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Blagojevich and his wife hug in courtroom; "Let's just go home." June 27, 2011 -- A "stunned" Rod Blagojevich and wife ... The jury deadlocked on two charges of attempted extortion related to ...
Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor tried on corruption charges including attempting to leverage his power to fill President Obama’s vacated Senate seat in exchange for cash or a job ...
Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 ... U.S. District Judge James Zagel said in announcing Blagojevich's sentence for 18 corruption charges, including his attempt to sell or trade an appointment ...
CHICAGO – Rod Blagojevich, who won two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of a wide range of corruption charges, including trying to ...
Rod Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday ... Fitzgerald said in a statement that “the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering.” “They allege that Blagojevich ...
The day in March 2012 that Rod Blagojevich headed off to federal prison on corruption charges, it seemed to most of us in Illinois, and around the country, that justice had been done. An unsavory ...
Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison ... surrounded by media after pleading not guilty to federal corruption charges. (M. Spencer Green/AP) The former governor is in the Dirksen U.S ...
Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor convicted on corruption charges related to attempting to sell his appointment of President Obama’s vacant Senate seat, will face 14 years in prison.
Rod Blagojevich never allowed himself to even think about spending the next decade of his life behind bars. Less than an hour before he began serving his 14-year sentence on corruption charges ...
President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who served eight years in prison on corruption charges until Trump ...
Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday ...