Sounds Like A Coalition…
“I’ve got this thing and it’s f***ing golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there,” Blagojevich said in a phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5, the day after the election, according to the affidavit.
The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser “the President-elect can get ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the President-elect’s pick to the Senate.”
Told by two other advisers he has to “suck it up” for two years, the FBI says it heard Blagojevich complain he has to give this “motherf***er [the President-elect] his Senator. F*** him. For nothing? F*** him.”
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is arrested in Chicago accused of attempting to benefit financially from his position to appoint Barack Obama’s Senate replacement.
Will Obama’s indictment be far behind?
Fitzgerald called Blagojevich’s actions in the last several weeks as “a political corruption crime spree.”
Change we can believe in…
December 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
And does this actually surprise ANYONE? This weasel (along with Rezko, Obama, and the majority of the rest of the Chicago political scene) is in this crap up to their eyeballs. Now, watch Obama oust all the federal prosecutors in an effort to cut this off before they can show how tightly he’s involved in this thing.
December 9th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Gov. Blagojevich will join a long and distinguished list of Illinois governors who have served behind bars.
Otto Kerner: Served from 1961 to 1968 – Kerner was convicted on bribery, tax evasion and other counts in 1973. He was convicted of arranging favorable horse racing dates as governor in return for getting horse racing association stock at reduced prices. He served less than one year of a three year sentence. Kerner died in 1976.
Dan Walker: Served from 1973 to 1977 – Walker pleaded guilty to bank fraud, misapplication of funds and perjury in 1987. The charges were not related to his service a governor. He served one and a half years.
George Ryan: Served from 1999 to 2003 – Ryan was convicted of corruption in 2006 for steering state contracts and leases to political insiders while he was Illinois’ secretary of state and then governor. He’s serving a 61/2-year prison term.
Haha, Chicago is so corrupt. It’s like the real Gotham City.