First, Illinois stops doing business with Bank of America, then the governor tried to withhold money to help the Chicago Tribune unless the media company fires certain editors that are known to be critical of the government. Now, Illinois’ governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested!
Geez. On top of all that, the governor is arrested for trying to “monetize” Obama’s now vacant senator seat. A statement by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant said it best:
Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism
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I knew there was something unethical since your post yesterday about the BofA deal!!
All these news is pretty crazy!
I was just coming back to comment on the other post about this. Awesome.
I think those of us living in Chicago/Illinois are perhaps less surprised than the rest of the country, heh.
I must be in the dark somewhere but what happened before in Illinois? Everyone seems to be making jokes about Illinois being known for corruption.
Just take a look at the “controversies” section of his wikipedia page. It isn’t exactly short.
Funny lot in Chicago, or maybe just very stupid and unethical.
Mike: Thanks for the lead. I look forward to a fun read.