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Blagojevich arrested, charged. Obama: No contact with gov. on seat replacement. wls. By ABC7. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. CHICAGO Accused of trying to sell the Senate seat left open by Pres ...

On the evening of Blagojevich’s arrest, Scott Weiner turned on the TV news while eating dinner. He’d worked late the night before at The Fifty/50, the bar he owns on Division Street, ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by ...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was roused from bed, arrested and handcuffed after prosecutors said he was caught on wiretaps audaciously scheming to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for cash ...

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Gov. Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested at their homes this morning in a probe involving the governor's quest to fill Sen. Barack Obama's ...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.

Blagojevich arrested, charged. Obama: No contact with gov. on seat replacement. kfsn. By ABC30. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. CHICAGO Accused of trying to sell the Senate seat left open by Pres ...

Gov. Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday morning in what prosecutors describe as a "political corruption crime spree" that included a conspiracy to benefit from selecting Obama’s Senate successor.

Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree,” he said. Fitzgerald said Blagojevich’s “conduct would make ...

Rod Blagojevich is Arrested 20. The Last Cabrini-Green Tower is Demolished 21. A Massive Blizzard Paralyzes the City 22. Operation Greylord is Revealed 23. Jane Byrne is Elected Mayor 24.

Will Blagojevich Arrest Affect Obama? President-elect Barack Obama comes from the same city and state as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and it was the Obama seat in the Senate that Blagojevich is ...