Here is how Blagojevich’s saga unfolded — from arrest, through impeachment proceedings and the justice system. At 6:15 a.m., Gov. Rod Blagojevich is roused from his Ravenswood Manor home ...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents for what U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called a “staggering” level of corruption involving pay-to ...

Blagojevich was re-elected in 2006. The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges is the latest in a long list of high-profile cases for Patrick Fitzgerald. As the U.S ...

Rod Blagojevich, a fellow Chicago Democrat and the man with the sole authority to choose Obama's successor. Not 24 hours later, FBI agents arrested Blagojevich on public corruption charges.

It was “Senate for Sale” in Illinois, where Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday for a “corruption crime spree” – including charges he tried to auction Barack Obama‘s seat to the ...

Only minutes after news broke that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had been arrested for allegedly attempting to sell president-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, the Republican National Committee ...

By Monica Davey and Mitch Smith CHICAGO — Rod R. Blagojevich, whose criminal sentence President Trump has commuted, became a household name when he was arrested 12 years ago on an explosive ...

President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for Rod Blagojevich ... ridiculous sentence” at the time. Blagojevich was arrested by federal authorities in 2008 in an expansive ...