Community | December 18, 2008 | 3 comments

Ill. governor wiretaps illegally obtained

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor

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A lawyer for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told state lawmakers Thursday that the federal wiretaps at the heart of the pay-to-play allegations against his client were illegally obtained, and therefore should be kept out of any impeachment proceedings. The wiretaps are crucial to the federal charges filed against Blagojevich last week. Prosecutors say they caught the Democratic governor discussing efforts to auction off Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat and pressure a hospital executive for campaign donations.

Genson told the impeachment committee that it shouldn't consider any material from the wiretaps, saying the evidence was "illegally obtained."
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3 comments // Ill. governor wiretaps illegally obtained

  • phoenixtoo
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      phoenixtoo  

    • These are gambits by the defense attorney, they have not been upheld by any court. This is exactly what one would expect an attorney to say.According to the article the legislature may not have to consider the wiretaps at all, the legislature is not a court of law, they can rule and usually do rule on impeachment without any conviction in a court of law, there is not a court to which an impeachment could be subject to overturning and if there was, it would be too late to have any actual effect.The question is does the legislature have the will to act?

    • 3 years ago
  • NEwsNuT888
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      NEwsNuT888  

    • Wow, so the people trying to catch someone doing something illegal did so by doing something illegal themselves. Does it get any worse?

    • 3 years ago
  • TravG73
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