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  • Jury awards $23 million to investor who says was swindled by investors working with Rezko

    By Jonathan Bilyk |
    A federal jury has awarded almost $23 million to Semir Sirazi, an investor who claimed an investment group cheated him out of millions of dollars by executing a deal with corrupt Illinois campaign financier Antoin “Tony” Rezko to secretly transfer to them Rezko’s ownership interests in a large South Loop development property, helping Rezko skirt a requirement to repay Sirazi should the property be sold, while gaining access to large amounts of money as legal problems swirled about him.