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Read More »Rod Blagojevich Comes Home to Chicago, Defiant, ‘Bloody,’ Ready to Talk
CHICAGO — Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, emerged from his brick bungalow on Chicago’s North Side into shivering cold air on Wednesday, coatless, tieless and remorseless. Mr. Blagojevich, who had been in a Colorado prison until a day earlier, denounced a broken justice system, spoke of his …
Read More »Defiant Blagojevich heaps praise on Trump after commutation
In 2015, a federal appeals court overturned four of the original 18 counts on which Blagojevich was convicted, ruling that aspects of his handling of the Senate vacancy amounted to traditional political “logrolling” that wasn’t illegal. But it upheld the other counts and triggered a resentencing that affirmed his original …
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