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Published 12/10/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - The governor of Illinois was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to sell an appointment to president-elect Barack Obama's recently vacated US Senate seat in what prosecutors called "a political corruption crime spree."
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