Update: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich met with a renowned Chicago criminal lawyer Saturday as he weighed his legal options on how to fight a scandal that has left his career in tatters and disrupted President-elect Barack Obama’s White House transition. Source: Newsmax
Would anyone like to take a guess of how long it will be before Rod Blagojevich starts singing for a deal? We know he’s not going down alone if he can help it!
The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange for Blagojevich naming Obama’s friend Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the U.S. Senate.
Emanuel was uncharacteristically absent from Obama’s news conference this morning. He was spotted two hours later in the lobby of Chicago’s City Hall. He was there to listen to his two children performing in a concert with their school, Anshe Emet.
SOURCE: SUN TIMESThe firestorm surrounding Governor Blagojevich is putting some heat on Barack Obama’s transition team. Fox Chicago News has learned about possible conversations between a top Obama aide and the governor regarding the open senate seat. Craig Wall has the exclusive.
SOURCE: MYfox ChicagoBlagojevich Confidant Turned Informant
Wyma, 41, was close to much of the alleged wrongdoing during the feds’ five-year probe, and he remains a subject of the government’s investigation into the Illinois Health Planning Facilities Board, according to the criminal complaint for Blagojevich. But Wyma’s turn from confidant to informant ultimately inched prosecutors to the governor’s most recent — and most brazen — alleged attempts to trade political favors for campaign cash, the complaint states.
“This has been going on for at least five years,” said Canary. “Every company he’s ever represented needs to be scrutinized.”
The first time I click on Myfox Chicago I got a note saying that there was no report found in this section…?? But then later I click on Myfox Chicago there was and also a video! It seem to me that it would be easy to let someone under a person to do the dirty work and take the heat if caught! I’m telling you this will get interesting before its over with and Obama as president will suffer over the next few years because of this corruption.
LINKS:
(1) Rahm-bo hides behind his kids: Don’t ask me questions. I’m a daddy!
(2) Change You Can’t Believe In: Barack Obama Met with Governor Blagojevich After Election
(3) Chicagobama: Corrupt to the Core
(4) The timeline of activity outlined in the FBI’s 76-page complaint against Blagojevich suggests Obama’s team was aware that his home-state governor was playing political hardball in the weeks before his arrest
(5) Obama and Blagojevich
