
drugs in his office, aboard chartered planes and in all-night
sessions with male companions in luxury hotels.
Attorney Stuart P. Levine, the political insider who claims he
and Rezko schemed to squeeze more than $7 million in kickbacks from
companies seeking state business, said he sometimes went to his
office after all-night drug parties and continued snorting crystal
methamphetamine and other powerful narcotics behind closed doors.
But he would be shocked to hear that his secretary had heard
him.
“The only thing I can say to you, Sir, is that if my snorting
was so loud that you could hear me snorting through a wall and a
door, then I’m amazed at the loudness of my snorting,” Levine told
Rezko’s chief defense counsel, Joseph J. Duffy.
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