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Feds arrest Illinois Gov. Blagojevich for trying to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat
hotair.com - 12/9/2008
Feds arrest Illinois Gov. Blagojevich for trying to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat
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Weekly Standard Blog:  Blagojevich Says He Cannot Tell a Lie

The Wide Awake Cafe:  Ye Gods and Little Fishes! There’s Corruption in Chicago!

Crooks and Liars:  Bagging Blagojevich or How the Right Learned to Love Patrick Fitzgerald

chicagobreakingnews.com - 12/9/2008
Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody
— chicagobreakingnews.com — 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 ... (more) Source: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody

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chicagotribune.com - 12/9/2008
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor -
— chicagotribune.com — UPDATE: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges. Click here for the latest updates from the Breaking News Center . A three-year federal ... (more) Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor -

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chicagotribune.com - 12/5/2008
Feds taped Blagojevich -
— chicagotribune.com — Federal investigators recently made covert tape recordings of Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the most dramatic step yet in their corruption investigation of him and his administration, the Tribune has learned. As part of this undercover effort, one of the ... (more) Feds taped Blagojevich -
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Blagojevich Says He Cannot Tell a Lie
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Allahpundit has a great thread on the unfolding Blagojevich story. This video of a press conference yesterday is priceless: ...

Ye Gods and Little Fishes! There’s Corruption in Chicago!
The Wide Awake Cafe — I never saw that coming! So Illinois Dem. Gov. Rod Blagojevich really didn’t care about those fired employees camping out in the Republic Windows and Doors Company? Meanwhile, in our little red neck part of the country. (who voted for McCain) This morning I went to the doctor and had a fasting blood test and was really hungry and thirsty afterwards so I went to Chick-fil-A for lunch. When I drove up to the window to pay, the employee told me that my lunch had already been paid for by the person in the car in front ...

Bagging Blagojevich or How the Right Learned to Love Patrick Fitzgerald
Crooks and Liars — ... Fitzgerald simply deemed "staggering" led the right-wing Hot Air blog among others to proclaim "Fitzmas arrives early this year." Of course, when the crime was obstruction and perjury over the outing covert CIA operative Valerie Plame as political payback by the Bush administration, the mouthpieces of the right slandered the Republican Fitzgerald as "politically motivated", "disgusting", "a lunatic" - and worse. ...

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