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By John O. Membrino - AOL News(July 2) -- Rod Blagojevich may have been freaking out about his family's finances and how to pay for his daughter's college tuition, as federal wiretaps played at his corruption trial indicate. But that didn't stop him and his wife from dropping more than $400,000 on tailored suits, furs and other clothes while he was Illinois governor, court records show. A federal agent presented documents in a Chicago courtroom Thursday detailing six years of lavish spending, The Associated Press reported, including several instances when Blagojevich spent more than $10,000 a day on suits. On one ...
Filling Obama's Senate Seat: Two Elections on Tap for November?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyCHICAGO -- The story on replacing Barack Obama in the Senate is taking yet another unusual twist. A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling -- little noticed when it was issued on June 16 -- is forcing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to hold an election on Nov. 2 to fill the remainder of President Obama's Senate term. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is fighting the ruling, asking the appellate panel to reconsider because it will cause massive voter confusion to elect a lame duck senator who would serve at most a few weeks. The Senate would be out of session on some of those weeks because of the ...
The Rod Blagojevich Trial: Battle Over Wiretap Tapes Will Shape Outcome
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe freak show that is the federal corruption trial of Rod Blagojevich has come to Chicago. Jury selection starts Thursday. Some 700 poor burghers are lined up for duty. Only 12 will get to make their judgment known. And so the city known for its "stormy, husky, brawling... big shoulders" is set to embark upon months-long heavy lifting in bluster and bluff over a case that presents an odd confluence of tabloid cheesiness, political shenanigans, and legal nuance. Accused, among other things, of trying to sell President Barack Obama's old Senate seat after the 2008 election, the brash and ...
Report: Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Used Staff in 'Public Campaign' for Obama's Senate Seat
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA report by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) says Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. used his congressional staff to mount a "public campaign" to be appointed by then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill Barack Obama's open U.S. Senate seat. On the Jackson matter, the OCE report said, "In the course of conducting this review, the OCE learned that staff resources of the Representative's Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Illinois, offices were used to mount a 'public campaign' to secure the Representative's appointment to the U.S. Senate." The Department of Justice has asked the House Committee on ...
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