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Offline thundley4

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Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« on: December 09, 2008, 08:26:37 AM »

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A source said today that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The U.S. attorney's office would not confirm the information.

A Blagojevich spokesman said he was unaware of the development. "Haven't heard anything -- you are first to call," Lucio Guerrero said in an e-mail.
Developing

Edit: Just heard on FNC that he may have tried to sell Obamas vacant senate seat.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2008, 09:09:20 AM »
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

I bet the folks at BofA are feelling schadenfruede.  (not the moderator.) :tongue:
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2008, 09:10:37 AM »

well, this is huge.  this guy is probably toast.

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Blagojevich Selling Obama's Senate Seat?   [Byron York]

The criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich includes the following allegations concerning Blagojevich's actions (and those of Blagojevich's chief of staff John Harris) to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat:

    By law, after the President-elect’s resignation of his position as a U.S. Senator, which was effective on November 16, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH has sole authority to appoint his replacement for the two years remaining of the President-elect’s Senate term. During the course of this investigation, agents have intercepted a series of communications regarding the efforts of ROD BLAGOJEVICH, JOHN HARRIS, and others to misuse this power to obtain personal gain, including financial gain, for ROD BLAGOJEVICH and his family.  In particular, ROD BLAGOJEVICH has been intercepted conspiring to trade the senate seat for particular positions that the President-elect has the power to appoint (e.g. the Secretary of Health and Human Services). ROD BLAGOJEVICH has also been intercepted conspiring to sell the Senate seat in exchange for his wife’s placement on paid corporate boards or ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s placement at a private foundation in a significant position with a substantial salary. ROD BLAGOJEVICH has also been intercepted conspiring to sell the Senate seat in exchange for millions of dollars in funding for a non-profit organization that he would start and that would employ him at a substantial salary after he left the governorship.


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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2008, 09:21:07 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on December 09, 2008, 09:14:32 AM
Gee.
A crooked politician from Illinois.
Who would have thought?
Yes, there must be another explanation.
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9. OK, one day he threatens Bank of America, next day he is arrested.
   
He may be crooked, I don't know, but I think he might be being Siegelmanned.

http://www.kentucky.com/103/story/620572.html

They (Bushco) don't even try to hide it anymore, do they?
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2008, 09:32:02 AM »
So, who gets to choose Obama's replacement, or does he still have that power even now?
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2008, 09:34:13 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on December 09, 2008, 09:10:37 AM
well, this is huge.  this guy is probably toast.


Yow, if that is what's going on this is going to spatter sewage all over the Dems!  Oh, wait, what am I thinking, that would require a free and independent press... 
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2008, 09:48:39 AM »
Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on December 09, 2008, 09:32:02 AM
So, who gets to choose Obama's replacement, or does he still have that power even now?

the next highest ranking elected state official that isn't in jail, I suppose.   :-)

seriously, I would assume that blagowhatever retains that authority until he resigns or is otherwise removed from office. 

I have read in a couple of places this morning that jesse jackson jr was lobbying heavily for that senate seat. :uhsure:
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Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, chief of staff, arrested
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2008, 09:49:14 AM »
Illinois Gov. Blagojevich, chief of staff, arrested
Breadth of corruption "staggering"

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning.

Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were awakened in their residences and transported to FBI headquarters in Chicago.

In one charge related to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama, prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought appointment for himseld as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union, in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rod-blagojevich-1209,0,7997804.story

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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2008, 09:56:01 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on December 09, 2008, 08:26:37 AM
Developing

Edit: Just heard on FNC that he may have tried to sell Obamas vacant senate seat.


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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2008, 10:05:47 AM »
It's.....................................

FITZMAS 



 
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“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.



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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2008, 10:07:30 AM »
I notice no mention of his political affiliation.

If he were a Rethug, where would that bit of information be in the story, do you think?  :whatever:
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2008, 10:14:03 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on December 09, 2008, 10:07:30 AM
I notice no mention of his political affiliation.

If he were a Rethug, where would that bit of information be in the story, do you think?  :whatever:

Usually preceeding the first use of his name - in the headline even.

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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2008, 10:16:58 AM »

while most of this seems to be about the attempt to sell obama's seat, I also seem to recall that rezko's sentencing was delayed before the election, and that the conjecture was that it was because he was cooperating with the feds. 

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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2008, 10:20:17 AM »
Quote from: BadCat on December 09, 2008, 09:14:32 AM
Gee.
A crooked politician from Illinois.
Who would have thought?

Has there ever been an honest one? I mean ever.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2008, 10:24:02 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on December 09, 2008, 09:10:37 AM
well, this is huge.  this guy is probably toast.

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In particular, ROD BLAGOJEVICH has been intercepted conspiring to trade the senate seat for particular positions that the President-elect has the power to appoint (e.g. the Secretary of Health and Human Services).
I wonder how he was planning to get a job offer from Obama, unless he thought that Obama had in mind a favoured successor.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2008, 10:27:49 AM »
Quote from: bijou on December 09, 2008, 10:24:02 AM
I wonder how he was planning to get a job offer from Obama, unless he thought that Obama had in mind a favoured successor.

Blackmail. :lmao:
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2008, 10:34:07 AM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on December 09, 2008, 10:20:17 AM
Has there ever been an honest one? I mean ever.

Well, Lincoln was from Illinois, and his nickname was "Honest Abe." Other than that, I don't think so.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2008, 10:34:54 AM »

at least one of the candidates for obama's senate seat was willing to play ball, apparently.  this could get deep.  quick. :-)

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According to the affidavit from prosecutors, Mr. Blagojevich told an adviser last week that he might “get some (money) upfront, maybe” from one of the candidates hoping to replace Mr. Obama. That person was identified only as “Candidate 5.”

In an earlier recorded conversation, prosecutors say, Mr. Blagojevich said he was approached by an associate of “Candidate 5” with an offer of $500,000 in exchange for the Senate seat.

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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2008, 10:36:18 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on December 09, 2008, 10:34:07 AM
Well, Lincoln was from Illinois, and his nickname was "Honest Abe." Other than that, I don't think so.

he was a republican.  it matters. :wink:  :-)
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2008, 10:37:36 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on December 09, 2008, 10:16:58 AM
while most of this seems to be about the attempt to sell obama's seat, I also seem to recall that rezko's sentencing was delayed before the election, and that the conjecture was that it was because he was cooperating with the feds. 



Yes, I remember that.  I wonder if Rezko rolled on Blagojevich.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2008, 10:37:51 AM »
Wonder what Obama's involvement is in all of this....... :evillaugh:
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2008, 10:39:29 AM »
Quote from: bijou on December 09, 2008, 10:24:02 AM
I wonder how he was planning to get a job offer from Obama, unless he thought that Obama had in mind a favoured successor.

can't we all predict the soon to be released statement from the Office of the President-Elect?  "That's not the Rod Blagojevich that I knew", followed immediately by the sound of a body squishing under a bus.  :rotf:
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2008, 10:43:21 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on December 09, 2008, 10:07:30 AM
I notice no mention of his political affiliation.

If he were a Rethug, where would that bit of information be in the story, do you think?  :whatever:

Looks like even the NY Times forgot to mention it until they modified it.

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HT: NRO.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2008, 10:52:27 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on December 09, 2008, 10:43:21 AM
Looks like even the NY Times forgot to mention it until they modified it.

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HT: NRO.

My husband sent me the link from MSN's front page before it was corrected for Blagojevich's party affiliation but it did say this on page two:

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Blagojevich took the chief executive's office in 2003 as a reformer promising to clean up Ryan's mess.

Ryan, a Republican, is serving a 6-year prison sentence after being convicted on racketeering and fraud charges. A decade-long investigation began with the sale of driver's licenses for bribes and led to the conviction of dozens of people who worked for Ryan when he was secretary of state and governor.
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Re: Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2008, 10:57:25 AM »
The smoking gun has the FBI affidavit

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1209081rod1.html



another 20 pages at the link
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