Qatar Talk

So the emir of Qatar may be cutting loose with come cash for the ALPLM. The SJ-R's Bernard Schoenberg has the details.

ANTOIN "TONY" REZKO, a prominent businessman who has had what appears to be a significant influence on the administration of Gov. ROD BLAGOJEVICH, says it
was he who arranged the recent visit of the emir of Qatar to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield.

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"He had never heard of Springfield before," Rezko said of the emir.

"The expectation is within three months he will make a donation" to the museum, he added. "I'm planning to get him to do business in Illinois."

So is the emir going to give the money because he likes the museum or to help grease the wheels of commerce in the state, so to speak?