Second Amendment Blog
Illinois Governor in Federal Custody
Posted by:Sebastian on 
Dec 9th, 2008 | 
Filed under: Crime
Never let it be said the FBI doesn’t occasionally do the right thing. I’m actually rather happy with the extent the FBI under Bush has gone after corruption.
UPDATE: Looks like he was trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat, without much success. I guess a slow economy hurts the corruption industry too:
A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.
Otherwise, Blagojevich considered appointing himself. The affidavit said that as late as Nov. 3, he told his deputy governor that if “they’re not going to offer me anything of value I might as well take it.”
And we elected a President from this cadre of corruption.
Related posts (automatically generated):
December 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I’m confused. Was the Governor of a major state elected without belonging to a political party? What news!
December 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
The Tribune mentioned his party……..7 paragraphs down.
December 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I somehow have the feeling that we won’t be hearing about any other Democrats getting indicted and/or arrested for their corrupt activities after Obama’s inauguration. Hopefully Charles Rangel and Chris Dodd will get some comeuppance before then.
December 9th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
As a CT resident I would LOVE to see Dodd go down. But then I worry Ned Lamont would fill his shoes.
December 9th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Merry Fitzmas.
(Stolen from Hot Air)
December 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
No, Fitzannukah…that means 7 more days of gifts!
December 9th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Link to the full indictment:
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2008/12/blagos-going-down.html
Such a classy individual Chicago voted in.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
The other problem right now, is that Blago is still the Guv. and can still appoint anybody he wants to the Senate, including himself.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Sen Pres Harry Reid said they won’t seat any appointment made by Blago, so that’s a done deal.
IL State special session Monday to vote on having a special election and maybe articles of impeachment.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:32 am
The real story here, is this is the “womb from which Obama was conceived.” The “Daley, Rezko, Blago, ” trinity is what gave him birth in the first place. Total corruption. Now we all know that “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, and who now has “absolute power”? We must stay alert.
December 11th, 2008 at 6:14 am
The pro-Obama media now seems to be all telling us that we’re all just supposed to believe instead that everybody in Chicago politics is corrupt except Obama, as if a guy who just emerged out from a sewer would not have even the slightest bit a stench on his body.