1 day ago · Blagojevich, who was the Democratic governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009, was removed from office and later convicted of charges that included a scheme to sell an appointment to fill the vacant ...

15 hours ago · The U.S. constitution puts few restrictions on holding federal office, meaning Blagojevich would be free to run for his old congressional seat he held from 1997 to 2003. The ex-governor collects a $15,000 annual pension from his years in congress but after his 2011 conviction, he was barred from collecting the roughly $65,000 per year pension ...

1 day ago · Blagojevich was released from prison in 2020 after Trump commuted his sentence. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pardoning Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was ...

18 hours ago · Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included trying to ... Heart Month — At the Cook County Building at noon with United Way of Metro Chicago to celebrate “211 Day,” a free, ...

1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.. The Republican president called the Democratic former governor, who once appeared on Trump’s reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice,” “a very fine person” and said the …

1 day ago · Rod Blagojevich: Why did Trump just free a jailed Democrat? "I'm just not giving it up… for nothing," said Blagojevich, who was known for his love of the camera.

15 hours ago · Blagojevich maintained that what the FBI caught on wiretapped calls was merely a “routine political deal” – an argument mirrored by attorneys for the ex-governor’s political nemesis ...

1 day ago · Blagojevich was convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell a Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Trump commuted the former governor's sentence in 2020.

Feb 19, 2020 · Rod Blagojevich walked out of prison Tuesday after President Donald Trump cut short the 14-year prison sentence handed to the former Illinois governor for political corruption.

1 day ago · President Trump signed a full pardon on Monday for Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011 in a scheme to sell a Senate seat being ...