dailyherald.com - 12/17/2008
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SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants taxpayers to pay for the high-profile defense lawyer he hired to represent him in state lawmakers impeachment proceedings. His lawyer, Edward Genson, filed that request with the impeachment panel investigating the governor and with Illinois Attorney ...
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Blagojevich To Taxpayers: Pay My Bill
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... top lawyer, authorize his defense of the governor, which would mean taxpayers would foot the tab.
Currently the governor is on his own to pay his legal bills.
The impeachment panel rejected the request. Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie said the members have no authority to do so and suggested he contact the attorney general.
Genson said he'd already done so. A spokeswoman for the attorney general said thereʼd be a response by tomorrow at the latest.
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Blagojevich To Taxpayers: Pay My Bill
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... lawyer, authorize his defense of the governor, which would mean taxpayers would foot the tab.
Currently the governor is on his own to pay his legal bills.
The impeachment panel rejected the request. Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie said the members have no authority to do so and suggested he contact the attorney general.
Genson said he'd already done so. A spokeswoman for the attorney general said thereÊüd be a response by tomorrow at the latest.
Read the entire article.
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