Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterIllinois governor arrested for trying to sell Obama senate seat (AFP)
Published 12/9/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday for what a prosecutor described as "a political corruption crime spree," and was charged with conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama's recently vacated US Senate seat.
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