{"id":2495,"date":"2008-04-01T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2008-04-01T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:27:59","slug":"rezko-trial-uncovers-drug-fueled-party-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/04\/rezko-trial-uncovers-drug-fueled-party-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/8d6baabb-301e-44d6-be7d-8cf3bc7dfbc8.jpg\" alt=\"8D6BAABB-301E-44D6-BE7D-8CF3BC7DFBC8.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"468\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosenation.com\/listing.php?id=4476\" >Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days<\/a>: &#8220;For those of you following the US political race you might know about Tony Rezko, a Chicago political fundraiser linked to the Obama campaign, and his ongoing fraud trial. What you may not know is that his partner in crime, Stuart P. Levine, was a first-class head who liked to party down at drug orgies, as recent court testimony confirms:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote><p>Levine focused a harsh spotlight on decades of taking marijuana, cocaine, quaaludes, LSD, Ecstasy, crystal methamphetamine and ketamine, which goes under the street name Special K.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nHe said he took the drugs once or twice a month, mainly at parties with unspecified male friends. They brought the drugs and he would buy, often paying about $1,000, he said.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nWhen in town, the parties would often take place in a suburban rendezvous &#8216;that came to be known as the purple hotel,&#8217; Levine testified.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p \/>\nLevine testified that his parties started in the morning and lasted until evening when he would go home as if he&#8217;d spent a hard day at the office.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n&#8216;To deceive my family,&#8217; he testified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\nGosh, that doesn&#8217;t sound familiar <b>at all<\/b>. At least he picked the good drugs. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/stories\/040108\/POL_BG7FDTV9.047.php\" >www.pjstar.com<\/a>. Posted by jamesk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dosenation.com\" >DoseNation<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Golgatha and the circle closes<\/i> by Edgar Froese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days: &#8220;For those of you following the US political race you might know about Tony Rezko, a Chicago political fundraiser linked to the Obama campaign, and his ongoing fraud trial. What you may not know is that his partner in crime, Stuart P. Levine, was a first-class head who liked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/04\/rezko-trial-uncovers-drug-fueled-party-days\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-Ef","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}