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11 Execs, 6 Foreign Firms Caught in Honey Sting
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- U.S. consumers stand a better chance of buying honey free of drugs, chemicals and other illegal contaminants because investigators from several federal agencies have scooped up some of the biggest players in the sticky, international honey-laundering maze. A 70-page indictment, released in Chicago by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, reads like Cliffs Notes for a spy novel: smuggling, bogus shipping papers, phony lab tests, shipments to Chicago warehouses and small honey-packing plants in Washington's Cascade Mountains. All that's missing is the sex. Eleven Chinese and German ...
Rod Blagojevich Seeks 'Vindication,' Says No to Any Plea Deal
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Friday he is "determined to seek vindication" in a second trial after a Chicago jury deadlocked on 23 of 24 corruption-related counts, including a charge that he attempted to sell an appointment to Barack Obama's Senate seat. Blagojevich said he would not accept a plea agreement from the government -- not that there is any evidence that one has been offered. "I've done absolutely nothing wrong," Blagojevich told NBC's "Today" show. "This is a persecution by a prosecutor who for six years tried to persecute me." As for his blunt talk in recorded phone ...
The Blagojevich Case: Who Won?
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- At first blush, Rod Blagojevich appeared almost Houdini-like, slipping out from under a weight of charges that seemed almost certain to bury the former Illinois governor. A federal jury in downtown Chicago convicted him Tuesday on only one of 24 corruption counts -- one that involved lying to FBI agents in 2005. It deadlocked on the 23 others, including a key one -- that Blagojevich had tried to sell the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Blagojevich vowed to appeal what he called the "nebulous" one count, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. The ...
The Blagojevich Trial: Layers of Meaning to the Non-Verdict Verdict
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhatever else it means, the desultory end Tuesday to the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ensures we are stuck with the knucklehead at least through most of 2011. He won't be going to prison anytime soon for the one (of 24) counts for which he was convicted after a multimillion dollar trial. But he won't be receding into history, either, on account of a prompt decision by federal prosecutors to declare they intend to retry him for allegedly trying to sell former President Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. Think Blagojevich I was a barnburner? ...
Federal Jury Convicts Blagojevich on Only 1 Count
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- A federal jury in Chicago today convicted ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on just one count but deadlocked on 23 others, including the allegation that he tried to sell President Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. The former governor could face up to five years in prison on the one conviction, lying to federal agents. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said his office planned to retry the case soon. "For all practical purposes, we are in the mode of being close to jury selection for a retrial," Fitzgerald said. Outside the courthouse, Blagojevich insisted, "I didn't break any ...
Star Attorney's Reputation Is on the Line in Blago Trial
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Aug. 15) -- When he announced the charges in late 2008, Chicago's U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, came at Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with all the bravado of Eliot Ness going after Al Capone in the movie "The Untouchables." He told a throng of reporters that Blagojevich had embarked on a "corruption crime spree" and added, with a touch of the melodramatic, that the Democratic governor's crimes "would make Lincoln turn over in his grave." Blagojevich responded by hitting the talk show circuit, calling the charges unfounded and criticizing Fitzgerald. Kiichiro Sato, AP U.S. Attorney ...
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 ...
Patrick Fitzgerald Seeks More Time to Return Blagojevich Indictment
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a potentially worrisome development for the incoming Obama administration, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked a federal judge for an extension of the deadline to return an indictment against disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on charges of official corruption. Fitzgerald filed a motion in federal court today seeking an additional 90 days during which he will continue to investigate the governor. If the motion is granted, which seems likely, Fitzgerald will have until early April before he has to bring charges against Blagojevich.In the court filing, Fitzgerald said that ...
Blogging Blago: Is Jesse Jackson Jr. Telling the Truth?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyYesterday, it was revealed that Jesse Jackson Jr. was "Candidate No. 5" in Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal complaint against Illinois Governor (Hot) Rod Blagojevich. At first blush, and despite Fitzgerald's repeated warnings not to do so, many Americans assumed the worst of Jackson Jr. After all, the complaint detailed a possible offer of cash (by either Candidate No. 5 or those representing him) in exchange for Barack Obama's former Senate seat. But late in the day, new details had emerged about the matter, and Mr. Jackson, who was never coy about his ambition to be appointed to the Senate ...
Another Report of Barack Obama Meeting with Illinois Governor Surfaces
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOn day two of the pay-for-appointment scandal involving disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, more reports independently confirming a meeting between Obama and the governor about that vacant seat came to light. When the scandal broke yesterday, Obama made brief comments denying ever meeting with Blagojevich or anyone on his staff about the vacancy and denying knowledge that Blagojevich was essentially offering the appointment for sale to the highest bidder. That statement contradicted Obama's own chief political strategist, David ...
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