Blagojevich developed a relationship with Trump when he appeared as a contestant on the ninth season of Celebrity Apprentice. Blagojevich was eventually “fired” by the president in the fourth ...

Blagojevich, a former "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant, served eight years in prison on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat after Obama won the 2008 presidential ...

"He didn't have to do this, he's a Republican president, I was a Democratic governor," Blagojevich also said at the time. In 2009 while appearing on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice," Blagojevich can ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned a range of celebrities and public figures, from rappers to reality TV stars.

In pardoning Blagojevich, Trump said that he did not know the former governor other than from his appearance on The Celebrity Apprentice. "It's my honor to do it," Trump said during remarks from ...

Trump and Blagojevich have crossed paths before. The two men knew each other when the former governor appeared as a contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice.” In 2020, upon his release from prison ...

Blagojevich, a Democrat who appeared on Trump’s reality TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice,” was convicted in 2011 and sentenced for 14 years. He served eight years before Trump, a Republican ...

The IUOE, a powerful construction union, has been a key player on the New York development scene for decades and thus has a ...

His relationship with Trump dates back to when Blagojevich starred on "The Celebrity Apprentice" while under indictment and after he was twice impeached. It was an appearance that Trump said took ...

In 2009, Donald Trump fired Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, from “The Celebrity Apprentice.” “Your ‘Harry Potter’ facts were not accurate,” Trump told Blagojevich ...

The following year, he appeared and was booted off Donald Trump's reality TV show, Celebrity Apprentice. Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 and later sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served ...