At 6:15 a.m., Gov. Rod Blagojevich is roused from his Ravenswood Manor home, arrested, handcuffed and hauled before a federal magistrate on sweeping charges that he conspired to sell his office ...

Nearly five years earlier, Trump, in his first term, commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence, calling it a “tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence” at the time. Blagojevich was arrested ...

Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges in 2008, impeached and removed from office in 2009, and convicted in 2011 on 18 counts, including wire fraud and attempted extortion.

Former head of the FBI’s field office in Chicago, Rob Grant, spoke with WGN News in 2019 about the day of Blagojevich’s arrest some 11 years earlier. “My job was to wake him up and not ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich took a shot at Democratic firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's arrest earlier this week, claiming she pretended to be handcuffed while he gets "arrested ...

Just weeks after Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI in 2008, and charged in an expansive corruption case, the Illinois House voted to impeach him followed by a senate conviction, thereby removing ...

Blagojevich, 64, was arrested in December 2008 on an array of corruption charges, including the proposed sale of President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat and trying to shake down executives ...

Illinois Supreme Court Disbars Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich The court's decision was hardly a surprise and Blagojevich, whose license was suspended indefinitely after his 2008 arrest, did not fight ...

As disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich stood in front of TV cameras this week and declared himself a political prisoner finally home from eight years of exile, his former running mate watched in ...

Except Fitzgerald had Blagojevich arrested for conspiracy and attempted extortion in 2008, three years after Comey had departed from the Justice Department to work for defense contractor Lockheed ...

- Dec. 9, 2007: Federal agents arrest Blagojevich on corruption charges at his Chicago home. - January 2009: The Illinois House votes 114-1 to impeach Blagojevich, the first Illinois governor in ...