suntimes.com - 1/14/2009
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Sun-Times exclusive: Federal authorities used a video camera as part of their cache of tools to investigate Gov. Blagojevich in the final weeks of 2008 before his arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. The camera, which likely was remote-controlled, was trained on the Friends of ...
suntimes.com - 1/13/2009
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Barack Obama jogged only slightly ahead of Rod
Blagojevich across the news landscape of the past month,...
the glistening horizon of a new Camelot ahead, perhaps, but the jagged outline of the clouted city not far behind. Obama and Blago are more than ...
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Obama, Blago flip sides of Bizarro plotline
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 1/14/2009
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Posted by Tribune staff at 11:45 a.m.; last
updated at 3:35 p.m. Rodblagojevich5 SPRINGFIELD---The Illinois Senate took...
an oath today to be sworn in as jurors in the historic impeachment trial of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, hours after he made his first ...
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Senate takes oath as Blagojevich impeachment jurors | ...
suntimes.com - 1/8/2009
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Arya's memo says Blagojevich is good dad, great
guy but ineffective, emotionally unstable chief executive SPRINGFIELD ...
When former Chicago television broadcaster Bob Arya joined Gov. Blagojevich's staff as a senior advisor in November 2006, the ...
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Ex-advisor to panel: Order Blago to get psych ...
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Smile! You’re on Blago Camera
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... With a hocus pocus — you’re in focus, it’s your lucky day … Or perhaps not so lucky . Federal investigators used more surveillance equipment and in more places than first thought in their investigation of Rod Blagojevich, including a video camera installation at the Friends of Blagojevich offices. They used the equipment to ensure that everyone who conversed with Blagojevich and his staff could be identified on the bugs and to have a record of their visits. It’s a lesson they learned from similar investigations into the Mob: Joseph Ways, former No. 2 at the Chicago FBI ...
Blagojevich scandal? “Let’s go to the video tape…”
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Capuchin monkeys with flaming chainsaws, that’s what:
Federal authorities used a video camera as part of their cache of tools to investigate Gov. Blagojevich in the final weeks of 2008 before his arrest, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
The camera, which likely was remote-controlled, was trained on the Friends of Blagojevich offices, 4147 N. Ravenswood, to help FBI agents identify individuals entering and leaving the campaign offices — and to identify who was talking on bugs agents covertly planted inside. ...
Feds play candid camera with Gov. Blagojevich
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... recorded because he called Blagojevich's campaign office Dec. 3 to discuss his preferences for the seat. Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on charges he schemed to trade official actions, including President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, for campaign cash and other perks. Joseph Ways, former No. 2 at the Chicago FBI office who now works for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, said it's typical that when bugs are planted a camera is installed on an outdoor pole. Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1376431,...
Blagojevich Gets Radio Host Gig As Campaign Office Closes (And Emanuel Letter Pops Up)
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... Just as the campaign office of the disgraced former governor-- the one that federal investigators bugged-- is about to go back on the market, Blagojevich is getting a crack at hosting his own radio show. ...
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