Monday, June 27, 2011

Buh-bye, Blago

Off to the Crossbar Hilton:
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted Monday on 17 of the 20 public corruption charges against him related to his attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat held by Barack Obama before he resigned to become president.
All of those counts carry a maximum of 20 years, and he was convicted the first time around of lying to a Feebie, which is a 5 year charge.

Probably get them all concurrent, but even so, Blago's going away for a long time (once his appeals are exhausted).

Seems to me that a lot of Illinois governors do the "two terms in the statehouse and one in the penitentiary" bit. George Ryan, Blago's predecessor, is still in prison. Otto Kerner and Dan Walker also went to prison.
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1 comment:

  1. Cirze6/28/2011 1:45 PM

    Might make one a little bit wary of pols there.

    Thanks for the good news.

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