Blago Indicted
source: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/chi-blagojevich-indicted,0,6788626.story
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Federal prosecutors expanded their case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday in an indictment that drew more of his closest aides into the scandal and adds new schemes to the list of charges against him: Pocketing money funneled through his wife through a phony real estate job. Shaking down a powerful congressman. Running the state as a racket.
Coming nearly four months after federal agents roused a sitting governor out of his Northwest Side home in a predawn arrest—and weeks after lawmakers dumped him from power—Thursday's indictment of Blagojevich, his brother and four former top insiders could have been anti-climactic.
Instead, prosecutors added a few more chapters to the Blagojevich saga, further pulling his family into the pay-to-play conspiracy, revealing yet more confidants had turned on him and suggesting he was intent on corruption before he was even sworn in. The indictment carries a potentially lengthy prison sentence and possible forfeiture of his family home should Blagojevich be convicted.
After turning Illinois politics into an amusement-park ride, most notably for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich spent the day of his indictment with his family at Disney World.
Coming nearly four months after federal agents roused a sitting governor out of his Northwest Side home in a predawn arrest—and weeks after lawmakers dumped him from power—Thursday's indictment of Blagojevich, his brother and four former top insiders could have been anti-climactic.
Instead, prosecutors added a few more chapters to the Blagojevich saga, further pulling his family into the pay-to-play conspiracy, revealing yet more confidants had turned on him and suggesting he was intent on corruption before he was even sworn in. The indictment carries a potentially lengthy prison sentence and possible forfeiture of his family home should Blagojevich be convicted.
After turning Illinois politics into an amusement-park ride, most notably for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich spent the day of his indictment with his family at Disney World.
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abipolarmind
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I tried to blow the whistle on his buddy Tony Resko in 2001, nobody listened. Resko checks to me bounced, the ones he wrote to Obama cleared.
- 2 years ago
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abipolarmind
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Ihatethemall
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I told y'all 6 or 8 months ago that this clown would be sharing a cell with the last Governor of Illinois. Politicians from Illinois are the worst. Rahm Emanuel is guily too. obama will keep him out of the hot seat somehow though.
- 2 years ago
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Ihatethemall
