Roland Burris, the longtime Illinois politician appointed to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat by Illinois Gov.

Episode 2: All Falls Down The FBI taps Rod's phone and offices in hopes to prove he indeed tried to sell the vacant Senate seat of President-Elect Barack Obama. Rod maintains he was trying to make ...

The court's opinion states that "no further action is required by the secretary of state or any other official to make the governor's appointment of Roland Burris to the United St ...

Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison, in 2011, after he was convicted of multiple federal corruption charges, including trying to solicit money to fill Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat.

Rod Blagojevich asked a judge Monday to order prosecutors to hand over written summaries of any FBI interviews with President Barack Obama about the ousted Illinois governor's corruption case.

Nayak was an early Blagojevich supporter, repeatedly tapping his affluent Indian-American friends for campaign donations and serving along with then-state Sen. Obama on the governor's health-care ...

Blagojevich, 63, hails from a state with a long history of pay-to-play schemes. He was convicted in 2011 of crimes that included seeking to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's old Senate seat ...

WASHINGTON In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the ...

Blagojevich, 63, hails from a state with a long history of pay-to-play schemes. He was convicted in 2011 of crimes that included seeking to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's old Senate seat ...