Irony

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has never tired of promising his audiences an end to the "Scooter Libby era of justice." For that reason, the UK version of The Times probably had great fun constructing this passage:

The other potential threat to Obama comes from the indictment of one of his leading donors, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a Syrian-born property developer in Chicago, who is accused of extortion. Rezko has been indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald - the prosecutor who brought down the White House official Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the press magnate Conrad Black - for seeking millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies bidding for state business in Illinois. He is due to appear in court on February 24.

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