… However, there is a side to Alexi Giannoulias that he really does not want the voters of Illinois to know about. During the primary campaign Giannoulias noted that the Republican front-runner Mark Kirk had accepted more than $320,000 in campaign contributions from insurers. It is interesting that Giannoulias was so interested in digging up stories involving campaign funds. Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients of the Broadway Bank have included Michael Giorango, who was a Florida real estate developer who’s been convicted of running illegal bookmaking and was also convicted for operating prostitution rings. Other clients of Broadway Bank included Boris Stratievsky and his son Lev Stratievsky, who were eventually convicted of money laundering of drug money for the Ukrainian mafia. Yet another client of Broadway Bank was Tony Rezko, who was a developer who was later convicted of both fraud and money laundering for his part in the attempted selling of the US Illinois Senate seat during the administration of Governor Blagojevich.
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