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I guess that depends on if Blago has anything on Obama to blackmail him with.
I guess that depends on if Blago has anything on Obama to blackmail him with.
Look for a pardon the day after the election. Rezko's, too.
Blagojevich gets 14 years.......
The twice-elected Democrat is now the second consecutive former Illinois governor to be sentenced to prison, and the fourth Illinois governor in the last four decades. His Republican predecessor, George Ryan, is serving a sentence of 6 1/2 years, also for corruption.
He was initially elected in 2002 on a platform of cleaning up Illinois politics in the midst of federal investigations that led to the prosecution and conviction of Ryan.
Blagojevich's sentencing came just days before his 55th birthday on Saturday, and nearly three years to the day of his arrest at dawn on Dec. 9, 2008, when the startled governor asked one federal agent, "Is this a joke?"
FBI wiretap evidence proved decisive. In the most notorious recording, Blagojevich is heard crowing that his chance to name someone to Obama's seat was "f---ing golden" and he wouldn't let it go "for f---ing nothing."
Blagojevich will have to share a cell with other inmates and he must work an eight-hour-a-day menial job possibly scrubbing toilets or mopping floors at just 12 cents an hour.
I guess that depends on if Blago has anything on Obama to blackmail him with.
Look for a pardon the day after the election. Rezko's, too.
FBI wiretap evidence proved decisive. In the most notorious recording, Blagojevich is heard crowing that his chance to name someone to Obama's seat was "f---ing golden" and he wouldn't let it go "for f---ing nothing."
Blagojevich Convicted, But Was He Really Guilty?
Had Blagojevich actually followed through with the sale of a Senate seat, Fitzgeralds heavy-handed prosecutorial approach might have been justified. But in light of the fact that no seat was sold, and that these appointments are regularly used for political benefit, the reasonable doubt that a crime was actually committed would appear to be overwhelming.
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I'll bet he either gets a pardon or a commute.
I guess that depends on if Blago has anything on Obama to blackmail him with.
Look for a pardon the day after the election. Rezko's, too.
If Obama loses.
Look for a pardon the day after the election. Rezko's, too.
If Obama loses.
Even if he wins, he won't be campaigning any longer. US look out!
FBI wiretap evidence proved decisive. In the most notorious recording, Blagojevich is heard crowing that his chance to name someone to Obama's seat was "f---ing golden" and he wouldn't let it go "for f---ing nothing."
Blagojevich Convicted, But Was He Really Guilty?
Had Blagojevich actually followed through with the sale of a Senate seat, Fitzgeralds heavy-handed prosecutorial approach might have been justified. But in light of the fact that no seat was sold, and that these appointments are regularly used for political benefit, the reasonable doubt that a crime was actually committed would appear to be overwhelming.
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I would ALMOST have to agree with that. But his case went before TWO juries with the first being a hung jury voting to convict 11-1. And they heard the testimony first hand.
But I also think Blagojevich should have been allowed to play the WHOLE tapes like he asked, not just what Fitzgerald wanted the jury to hear.
