Rod Blagojevich
“I cannot even wrap my head around this — six months of probation vs. 14 years for Rod,” Patti Blagojevich wrote. “Where is the outrage??”
The president is just trying to change the subject.
‘I floated it and I wanted to see where the Democrats stood where the Republicans stood,’ Trump said.
“I requested that we have an opportunity to weigh in before a final decision is made,” Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday.
Trump went back on his promise to commute Blagojevich’s sentence, but the press keeps misreporting the facts about what the ex-governor did.
It’s unclear who put the balloons on the Blagojevich family porch. Nor does it seem any clearer when, or if, President Trump might set former Gov. Rod Blagojevich free.
How did Blagojevich’s clemency prospects get resurrected in 2019? “It was Jared,” I was told.
Months before his arrest, the former governor recited this poem — and little else — in a conversation at the Democratic National Convention.
Key events in Rod Blagojevich’s rise, fall and bids for freedom.
‘She’s one hell of a woman,’ the president said Wednesday of the former Illinois First Lady.
“White House staff is continuing the review of this matter,” Trump said in a Thursday night tweet about whether he will free former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
What I find most galling about the latest effort to justify President Trump’s decision is his attack on the people involved in investigating and prosecuting Rod Blagojevich.
On Air Force One Wednesday night, the president said, “So Rod Blagojevich — I am thinking very seriously about commuting his sentence so that he can go home to his family after seven years.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. have sent a letter to Donald Trump asking for Blagojevich’s pardon
The letter follows several attempts by Patti Blagojevich to plead with the president for her husband’s release from federal prison.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Heather McShain called Willie Cochran’s actions “a classic case of public corruption,” a characterization that Cochran’s attorneys have disputed.
It could be another attempt to catch the eye of the last person who apparently can get former Gov. Rod Blagojevich out of jail early: President Trump.
When former governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich were facing criminal charges in federal court, they told juries they were victims of a culture of corruption in Springfield.
President Donald Trump called a Fox News interview — which aired Friday — with Blagojevich’s wife, Patti, “required television watching.”
“I think there’s nothing but sunshine hanging over me,” a grinning Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Dec. 8, 2008. The next day brought rain and a swarm of FB
SNEED: Imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s hair is still gray, says a source, and he still is helping teach classes to fellow prisoners.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich used to block out the entire day on his schedule to do his hair, says a former top aide.
Patti Blagojevich understands this president: He lifts a finger for nobody unless something good redounds to him.
Patti continues to blame Barack Obama, Robert Mueller, James Comey, and Patrick Fitzgerald, but she needs to look in her own backyard.
The seven Republican members in Congress from Illinois urged Trump not to commute the sentence of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
The former governor’s attorney, Leonard Goodman, says the 53-page document was filed Tuesday afternoon in federal court.
J.B. Pritzker’s campaign says “the former governor is where he belongs” and Bruce Rauner says Rod Blagojevich is where he “deserves” to be.