Comments on: Pogrom: The Starker and the Cossack – Big Jack Zelig & NYPD Capt. Charles Becker http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/pogrom-the-starker-and-the-cossack-big-jack-zelig-nypd-capt-charles-becker/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Kelley http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/pogrom-the-starker-and-the-cossack-big-jack-zelig-nypd-capt-charles-becker/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Dan Kelley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/pogrom-the-starker-and-the-cossack-big-jack-zelig-nypd-capt-charles-becker,2125#comment-269 It is nice to know that the Annenberg family fortune, which was in turn was used to fund the multimillion dollar Annenberg Challenge grant used by Barack Obama and his mentor Bill Ayers in an unsuccessful effort to "reform" the Chicago public schools, had its origins in the newspaper circulation wars which served as the training grounds for the future leaders of organized crime in Chicago. As the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. It is nice to know that the Annenberg family fortune, which was in turn was used to fund the multimillion dollar Annenberg Challenge grant used by Barack Obama and his mentor Bill Ayers in an unsuccessful effort to “reform” the Chicago public schools, had its origins in the newspaper circulation wars which served as the training grounds for the future leaders of organized crime in Chicago.

As the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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