Topic: Rob Blagojevich

Blagojevich lawyers face decision time on jury

AP News - 620 days ago
Blagojevich's lawyers face crucial final decisions on jury before real drama beginsRod Blagojevich's lawyers will be making their final, crucial jury decisions before the real drama begins in the former governor's racketeering and fraud trial — one of the biggest such cases ...
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Feds listened to Blago brother's calls with wife

AP News - 787 days ago
Feds listened in on Blagojevich brother's phone talks with wife _ defense attorney objectsAn attorney told the judge in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case Tuesday that FBI agents improperly recorded 208 phone conversations between the former governor's brother and his ...
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No perjury charge against Sen. Burris: prosecutor

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 973 days ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Illinois prosecutor investigating the appointment of Roland Burris to President Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat said on Friday there was insufficient evidence to charge Burris with perjury.Some of Burris' answers to questions posed by an Illinois legislative ...
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Senate Ethics Committee to Hear Burris Tapes

Wall Street Journal Health Blog - 997 days ago
The U.S. Senate ethics committee will be allowed to hear an undercover tape of a conversation between Illinois Democratic Sen. Roland Burris and the brother of impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Associated Press reports. A federal judge said today that he ...

Complaint against Ill. gov lists many characters

AP News - 1161 days ago
An alphabet soup of unidentified characters in complaint against Illinois governorThe criminal complaint alleging schemes by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to trade a U.S. Senate seat and other favors for personal gain alludes to a host of unidentified characters, none of whom ...
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