John Valone

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John Valone (born 1951, Chicago, Illinois), grew up in the Little Flower Parish of Chicago, a graduate of and currently resides in Monee, Illinois. John Valone is an American, who has been President of Elevator Constructors Local 2 since 2004 and is Chairman of the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund. His name has surfaced in court documents on March 8, 2008, in the Tony Rezko Federal Corruption Trial.^[1][2]

Donations and Charitable Cause[]

Since 2008, John Valone has raised $30,000 a year for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund with his annual Local 2 Golf Outing.

PAC Fund donation to Blagojevich through Rezko in court documents[]

On March 8, 2008, a ten-page document surfaced on the Department of Justice Website as evidence in the Tony Rezko Federal Corruption trial. According to the document, John Valone's name surfaces at the bottom of page 2 "Rezko Donation Chart June 2001 to August 2004", it References the July 23, 2003; $10,000 Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC fund contribution that went through Tony Rezko on July 24, 2003, and was deposited into Blagojevich's coffers on July 25, 2003. CBS 2 Chicago reported on March 4, 2008; that among the issues expected to come up at the Rezko Federal Corruption Trial is Blagojevich's 2003 appointment of a campaign donor to a state safety board.^[2][3][4]

The Associated Press broke a story on March 3, 2008, that Union Officers from the Elevator Constructors received three appointments to the in the same month the Elevator Constructors Local 2 PAC Fund donated $10,000 to Governor Rod Blagojevich's campaign in July 2003.^[1][5]

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External links[]

• http://www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisclosure/CommitteeDetail.aspx?id=15550 " $10,000 Contribution to Friends of Blagojevich on July 23, 2003 - look at D-2 Semiannual Report 7/1/2003 to 12/31/2003"
• http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39897&Itemid=317 "listen to WGN Radio report"
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120212140504/http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=354438
• http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/tony.rezko.trial.2.668850.html
• http://searchjustice.usdoj.gov/search?q=valone&q=site%3Awww.usdoj.gov&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=iso-8859-1&oe=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection&q=inurl%3A%2Fusao%2Filn%2F "Department of Justice Website for $10,000 Campaign through Rezko"
• http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/hot/us_v_rezko_exhibits/2008_03_07/fob_chart_1.pdf "Note the bottom of Page 2"
• http://www.iuec2.com/