Obama Gives Up Questionable Donation (AP)

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Source: Associated Press

Obama Gives Up Questionable Donation

By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Friday, June 1, 2007; 3:40 PM

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
is donating to charity a $5,000 contribution to his 2004 Senate
campaign from an indicted former Illinois official, a spokesman
said Friday.

Ali Ata, the former executive director of the Illinois Finance
Authority, was charged Thursday with trying to help entrepreneur
Antoin Rezko borrow $10 million in a fraud scheme.

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Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the senator was on a flight
Friday afternoon so it was unclear whether he and Ata knew each
other personally besides sharing a close mutual friend in Rezko.

Ata, a frequent political contributor, donated $5,000 to Obama's
Senate campaign on June 30, 2003. After being asked about the
donation by The Associated Press, Burton said $5,000 from the
Senate campaign account would be donated to an unspecified
charity.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060101432.html

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1. ahhhh...i don't know

If it were me I would keep all legal donations and tell the questioners to move ahead to something more important.