cnn.com - 12/23/2008
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A report about Obama's aides alleged contact with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is due this week.
chicagotribune.com - 12/22/2008
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A key figure in Gov. Rod Blagojevich 's
alleged scheme to sell a U.S. Senate seat has...
sought immunity from federal authorities in return for his cooperation in their ongoing probe, the Tribune has learned. Raghuveer P. Nayak, an Oak Brook businessman ...
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google.com - 12/24/2008
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Blagojevich questioning takes up Obama's time By JENNIFER
LOVEN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE 8 hours ago WASHINGTON...
(AP) President-elect Barack Obama has said all along that neither he nor his team was involved in any eye-popping dealmaking over filling ...
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The Associated Press: Blagojevich questioning takes up ...
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Obama Blagojevich Report: "A Lot About Nothing"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Two Democratic officials tell CNN that the "long-awaited report about aides to President-elect Barack Obama alleged contact with the office of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will largely exonerate Obama's transition team." ...
Obama Blagojevich Report: "A Lot About Nothing"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Two Democratic officials tell CNN that the "long-awaited report about aides to President-elect Barack Obama alleged contact with the office of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will largely exonerate Obama's transition team." ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... The Obama transition team is expected today to release their internal report on staff communications with Rod Blagojevich and his office, and which is reported to absolve Rahm Emanuel and other staffers from any allegations of impropriety. "You're going to see this is a lot about nothing," a Democratic source told CNN. ...
Transition office releases Blagojevich report
Political Animal —
... (.pdf), and after reading it, everything we'd heard from Obama and his team was completely true. Obama never spoke to Blagojevich or his office about the Senate vacancy; no one on Obama's staff ever had any inappropriate discussions with the governor or his office; and no one Obama's staff ever had any indication that Blagojevich was engaged in alleged corruption. A Democratic official told CNN this morning, " You're going to see this is a lot about nothing ." That turned out to be completely right. I hesitate to use the word "exonerate," since it implies that one is accused ...
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Since everyone else has already noted the salient points from Rod Blagojevich's Epic Fail -- the appalling idea of selling a Senate seat, the utter boneheadedness, the total lack of conscience -- I'll just take that all as read, and ...
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CNN: Obama and Blagojevich: 'A lot about nothing,' sources say
Two Democratic officials are predicting that the long-awaited report about aides to President-elect Barack Obama alleged contact with the office of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ...
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