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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 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.

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.

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 arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges is the latest in a long list of high-profile cases for Patrick Fitzgerald. As the U.S. attorney from Chicago — and son of an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his first in-depth interview since his arrest on corruption charges, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tells TODAY's Amy Robach he is boycotting his impeachment trial because the rules do not allow ...

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 ...