President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011 ...

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Throughout Rod Blagojevich’s race against my late mother, Judy Baar Topinka, for the post of Illinois governor in 2005, campaign advertisements would state, “What is she thinking?” ...

Blagojevich also maintains a presence on Cameo, the video website that allows users to pay for personalized video messages from celebrities and charges $100 for his work.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he is "profoundly grateful" to President Donald Trump for pardoning him. Blagojevich spent nearly eight years in prison on corruption charges, for ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump on Monday, nearly five years after his sentence was commuted. Blagojevich, convicted of trying to sell the Senate ...

Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted ...